 When Popocatépetl returned to find his love dead, he took her body to a spot outside Tenochtitlan and kneeled by her grave.The gods covered them with snow and changed them into mountains.Iztaccíhuatl's mountain is called "White Woman" (from Nahuatl "white" and "woman") because it resembles a woman lying on her back, and is often covered with snow — the peak is sometimes nicknamed "", "The Sleeping Woman".