se llaman quetzalli: iban atadas en los cabellos del medio de la cabeza, recogidos como una gavilla de todo lo alto de la cabeza. Tiene una orejeras de oro. Está cubierto con una manta azul, y sobre el azul una red negra de manera quel azul se parece por las mallas de la red. Tenía una flocadura esta manta por todas las orillas, en la cual estaban texidas unas flores. Tenía en la garganta de los pies unas como calzuelas de cuero amarillo de las cuales colgaban unos caracolitos mariscos. Tenía en los pies unas cotaras muy curiosas y labradas. Tenía una rodela teñida de amarillo con una mancha en el medio, de azul claro, que no tiene ningún labor. Tenía en la mano derecha su báculo con que van camino.
\nEste dios Nappatecuhtli era el dios de los que hacen esteras de juncias, y es uno de los que llaman tlaloques. Dicen que éste es el que inventó el arte de hacer esteras, y por eso le adoran por dios los deste oficio que hacen esteras, que llaman petates, y hacen sentaderos que llaman icpales, y hacen cañizos de juncias que llaman tolcuextli. Decían que por la virtud deste dios nacían y se criaban las juncias y juncos y cañas con que ellos hacen su oficio. Y porque tenían que este dios producía también las lluvias, hacíanle fiesta donde le reverenciaban y adoraban y le demandaban que diese las cosas que suele dar, que es agua, juncias, etcétera.
\nEn su fiesta compraban un esclavo para sacrificarle delante dél, ataviándole con los ornamentos deste dios, como que fuese su imagen. Éste, el día que había de morir, después de compuesto como es[tá]
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"485db0e8-7279-420b-8193-7392eb592f7a","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"which were called _quetzalli_; these were tied to the hair at the center of his head, gathered up like a bun at the very top of his head. He has some gold ear ornaments. He is dressed in a blue cape with a black net over the blue, so that the blue [color] appears through the holes of the net.[^41] This cape had a fringe all along the edges, on which some flowers were embroidered. He wore around his ankles some sort of yellow leather straps from which hung some small seashells. He wore on his feet some very curiously embroidered sandals. He had a round shield that was dyed yellow, with a light-blue spot at the center and without any embroidery. He held in his right hand his walking staff that accompanies them on their way.\n\n#### Chapter twenty, which tells of the god named Nappateuctli\n\t\nThis god Nappateuctli was the god of those who make reed mats and is one of the so-called Tlaloques. They say that he is the one who invented the art of making mats, and that is why those who practice this craft of making reed mats, which they call _petates_, worship him as a god, And they [also] make chairs that they call _icpales_, and they make reed frames that they call _tolcuextli_,[^42] They said that, through the power of this god, the reeds, rushes, and canes with which they practice their craft are born and raised. And because they believed that this god also produced the rains, they used to celebrate a festival for him, in which they revered and worshiped him and asked him to give [them] the things that he is wont to give, such as water, reeds, et cetera. \n\nFor his festival, they would buy a slave to be sacrificed in front of him, dressing him up in this god’s adornments, as if he were his image. On the day that this one was to die, and after attiring him as has been said, \n\n\n[^41]: The switch between present and past tense in this and in other sections of the Florentine Codex is revealing of the dynamic process of translating the original text into Spanish. Here, Sahagún and his Indigenous coworkers are transcribing the oral description in Nahuatl of the pictures representing the god, a passage that is suddenly narrated in the present tense.\n\n[^42]: These were rough _petates_ made with a water reed called _atolin_.","html":"which were called quetzalli; these were tied to the hair at the center of his head, gathered up like a bun at the very top of his head. He has some gold ear ornaments. He is dressed in a blue cape with a black net over the blue, so that the blue [color] appears through the holes of the net.1 This cape had a fringe all along the edges, on which some flowers were embroidered. He wore around his ankles some sort of yellow leather straps from which hung some small seashells. He wore on his feet some very curiously embroidered sandals. He had a round shield that was dyed yellow, with a light-blue spot at the center and without any embroidery. He held in his right hand his walking staff that accompanies them on their way.
\nThis god Nappateuctli was the god of those who make reed mats and is one of the so-called Tlaloques. They say that he is the one who invented the art of making mats, and that is why those who practice this craft of making reed mats, which they call petates, worship him as a god, And they [also] make chairs that they call icpales, and they make reed frames that they call tolcuextli,2 They said that, through the power of this god, the reeds, rushes, and canes with which they practice their craft are born and raised. And because they believed that this god also produced the rains, they used to celebrate a festival for him, in which they revered and worshiped him and asked him to give [them] the things that he is wont to give, such as water, reeds, et cetera.
\nFor his festival, they would buy a slave to be sacrificed in front of him, dressing him up in this god’s adornments, as if he were his image. On the day that this one was to die, and after attiring him as has been said,
\nThe switch between present and past tense in this and in other sections of the Florentine Codex is revealing of the dynamic process of translating the original text into Spanish. Here, Sahagún and his Indigenous coworkers are transcribing the oral description in Nahuatl of the pictures representing the god, a passage that is suddenly narrated in the present tense.↩
These were rough petates made with a water reed called atolin.↩
pipilti.
\nJn jnechichioal motlatlatlali, mixapetzvi, ytemjlo, ixquatzo, ixquatzone, quetzallalpile, teucujtlanacoche, xiuhtlalpilli yn jtilma, tlaçomaxtle, tzitzile, oiooale, teccaque, quetzalxicalcoliuhquj yn jchimal, ytlacçaia ymac onoc, otlatopile.
\nJuh mjtoa, ca no intech pouj yn tlaloque: iehoan ymjxcoian, incatjan, in calpolloc, qujmoteutiaia in petlachiuhque: yoan tolcuechiuhque, in tlacuechjuhque, ytech mopoaia: iuh qujtoaia, ca iehoatl achto qujnmachti, qujmittiti, in petlachioaliztli, yn icpalchioaliztli: iehoatl axcaoa cococaoaia, tlatqujoa, tlanextile, tlatzintile, tlapeoaltile. Joan iuh qujtoaia ca iehoatl qujxoaltia, qujqujxtia, in toli, in tolpitzaoac, in tolpatlactli, in tolmjmjlli, aztapili, in tolqujiutl, in tolcaputl, yn
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"6b590a5c-20b9-4a9f-80d8-796c86b60dc7","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"The nobles took [women like her] as wives. \n\nHis array [was thus][^142] put on: pyrites were on his face. In the form of a column was his headdress with tufts of quetzal feathers. He wore golden ear plugs. A blue netted cloth was his cape. He had a costly breech-clout. He had bells and shells. He wore princely sandals. His shield was of quetzal feathers in a fretted design. His traveling staff was in his hand; he had a stout cane staff.\n\n#### Twentieth Chapter, which telleth of the god whose name was Napa tecutli (Lord of the Four Directions).\n\nIt is said that he also belonged among the Tlalocs. His was a special place, a *calpulli.* The mat-makers worshipped him, and those who made round reed mats [and] coarse reed mats.[^143] It was attributed to him, so they said, that he first taught them, showed them the making of reed mats, the making of reed seats. He was possessor, master, owner, inventor, founder, beginner [of mat making]. And thus they said that he caused to sprout, to grow, the reeds, the slender reeds, the broad reeds, the cylindrical reeds, the white reeds, the reed stalks, the spikes, the \n\n\n\n\n[^142]: After *jnechichioal*, *Real Palacio MS* adds *ynic mochichiua.* \n\n[^143]: Corresponding Spanish text says, “*hazen cañizos de juncias; que llaman tolcuextli.*”","html":"The nobles took [women like her] as wives.
\nHis array [was thus]1 put on: pyrites were on his face. In the form of a column was his headdress with tufts of quetzal feathers. He wore golden ear plugs. A blue netted cloth was his cape. He had a costly breech-clout. He had bells and shells. He wore princely sandals. His shield was of quetzal feathers in a fretted design. His traveling staff was in his hand; he had a stout cane staff.
\nIt is said that he also belonged among the Tlalocs. His was a special place, a calpulli. The mat-makers worshipped him, and those who made round reed mats [and] coarse reed mats.2 It was attributed to him, so they said, that he first taught them, showed them the making of reed mats, the making of reed seats. He was possessor, master, owner, inventor, founder, beginner [of mat making]. And thus they said that he caused to sprout, to grow, the reeds, the slender reeds, the broad reeds, the cylindrical reeds, the white reeds, the reed stalks, the spikes, the
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