Uitznauac or Uitzlampa, “Region of Thorns” (the South), was, as its name implied, a place of rather evil omen, for it was sometimes thought of as inhabited by Mictlan, Lord of the Dead. The Mexicans, dwelling in a plateau country where climatic conditions were temperate, probably regarded the tropics to the south as a region fatal to health, and generally insalubrious in character.
Ciuatlampa , “Region of Women” (the West), was the place to which those women who died in their first childbed ( Civapipiltin or Ciuateteô ) went after death, and as such falls to be described in the section on