Y ansí salieron dallí por su mandado, aunque ya estaban allí mucho tiempo poblados, y tenían hechas lindas y sumptosas casas de su templo y de sus palacios que habían sido edificadas con harta curiosidad en el pueblo de Tulla, y en todas partes y lugares donde estaban derramados y poblados y muy arraigados allí los dichos tultecas, con muchas riquezas que tenían. Al fin se hubieron de ir de allí, dexando sus casas, sus tierras, su pueblo y sus riquezas. Y como no las pudían llevar todas consigo, muchas dexaron enterradas, y aun agora algunas dellas se sacan debaxo de tierra, y cierto no sin admiración de primor y labor. Y ansí creyendo y obedeciendo a lo que el dicho Quetzalcóatl les mandaba, hubieron de llevar por delante, aunque con trabajo, sus mujeres y hijos y enfermos, y viejos y viejas, y no hubo quien no le quisiese obedecer, porque todos se mudaron cuando él salió del pueblo de Tulla para irse a la región que llaman Tlapallan, donde nunca más pareció el dicho Quetzalcóatl.
\nY estos dichos tultecas eran ladinos en la lengua mexicana, que no eran bárbaros, aunque no la hablaban tam perfectamente como agora se usa. Y cuando se hablaban unos a otros decían: "señor", "señor hermano
\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":"700c740d-0208-4342-920f-76435dc6c82c","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":"And so they left that place under his order, even though they had been established there for a long time and had made the beautiful and sumptuous houses of his temple and his palaces, which had been built with remarkable artistry in the town of Tollan and in all the other places and areas where these Toltecs had spread out, populated, and established themselves with the many riches that they had.\n\nIn the end, they had to leave that place, leaving behind their houses, their lands, their town, and their riches. And since they could not take all these things with them, they left many of them buried; and even now, some of them are extracted from underground—and certainly not without amazement at their exquisiteness and workmanship. And thus believing and obeying whatever this Quetzalcoatl would order them [to do], they made every effort to remove their women, children, ailing people, and older men and women. And there was no one who wished to disobey him, because everyone moved out when he departed from the town of Tollan to go to the region that they call Tlapallan, where this Quetzalcoatl disappeared forever.\n\nAnd these Toltecs were fluent in the Mexican language, for they were not barbarians, although they did not speak it as perfectly as it is now used. And whenever they spoke to each other, they would say “lord,” “lord older brother,”","html":"And so they left that place under his order, even though they had been established there for a long time and had made the beautiful and sumptuous houses of his temple and his palaces, which had been built with remarkable artistry in the town of Tollan and in all the other places and areas where these Toltecs had spread out, populated, and established themselves with the many riches that they had.
\nIn the end, they had to leave that place, leaving behind their houses, their lands, their town, and their riches. And since they could not take all these things with them, they left many of them buried; and even now, some of them are extracted from underground—and certainly not without amazement at their exquisiteness and workmanship. And thus believing and obeying whatever this Quetzalcoatl would order them [to do], they made every effort to remove their women, children, ailing people, and older men and women. And there was no one who wished to disobey him, because everyone moved out when he departed from the town of Tollan to go to the region that they call Tlapallan, where this Quetzalcoatl disappeared forever.
\nAnd these Toltecs were fluent in the Mexican language, for they were not barbarians, although they did not speak it as perfectly as it is now used. And whenever they spoke to each other, they would say “lord,” “lord older brother,”
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"f223bf6e-cd60-4e6c-9985-4988dbad24e4","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"iquac qujnoalqujxti tulla, mochintin qujmolinj, qujnquetz: macivin vel chan onoca, macivin vellamaviçolli in teucalli, in tecpancalli onoca tulla:\n\nioan injc novian cenmantoca tulteca, ioan macivi in vel mocujltonotoca, ca moquetzque, ca olinque: qujcauhque in jncal in jntlal, in jmauh, in jntepeuh in jnnecujltonol: ca amo vel mochi qujtqujque, ca qujtocatiaque, ca ano can itto, in jntlatoc, iehoantin tulteca:\nauh inic cenca qujneltocaque in quetzalcoatl, ca intlan acque ca qujmacocque in inçioaoan, in jnpilhoan, in jncocuxcaoan, moquetzque, molinjque, in veventzitzin, in jlamatzitzin: aiac in maca tlatlacama, mochintin olinque, injc ia, inic calac, in atl iitic, in tlapallan, in vmpa polivito: in iehoatzin topiltzin quetzalcoatl.\nInjque in tulteca: in iuh mjtoa, ca naoa catca, ca amo popolocaia: iece qujnonoalcaitoaia in jntlatol, qujtoaia injc monotza: nopiltzin teutl, teutl njccauh, teutl nachcauh:\n\nmo[cujltonoanjme]","html":"iquac qujnoalqujxti tulla, mochintin qujmolinj, qujnquetz: macivin vel chan onoca, macivin vellamaviçolli in teucalli, in tecpancalli onoca tulla:
\nioan injc novian cenmantoca tulteca, ioan macivi in vel mocujltonotoca, ca moquetzque, ca olinque: qujcauhque in jncal in jntlal, in jmauh, in jntepeuh in jnnecujltonol: ca amo vel mochi qujtqujque, ca qujtocatiaque, ca ano can itto, in jntlatoc, iehoantin tulteca:\nauh inic cenca qujneltocaque in quetzalcoatl, ca intlan acque ca qujmacocque in inçioaoan, in jnpilhoan, in jncocuxcaoan, moquetzque, molinjque, in veventzitzin, in jlamatzitzin: aiac in maca tlatlacama, mochintin olinque, injc ia, inic calac, in atl iitic, in tlapallan, in vmpa polivito: in iehoatzin topiltzin quetzalcoatl.\nInjque in tulteca: in iuh mjtoa, ca naoa catca, ca amo popolocaia: iece qujnonoalcaitoaia in jntlatol, qujtoaia injc monotza: nopiltzin teutl, teutl njccauh, teutl nachcauh:
\nmo[cujltonoanjme]
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\nAnd as the Tolteca were spread over all parts and althouh they were very rich, they departed, they moved; they left their houses, their lands, their cities, their wealth. Since they could not carry all, they buried it. The property of these Tolteca is removed; it is to be seen in places.
\nAnd as they had great faith in Quetzalcoatl, they made every effort to remove their women their children, their sick. The old men, the old women departed; they moved. No one failed to obey; all moved when Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl went to enter into the water at Tlapallan, where he went to disappear.
\nThese Tolteca, as is said, were Nahua; they did not speak a barbarous tongue. However, their language they called Nonoalca. They said as they conversed: “My noble lord; my lord younger brother; my lord elder brother.”1
\nIbid: “señor, señor hermano mayor, señor hermano menor.”↩