Ciuapipiltin - the five Cihuapipiltin ("Noble Women"), who "hate," "mock," and cast spells upon people, descended upon and resided at the crossroads (omaxac chaneque). During this time parents kept their children at home and people made offerings to the Cihuapipiltin at the crossroads (omaxac). The Cihuapipiltin were also known as Cihuateteo: angry, malevolent spirits of women who had died in their first childbirth with child in utero. They were female counterparts of warriors fallen in battle or on the sacrificial stone.