Description: Iztaccíhuatl's father sent Popocatépetl to war in Oaxaca, promising him his daughter as his wife if he returned. Iztaccíhuatl's father presumed he would not return and so arranged several suitors for his beloved daughter. When Iztaccíhuatl heard of this she killed herself with a dagger, because she knew that Popocatépetl would never survive in battle, and did not want to marry anyone else. When Popocatépetl returned, and discovered the death of his lover, he took her to the top of the mountain, hoping the cold would wake her, but instead, he froze. God covered them with snow and changed them into mountains. Iztaccíhuatl's mountain was called "La Mujer Dormida" ("The Sleeping Woman") because it bears a resemblance to a woman sleeping...
