y por la gran experiencia que tenían dellas, dexaron señaladas y conocidas las que en ahora se usan para curar, porque también eran médicos, y especialmente los primeros desta arte, que se llamaban Oxomoco, Cipactónal, Tlaltetecui, Xochicahuaca, los cuales fueron tan hábiles en conocer las yerbas, que ellos fueron los primeros inventores de medicina, y aun los primeros médicos herbolarios. Ellos mesmos por su gran conocimiento hallaron y descubrieron las piedras preciosas, y las usaron ellos primero, como son las esmeraldas y turquesa fina, y piedra azul fina, y todo género de piedras preciosas.
\nY fue tan grande conocimiento que tenían de las piedras que, aunque estuviesen dentro de alguna gran piedra y debaxo de la tierra, con su ingenio natural y filosofía las descubrían y sabían dónde las habían de hallar, en esta manera: que madrugaban muy de mañana, y se subían a un alto, puesto el rostro hacia donde sale el Sol, y en saliendo tenían tan gran cuidado en ver y mirar a unas y a otras partes para ver dónde y en qué lugar y parte, debaxo de la tierra, estaba o había piedra preciosa. Y buscábanla mayormente en parte donde estaba húmeda o mojada la tierra, y en
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\nAnd so great was the knowledge that they had of stones that, even if they happened to be inside some large rock and underground, they would [still] discover them by means of their natural intelligence and philosophy. And this is how they knew where to find them: they would wake up very early in the morning and go up to a high place, facing the direction where the sun rises. And as it rose, they would watch very carefully, looking here and there to see in which place and area and where underground a precious stone would be resting. And they would seek them out mostly in those places where the ground was damp or wet. And when
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\nInjc cenca vellaiximatinj catca: iehoantin iancujcã qujnextique, iancujcan qujttaque: auh iancujcan qujtitlanque in chalchivitl, in teuxivitl, in xivitl: njman tlalitztli. in quetzalitztli, in ie ixquich nepapan tlaçotli tetl in maviztic.
\nInjc cenca vellaiximatia: intla nel vei tetl iitic ca, in tlein tlaçotli tetl, vel quittaia: auh intla nel tlallan cana ca in tlaçotli, in maviztic tetl, vel qujttaia:
\nquilmach injc qujttaia. oc ioac in qujçaia, cana tlacpac in motlaliaia, qujxnamjctimotlaliaia in tonatiuh: auh in jquac ie oalqujça tonatiuh, vel imjx intequjuh, nelli mach in mjxpepetza, qujl inic qujtta, in canjn ca tlallan tlaçotetl, tlacuechaoatica: auh in jquac oalpetzinj tona[tiuh,]
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\nSo learned were they [that] they were the ones who for the first time, discovered, found, and, for the first time, used the green stones, fine turquoise, [common] turquoise, then common obsidian, the emerald-green jade—all kinds of wondrous precious stones.
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\nIt is said they found it in this manner: when [it was] still dark, they came forth; they placed themselves somewhere on a high place; they placed themselves facing the sun. And when the sun came up, they took great care to look carefully in all directions, they say, in order to see by means of wet earth where the precious stones were in the ground. And when
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