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Diminutive of #Ixtaccihuatl#, which means "white woman" in Nahuatl from #iztac# "white" and #cihuatl# "woman". This was the name of a beautiful princess in Mexican legend who fell in love with the hero POPO, but died of grief when a messenger falsely reported that her lover had died in war. Popo carried her body to a hill, where she became the mountain Ixtaccihuatl, also known as "The Sleeping Woman" because it resembles a woman lying on her back.