The Weeping Woman

Some years before of the conquest, a woman used to appear crying during the night at Texcoco Lake,
saying: “Oh my children, where I will hide them?” That ghost was boding the fall of Tenochtitlan in
hands of conquerors. And the woman who crying was the goddess Chihuacoatl, the mother of Aztecs.

In the different ages, the myth of Chihuacoatl evolved adding other elements like: woman not
corresponded, the killer of her children, etc. But the principal fact always remained, the tears for her
children, until be known as “The weeping woman”.