y comían solamente al medio día, y a la media noche bebían una mazamorra que se llamaba tlacuilolatulli, que quiere decir "mazamorra pintada", con una flor puesta encima, en el medio. Llamábase este ayuno "el ayuno de las flores".
\nTambién los que ayunaban sin dexar el chilli ni otras cosas sabrosas que suelen comer, comían una vez sola al mediodía. Otros ayunaban comiendo panes ázimos, esto es, que el maíz de que se hacía el pan que comían no se cocía con cal ante de molerlo, que esto es como hormentar, sino molían el maíz seco y de aquella harina hacían pan, y cocíanlo en el comal, y no comían chilli ni otra cosa con ello. No comían más que una vez al mediodía.
\nLlegado el quinto día era la fiesta deste dios. En esta fiesta uno se componía con los atavíos deste dios, como si fuera su imagen o persona, que significaba al mismo dios. Con éste hacían areito con cantares y con teponahuaztli1 y atambor. Llegando al mediodía desta fiesta descabezaban muchas codornices, derramando la sangre delante deste dios y de su imagen. Otros sangrábanse de las orejas delante dél. Otros traspasaban las lenguas con una punta de maguey, y por aquel agujero pasaban muchas mimbres delgadas, derramando sangre. También le hacían otras ofrendas en su templo. Hacían también una cerimonia que hacían cinco tamales. Son como panes redondos hechos de maíz, ni bien rollizos ni bien redondos, que se llamaban "pan de ayuno". Eran grandes, encima de los cuales iba una saeta hincada, que llamaban xúchmitl. Ésta era ofrenda de todo el pueblo. Los particulares que que[rían]
\nDebe decir teponaztli.↩
and they would only eat at noon. At midnight, they would drink a maize porridge that was called tlahcuilolatolli,1 which means “painted porridge,” with a flower placed on top, in the middle of it. This fasting was called “the fast of flowers.”
\nMoreover, those who fasted without refraining from eating chilli or any of the other tasty things that they usually eat would eat only once a day. Others fasted by eating unleavened bread, meaning that the maize used to make the bread that they ate was not boiled with quicklime before grinding it, which is a way of fermenting it. But instead they ground the dry maize, made bread with this flour, and cooked it on the comal; and they did not eat chilli or anything else with it. They only ate once a day, at noon.
\nWhen the fifth day came, it was the festival of this god. For this festival, one [man] was dressed in this god’s garments, as if he were his image or person—one who signified the god himself. They performed a dance with this [person], accompanied by songs, teponaztli,2 and a drum. At noon on this festival day, they beheaded many quails, pouring the blood before this god and his image. Others drew blood from their [outer] ears before him. Others pierced their tongues with a maguey thorn and passed many thin reeds through that hole, pouring out blood. They also made other offerings to him in his temple. They also performed a ceremony for which they made five tamales. These are like round loaves of bread made of maize, neither too thick nor too round, which were called “fasting bread.” They were large, with an arrow stuck on top, which they called xochmitl, This was an offering from the whole town. Those individuals who so wished
\ntlahcuilolatolli: painted atole (porridge). The Nahua meal is called atolli, which is maize-flour porridge and usually is quite watery. Written atole today, this porridge is still a staple food in Mexico.↩
teponaztli: teponahuaztli in LAGQ. LAGQ (1:91) points out that the word should read teponaztli.↩
in ie nepantla tonatiuh, tlacotonaloia, neçuoaia, tlacoqujxtiloia: yoã tlamanjliloia yn jteupan, macujltetl in qujchiujliaia, tamalli: mjtoaia tlacatlaqualli, cenca vevey ipan ycatiuh xuchmjtl:
\nyn aca quauhcaxitl ynjc conmanjliaia, yoan contoqujliaia oc no macuiltetl tamaltepitoton, mollotiuja: yoan vntetl tzoalli yiol poujia, no cecnj quauhcaxtica, mantivia, centetl tliltic, centetl tlatlauhquj.
\nAuh yn aca izqujtl, anoço necuzqujtl, anoço xonecujlli, papalotlaxcalli, iotlaxcalli, tzooallaxcalli, tzooalchimalli, tzooalmjtl, tzooalmaquaujtl, tzooalnenetl:
\nyoan noujian oalcaoaloia, in mamalti njcan mexico, moteneoa maltequjme, yn jxqujch techiaoalotoc, yn iautenoaque, yn iaotenco onoque, qujnoalcaoaia yn jnmalhoan, yn jntlaaxioan, in maltequjhoan, muchioaia: njcan qujnpiaia, yn calpixque, in cacalpixque.
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\nSome thus offered their offering upon wooden plates, and followed it with five more small tamales with a sauce. And [they offered] two cakes of amaranth seed dough, which served in place of rubber, one black, one red, resting in wooden bowls.
\nAnd some [offered] toasted maize, or toasted maize mixed in honey,1 or S-shaped tortillas, butterfly-shaped tortillas, tortillas of maize not softened in lime, tortillas of amaranth seed dough, amaranth seed dough cakes in the form of shields, arrows, swords, dolls.
\nAnd here, to Mexico, from everywhere, were brought captives, called “tribute-captives.” All who lay surrounding, those who held the enemy borders, those who dwelt on the enemy borders brought their captives, their prisoners here. [These] became their tribute-captives. The stewards, each of the stewards, guarded them here.
\nNecuzquitl reads necuizquitl in Real Palacio MS.↩