Today was my first day in Tenochtitlan. While I was at the market buying food for myself, an old woman came up to me and asked me if I was a tourist. I said yes. She told me that she would take me to her house, and tell me all about the Aztec culture and the city, when I went to her house I saw a pregnant woman sitting on the couch. She looked up at me, then quickly looked down and ran out of the room. Barbara (The woman I met earlier) explained to me that, that was her daughter, and in Aztec culture pregnant women were recognized as warriors for bringing a new generation, cannot look at the color red or else the baby will be born upside down (which is why she ran away from me), can 't chew gum, or the baby will have a swollen mouth, cannot