ser animal.
\nEstos otomites comían los zorrillos que hieden, y culebras, y lirones, y todo género de ratones, y las comadrejas, y otras sabandijas del campo y monte, y lagartijas de todas suertes, y abejones, y langostas de todas maneras.
\nY de las mujeres habían muchas que sabían hacer lindas labores en las mantas, naguas y huipiles que texían. Y texían muy curiosamente; pero todas ellas labraban lo dicho de hilo de maguey que sacaban y beneficiaban de las pencas de los magueyes, porque lo hilaban y lo texían con muchas labores y lo que texían no era de mucho valor; aun[que]
\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":"0cd31d1d-7c05-4787-b17a-12cd0d9a9d88","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":"as if they had said about him that he was behaving very much like an animal.\n\nThese Otomis used to eat the skunks that stink, snakes, squirrels, all sorts of mice, weasels, other small critters from the fields and the bush, lizards of every type, beetles,[^171] and all sorts of grasshoppers.\n\nAnd among their women, there were many who knew how to make beautiful designs on the capes, skirts, and _huipiles_ that they wove. And they wove very intricately; all of them would make this [handiwork] from maguey thread, which they collected and treated from the leaves of the maguey plants, because they would spin and weave it with many designs. And what they wove was not very valuable. \n\n\n[^171]: “Beetles”: _abejones_; literally, “large bees.” The Nahuatl text reads _temoli_ and _cujtlatemoli_ (beetles and dung beetles).","html":"as if they had said about him that he was behaving very much like an animal.
\nThese Otomis used to eat the skunks that stink, snakes, squirrels, all sorts of mice, weasels, other small critters from the fields and the bush, lizards of every type, beetles,1 and all sorts of grasshoppers.
\nAnd among their women, there were many who knew how to make beautiful designs on the capes, skirts, and huipiles that they wove. And they wove very intricately; all of them would make this [handiwork] from maguey thread, which they collected and treated from the leaves of the maguey plants, because they would spin and weave it with many designs. And what they wove was not very valuable.
\n“Beetles”: abejones; literally, “large bees.” The Nahuatl text reads temoli and cujtlatemoli (beetles and dung beetles).↩
[ano]ço iciuhca qujpoloa in jaxca, in jtlatquj, çan timotompoloa.
\nIn otomj. qujqua in epatl, qujqua in coatl, qujqua in mototli, in quauhqujmjchi in tlalqujmjchi, in calqujmjchi: mochi qujqua in veçalotl, in acaltetepon, in coçamatl, in mjlquaxoch, qujqua in tapaiaxi, in cuetzpali, in temoli, in cuitlatemoli, qujqua in çacachapoli, in aiauhchapuli, in olchapoli\nAuh in otonçioa, tel mjequjnti in tlamachchiuhque, qujqujti, qujchioa, in maviztic tlamachtilmatli, tlamachcueitl, qujqujti in nepanjuhquj, in mjtoa Ocelotilmatli, tlamachcueitl, tlamachvipilli: ie ce in mochinti Otoncioatzitzinti, çan ichtli in qujmaviltia, tlachichinoa, tlacima, tlaoaçoma, tlaaqujxtia, tlatexvia, tzaoa, tlatlaquechtlampavia, hiqujti:
\namono quexquich ipatiuh in qujchioa, qujqujti, in jtichicoio
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"0e6e1421-325c-43c1-8bc9-88e9c3cf120e","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"or who quickly consumed his possessions, his goods, it was said: “Thou destroyest thyself just like an Otomí.”\n\nThe Otomí ate skunks,[^47] serpents, squirrels,[^48] forest mice, field mice, house mice. They ate all the kangaroo rats,[^49] gila monsters, weasels, large lizards. They ate chameleon, lizards, black beetles, dung beetles. They ate grass grasshoppers, mist grasshoppers, rubber grasshoppers.\n\nAnd also many of the Otomí women [were] weavers of designs. They wove; they made the wonderful capes with designs, the skirts with designs; they wove the gauze weave, the so-called ocelot cape, the woven design skirt, the woven design shift. But all the Otomí women concerned themselves only with maguey fiber. [The green leaves] were toasted, dressed, scraped. They pressed the water [out of the fiber], treated it with maize dough, spun it, placed it over the shoulder, wove it.[^50]\n\nNeither was the value great of what they made. They wove the diagonal \n\n\n\n\n[^47]: Cf. Villa, *op. cit*., pp. 457–465, and Martín del Campo *op. cit.* (1941), p. 499. Genera *Mephitis, Conepatus, Spilogale*—Striped skunk, Hagnosed skunk, Spotted skunk, respectively, according to Durrant.\n\n\n[^48]: Villa, *op. cit*., p. 372: *Citellus mexicanus mexicanus* Erxleben.\n\n\n[^49]: *Veçacotl* in the *Acad. Hist. MS*. For *ratón*, Molina, *op. cit*., has *veçacotl;* for *lirón* (dormouse), *viçacotl*. In Book XI, Sahagún describes *uicacotl*, which, according to Martín del Campo, *op cit*., p. 504, is of the genus *Dipodomys*.\n\n\n[^50]: For onformation on weaving in this passage and in chaps. x and xiv, we are indebted to Irmgard W. Johnson, and to Guy Stresser-Péan and Luis Reyes, who together analyzed techniques currently practised in Otomí and other indigenous areas. Hence such descriptive terms as “woven design skirt” for *tlamachcueitl*, “gauze weave” for *nepaniuhqui,* etc.—Personal communications, Nov. 1, 1958; July 11, 1959.","html":"or who quickly consumed his possessions, his goods, it was said: “Thou destroyest thyself just like an Otomí.”
\nThe Otomí ate skunks,1 serpents, squirrels,2 forest mice, field mice, house mice. They ate all the kangaroo rats,3 gila monsters, weasels, large lizards. They ate chameleon, lizards, black beetles, dung beetles. They ate grass grasshoppers, mist grasshoppers, rubber grasshoppers.
\nAnd also many of the Otomí women [were] weavers of designs. They wove; they made the wonderful capes with designs, the skirts with designs; they wove the gauze weave, the so-called ocelot cape, the woven design skirt, the woven design shift. But all the Otomí women concerned themselves only with maguey fiber. [The green leaves] were toasted, dressed, scraped. They pressed the water [out of the fiber], treated it with maize dough, spun it, placed it over the shoulder, wove it.4
\nNeither was the value great of what they made. They wove the diagonal
\nCf. Villa, op. cit., pp. 457–465, and Martín del Campo op. cit. (1941), p. 499. Genera Mephitis, Conepatus, Spilogale—Striped skunk, Hagnosed skunk, Spotted skunk, respectively, according to Durrant.↩
Villa, op. cit., p. 372: Citellus mexicanus mexicanus Erxleben.↩
Veçacotl in the Acad. Hist. MS. For ratón, Molina, op. cit., has veçacotl; for lirón (dormouse), viçacotl. In Book XI, Sahagún describes uicacotl, which, according to Martín del Campo, op cit., p. 504, is of the genus Dipodomys.↩
For onformation on weaving in this passage and in chaps. x and xiv, we are indebted to Irmgard W. Johnson, and to Guy Stresser-Péan and Luis Reyes, who together analyzed techniques currently practised in Otomí and other indigenous areas. Hence such descriptive terms as “woven design skirt” for tlamachcueitl, “gauze weave” for nepaniuhqui, etc.—Personal communications, Nov. 1, 1958; July 11, 1959.↩