mayor", "señor hermano menor".
\nEran ricos, y por ser vivos y hábiles, en breve tiempo con su diligencia tenían riquezas que decían que les daba su dios y señor Quetzalcóatl, y ansí se decían entre ellos que el que en breve tiempo se enriquecía, que era hijo de Quetzalcóatl.
\nY la manera de se cortar los cabellos era, según su uso polido, que traían los cabellos desde la media cabeza atrás, y traían el celebro atusado como a sobre peine. Y éstos también por su nombre se llamaban chichimecas, y ansí se nombraban tultecas chichimecas. Y no se dice aquí más de en suma su manera y condición de lo que primero vinieron a poblar esta tierra que llaman México. Y resta por decir otro poco de los dichos tultecas, y es: todos los que hablan claro la lengua mexicana, que les llaman nahuas, son descendientes de los dichos tultecas, que fueron de los que se quedaron y no pudieron ir y seguir a Quetzalcóatl, como eran los viejos y viejas, o enfermos, o paridas, o que de su voluntad se quedaron.
\n“lord younger brother.”
\nThey were rich, and because they were smart and skillful, in a short time and through their diligence, they acquired riches that they said were given to them by their lord and god Quetzalcoatl. And so they had a saying that whoever became rich in a short time was a son of Quetzalcoatl.
\nAnd the way they cut their hair was—according to their polished style—that they would let their hair grow from the center of the head back, and they would wear [the hair on] their head trimmed short.1 And these [people] also called themselves by the name Chichimecas, and so they called themselves Toltec Chichimecas. And nothing else is said here [in the parallel text] except for a summary of the nature and customs of those who first came to populate this land that they call Mexico. And there is little left to say about these Toltecs, and it is that all those who speak the Mexican language clearly, whom they call Nahuas, are descendants of these Toltecs; and they descended from the ones who stayed behind and could not leave and follow Quetzalcoatl, such as the older men and women, the sick people, the women who had recently given birth, or those who willingly stayed put.
\n“And they would wear . . . short”: y traían el celebro atusado como a sobre peine; the corresponding Nahuatl text reads quitetezoaya inimixcuac.↩
[mo]cujltonoanjme catca, in jpampa innezcaliliz iciuhca quinextiaia in jntlatquj. Ic mjtoa in axcan, in aqujn iciuhca qujnextia tlatqujtl, ca ipiltzin in quetzalcoatl: ca quetzalcoatl ipiltzin.\nAuh in jnnexin catca mononoalcaximaia, qujnonooalcatlaliaia in innexin, qujteteçoaia in jmjxquac. Auh injque in: no qujmotocaiotitivi chichimeca, mjtoa, motocaiotia, tulteca chichimeca. Çan vel ixqujch in njcan vnmjtoa: in jmjuhcatiliz, in mjtoa, achto nemjco: njcan in mjtoa mexicatlalpan.
\nOc izca achiton, in no monequj mjtoz, in jntechcopa tulteca. In jxqujchtin naoatlaca: in naoatlatoa, in amo popoloca: ca innecauhcaiooan in tulteca, ca ieoantin in mocacauhtiaque, in aoc vel iaque in at ueuentzitzin, at ilamatzitzin, at cocuxque, at mjxiuhque, in at çaçan noço iniollocopa, motlalique.
\nThey were rich. By reason of their prudence they caused their goods to appear quickly. Thus it is now said of him who quickly gains goods that he is a son of Quetzalcoatl, that he is Quetzalcoatl’s son.
\nAnd their hair style was cut after the manner of the Nonoalca; they fashioned their hair style like the Nonoalca; they shaved the hair over their foreheads.1 And these also went by the name of Chichimeca; it is said they were named Tolteca Chichimeca. This is all which is here said as to the nature of those mentioned, who first came to settle here in the land called Mexico.
\nStill, here a little more needs to be told concerning the Tolteca. All the Nahua, those who speak clearly, not the speakers of a barbarous tongue, are the descendants of the Tolteca, for they are those who remained, those who could no longer migrate; perhaps the old men, perchance the old women, the sick, the recently delivered, those who perhaps for some reason remained of their own will.
\nIbid.; “la manera de se cortar los cabellos era segun su vso polido, que trayan los cabellos desde la media cabeça atras y trayã el celebro atusado como a sobrepeyne.”↩