 According to tradition, a woman in labor was said to capture the spirit of her newborn child similar to the way a warrior captures his opponent in battle.These spirits are also associated with the west, the place where the sun sets each day.The "Cihuateteo" resided in a region in the west known as "Cihuatlampa", the “place of women.” Each day, they guided the sun into the west from noon until sunset, and are occasionally suggested to have even borne it through the underworld until it rose again.