Acerbo enim luctu dolens pater, cito sibi rapti filii fecit imaginem: et illum qui tunc quasi homo mortuus fuerat, nunc tanquam deum colere cœpit, et constituit, inter seruos suos sacra et sacrificia. [G] Deinde interveniente tempore conualescente iniqua consuetudine, hic error tanquam lex custoditus est, et tyrannorum imperio colebantur figmenta. [A] Et hos quos in palam homines honorare non poterant, propter hoc quod longe essent, e longinquo figura eorum allata, euidentem imaginem regis, quem honorare volebant, fecerunt: Vt illum qui aberat, tanquam presentem colerent sua solicitudine. [B] Prouexit autem ad horum culturam et hos qui ignorabant, artificis, eximia diligentia. [C] Ille enim volens plus placere illi, qui se assumpsit, elaborauit arte sua, vt similitudinem in melius figuraret.
\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":"0c005004-5ae8-4715-a3fd-2dc0075065e1","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":"For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement, made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him; he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being, and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations. [G] Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law, and at the command of monarchs carved images were worshiped. [A] When people could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance, they imagined their appearance far away, and made a visible image of the king whom they honored, so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present. [B] Then the ambition of the artisan impelled even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship. [C] For he, perhaps wishing to please his ruler, skillfully forced the likeness to take more beautiful form,","html":"For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement, made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him; he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being, and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations. [G] Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law, and at the command of monarchs carved images were worshiped. [A] When people could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance, they imagined their appearance far away, and made a visible image of the king whom they honored, so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present. [B] Then the ambition of the artisan impelled even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship. [C] For he, perhaps wishing to please his ruler, skillfully forced the likeness to take more beautiful form,
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\nG. Auh ie iquezqujxiuhioc, otlanaoati in tlatoanj, ynjc ixqujchtin, imaceoalhoan qujmoteutizque, yn ixiptla, yn ipiltzin, yoan ixpan tlamanazque: yujn j, yn otzintic, in tlateutoqujliztli.
\nA. Izcatquj in oc centlamantli, ynjc otzintic tlateutoqujliztli: cequintin, oqujchiuhque, imixiptlahoan, yn jntlaçohuan in veca nemj: auh in jpampa ca veca nemj, auel qujttaia yn ynnacaio, ytech moiollaliaia yn jmjxiptlaoan: yoan qujnmauiztiliaia, yoan ispan tlamanaia, aço tlatoanj, anoço civapilli.
\nB. Auh in iehoanti, in tlacujloque, cēca qujnematcaicujloque in teixiptla, vel mauiztic, vel iectli oqujchiuhque, yn teixiptla, ic oteioleuhque, ynjc oneteutiloc.
\nC. Jn iehoatl in tlacujlo, yn anoço quauhxinquj, anoço texinquj, anoço teucujtlapitzquj: injc cenca qujiolpachiujtiznequi, yn oqujteq͗ti, oc cenca qualli oqujchiuh, yn amo mach iuhquj catca yn jnacaio, yn jtech omocopin, yn jtech omocujc in teixiptla: oc cenca qualli oqujtlali in teixiptla, cenca ic otetlapololtique.
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\nG. And in years following the ruler commanded all his vassals to worship the representation of his son and to lay offerings before it. Thus it was that idolatry began.
\nA. Behold another manner by which idolatry began. Some made representations of those whom they loved who lived in far places. And because they lived in far places, [because] they could not see their bodies, their representations gave them comfort. And they paid them honor, and either the ruler or a noble-woman laid offerings before them.
\nB. And the painters very carefully painted the representations. Very marvelously, very well they made the representations. Thus they tempted men; thus there was the worship of idols.
\nC. The painter, or the woodcarver, or the lapidary, or the goldworker, since he greatly wished to quiet doubts, brought it about that what he made was even better than the flesh from which was molded, from which was taken, the representation. The better he formed the representation, the more he confused men.
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