aquel año de llover bien o no, y había de haber hambre o enfermedad o mortandad; y otras muchas preguntas desta suerte se hacían a los tales adevinos. Y por las respuestas que les daban, que eran como oráculos, y salían alguna vez verdades, los adoraban y los tenían por dioses, y por esta fama concurrían gentes de muchas y lexas partes a verlos.
\nTambién los dichos otomíes tenían sementeras y troxes; comían buenas comidas y buenas bebidas.
\nSu dios se llamaba Yocipa, al cual le tenían hecho muy buen cu, que era un xacal hecho de paja muy atusada, cuya hechura solamente a su cu era dedicada; y nadie hacía casa de aquella forma, porque sus xacales en que vivían eran de paja no muy polida, ni a estos tales otomíes se les daba nada tener sus casas o xacales con sobrados. En su cu había los sacerdotes que llamaban tlamacazque, los cuales criaban y doctrinaban allí muchachos. Hacían allí penitencia por todos; velaban toda la noche; en tiempo de los sacrificios punzaban o sangrábanse del labios o muslos con las puntas de magueyes, y a la media noche se lavaban al tiempo de los fríos; ayunaban, y toda la noche tañían su tamboril o tepunaztli encima del cu, y decían que guardaban y velaban con aquel instrumento de tañer. Estos tales, cuando muchachos, se rapaban la cabeza, dexando unos pocos de cabellos en el colodrillo, que llaman piochtli, y solían agujerar el labio de abaxo y las orejas juntamente. En el labio así agujerado ponían por ornato un be[zote,]
\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":"f2885297-3308-491b-90d7-150c0ebced22","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":"good or not that year; or if there would be a famine, sickness, or loss of life. And many other questions of this kind were posed to these diviners. And because of the answers that they would give them, which were like oracles, and because sometimes these turned out to be true, they worshiped [the diviners] and regarded them as gods. And people would come to see them from many distant places because of this fame.\n\nThese Otomis also had cultivated fields and grain bins. They ate good meals and good drinks.\n\nTheir god was called Yocippa, and they had a very good _cu_ built for him, which was a _jacal_ made of very well-trimmed straw, the style of which was dedicated exclusively to his _cu_; and no one would build a house in that style because the _jacales_ in which they lived were made of a straw that was not quite as smooth, nor were these Otomis accustomed at all to building flat roofs for their houses or _jacales_.[^163] In their _cu_, there were priests whom they called _tlamacazqueh_, who raised and taught the young boys there [in the _cu_]. There they would perform penance on behalf of everyone; hold all-night vigils; and during the time of the sacrifices, prick or bleed their own lips or their thighs with maguey spikes. And during cold weather, they would wash themselves at midnight. They would fast and play their little drum, or _teponaztli_, all night long on top of the _cu_. And they said that when they played that musical instrument, they were keeping vigil and keeping watch. These fellows used to shave their heads when they were boys, leaving just a few hairs on the back of the head, which they call _piochtli_. And they used to pierce their lower lip and also their ears; and in the lip pierced in such a way, they would put a lip plug \n\n\n[^163]: _jacal_, _jacales_: Hispanicized forms of the Nahuatl noun _xacalli_ (shack).","html":"good or not that year; or if there would be a famine, sickness, or loss of life. And many other questions of this kind were posed to these diviners. And because of the answers that they would give them, which were like oracles, and because sometimes these turned out to be true, they worshiped [the diviners] and regarded them as gods. And people would come to see them from many distant places because of this fame.
\nThese Otomis also had cultivated fields and grain bins. They ate good meals and good drinks.
\nTheir god was called Yocippa, and they had a very good cu built for him, which was a jacal made of very well-trimmed straw, the style of which was dedicated exclusively to his cu; and no one would build a house in that style because the jacales in which they lived were made of a straw that was not quite as smooth, nor were these Otomis accustomed at all to building flat roofs for their houses or jacales.1 In their cu, there were priests whom they called tlamacazqueh, who raised and taught the young boys there [in the cu]. There they would perform penance on behalf of everyone; hold all-night vigils; and during the time of the sacrifices, prick or bleed their own lips or their thighs with maguey spikes. And during cold weather, they would wash themselves at midnight. They would fast and play their little drum, or teponaztli, all night long on top of the cu. And they said that when they played that musical instrument, they were keeping vigil and keeping watch. These fellows used to shave their heads when they were boys, leaving just a few hairs on the back of the head, which they call piochtli. And they used to pierce their lower lip and also their ears; and in the lip pierced in such a way, they would put a lip plug
\njacal, jacales: Hispanicized forms of the Nahuatl noun xacalli (shack).↩
aço vel qujaviz ce xivitl, in acanoçomo, quilhujaia maianaliztli, in aço cocoliztli qujçaqujuh, momanaqujuh: mjec tlamantli in quilhujaia tlaciuhquj, in qujnmoteutiaia: ic cenca vei machoia, novian oalittoia.
\nInjque, y, otomj, mjleque, cuezcomeque, qualli in jntlaqual, qualli in jmauh: in jnteouh catca itoca Iocipa: vel qualli in jteucal quiquechiliaia quitonaltiaia, in teteçauhquj xacalli: in motocaiotia otonteucalli, ic mochintin moxacaltiaia, moçacacaltiaia: amo cenca tle ipan qujttaia in tlapancalli, in jnteupan vncan nenca in tlamacazque: ioan vncan oapaoaloia in pipiltotonti, vncan tlamaceoaia, iooalli qujtlaçaia, apan temoia movitztlaliaia, mjçoia, motequja, moçaoaia, ceioal in teponaçoaia, in jcpac inteucal: qujl icpac tlapiaia, (in qujtoaia)
\ninic mochichioaia: in jnnexin catca in oc pipiltotonti, moquateçonoa, aqujton in cuexcochtlan qujcaoa in tzontli, in quj[tocaiotia]
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\nThese Otomí possessed gardens; they possessed maize bins; good [was] their food, good [was] their drink. The name of their god was Iocippa. Very good [was] his temple, which they had erected for him, had dedicated to him—the straw hut of trimmed and smoothed straw called the temple of Oton. All provided themselves with straw huts, grass huts; they did not greatly esteem flat-roofed houses. There in their temples lived the priests, and there the small boys were reared; there they did penance, passed the night, entered the bath; maguey spines were placed; they bled themselves, they cut themselves, they fasted. All night they played the two-toned drum on the top of their temple. It was said they held guard on top. (This they said.)
\nIn this manner were they adorned. The hair of the still small boys was cut short leaving a little hair on the back of the head.
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