piedras son blancas, y dellas se hacen buenos espejos. Llámanse estos espejos "palancianos espejos de señoras y señores". Tienen muy bien metal. Hacen la cara muy al proprio. Cuando están en piedra parecen pedazos de metal; cuando los labran y pulen son muy hermosos, muy lisos, sin raza ninguna. Son preciosos. Hay otras piedras deste metal que son negras cuando las labran y pulen. Hácense unos, espejos dellas que representan la cara muy al revés de lo que es. Hacen la cara grande y disforme, las cesas gruesas y largas, los labios gruesos y disformes, las narices grandes y gruesas. Ninguna cosa representan al proprio. Labran estos espejos de muchas figuras: unos redondos, otros triangulados, otros de otras figuras. Véndense en los tiánquez, unos grandes, otros medianos, otros pequeños.
\nHay en esta tierra pedernales muy buenos y de muchas maneras en su factión, y de muchas colores, como en la letra se explica muy por menudo. Aprovechábanse dellos antiguamente para hacer casquitos de saetas y cuchillos para abrir los pechos a los que sacrificaban.
\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":"52882204-c2b6-4089-b5ca-a1331804eb22","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":"stones are white, and good mirrors are made out of them. These mirrors are called “ladies’ and lords’ palace mirrors.” They have a very good metal. They reflect the face very accurately. When they are [still] within the rock, they look like pieces of metal. When they carve and polish them, they become very beautiful, very smooth, without any cracks. They are precious. There are other stones of the same metal that are black when they carve and polish them. They make some mirrors out of them that reflect one’s face as the opposite of what it is. They make the face look big and deformed, the eyebrows thick and long, the lips thick and deformed, and the noses big and fat. They do not represent anything accurately. They carve these mirrors in many shapes: some round, others triangular, and others in other shapes. They are sold in the _tianquiz_: some are big, others medium sized, others small.\n\nIn this land, there are very good flint stones that have both many kinds of appearance and many colors, as the [accompanying] text explains in great detail. In ancient times, they would use them in order to make arrowheads and the knives [that were used] to open up the chests of those whom they sacrificed.","html":"stones are white, and good mirrors are made out of them. These mirrors are called “ladies’ and lords’ palace mirrors.” They have a very good metal. They reflect the face very accurately. When they are [still] within the rock, they look like pieces of metal. When they carve and polish them, they become very beautiful, very smooth, without any cracks. They are precious. There are other stones of the same metal that are black when they carve and polish them. They make some mirrors out of them that reflect one’s face as the opposite of what it is. They make the face look big and deformed, the eyebrows thick and long, the lips thick and deformed, and the noses big and fat. They do not represent anything accurately. They carve these mirrors in many shapes: some round, others triangular, and others in other shapes. They are sold in the tianquiz: some are big, others medium sized, others small.
\nIn this land, there are very good flint stones that have both many kinds of appearance and many colors, as the [accompanying] text explains in great detail. In ancient times, they would use them in order to make arrowheads and the knives [that were used] to open up the chests of those whom they sacrificed.
\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":"76028287-ff3c-4d14-954a-90c2bc4764d7","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":"[çe]quj iztac, cequj tliltic, in jztac iehoatl in qualli in tlachia, in nettonj in chipavac, atic, qujtocaiotia tecpiltezcatl, tlatocatezcatl,\n\nin tliltic, iehoatl in amo qualli, in amo tlachia, in amo tequalnexti çan (qujtoa) teixavanj, in aqujn ic motezcavia, in ompa õmotta camatalapol,, ixquatolmjmjlpol, tenxipaltotomacpol, camaxacalpol: qujtoa tlaeltezcatl, teixavanj tezcatl.\n\nInjn tezcatl, cequj iavaltic, cequj xopiltic: qujlhuja acaltezcatl, tepeio, oztoio, tataconj, petlavalonj, quaquaovanj,\nnitezcachiva, njcquaquavi njctzicueva njcvallalia, njqujchiquj, njcxalhuja, njcteuxalhuja, njctzinacancujtlavia, njccencava, njcquetzalotlavia, njciotovia, njnotezcavia, nontlachiantezcac, ompa nonneçi, ompa nonnotta. \n\n##### Tecpatl:\ninjn acan qujzquj in jtoca, ololtic, patlachtic, chiqujnaltic: acan cenqujzquj. xipetztic, xixipetztic, tetecujtztic, châchaquachtic, côcomotztic, vacaltic, patztic, comultic, côcoioctic,","html":"[çe]quj iztac, cequj tliltic, in jztac iehoatl in qualli in tlachia, in nettonj in chipavac, atic, qujtocaiotia tecpiltezcatl, tlatocatezcatl,
\nin tliltic, iehoatl in amo qualli, in amo tlachia, in amo tequalnexti çan (qujtoa) teixavanj, in aqujn ic motezcavia, in ompa õmotta camatalapol,, ixquatolmjmjlpol, tenxipaltotomacpol, camaxacalpol: qujtoa tlaeltezcatl, teixavanj tezcatl.
\nInjn tezcatl, cequj iavaltic, cequj xopiltic: qujlhuja acaltezcatl, tepeio, oztoio, tataconj, petlavalonj, quaquaovanj,\nnitezcachiva, njcquaquavi njctzicueva njcvallalia, njqujchiquj, njcxalhuja, njcteuxalhuja, njctzinacancujtlavia, njccencava, njcquetzalotlavia, njciotovia, njnotezcavia, nontlachiantezcac, ompa nonneçi, ompa nonnotta.
\ninjn acan qujzquj in jtoca, ololtic, patlachtic, chiqujnaltic: acan cenqujzquj. xipetztic, xixipetztic, tetecujtztic, châchaquachtic, côcomotztic, vacaltic, patztic, comultic, côcoioctic,
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"e7f7385c-d8d2-4dad-bdff-7bd9ba697742","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":"one is white, one black. The white one—this is a good one to look into: the mirror, the clear, transparent one. They named it the mirror of the noblemen, the mirror of the ruler.\n\nThe black one—this one is not good. It is not to look into; it does not make one appear good. It is one (so they say) which contends with one’s face. When someone uses such a mirror, from it is to be seen a distorted mouth, swollen eyelids, thick lips, a large mouth. They say it is an ugly mirror, a mirror which contends with one’s face.\n\nOf these mirrors, one is round; one is long: they call it *acaltezcatl*. [These mirror stones] can be excavated in mines, can be polished, can be worked.\n\nI make a mirror. I work it. I shatter it. I form it.[^1] I grind it. I polish it with sand. I work it with fine abrasive sand. I apply to it a glue of bat excrement. I prepare it. I polish it with a fine cane. I make it shiny. I regard myself in the mirror. I appear from there in my looking-mirror; from it I admire myself.\n\n##### Flint[^2]\n\nThe name of this comes from nowhere. It is round, flat, triangular, irregular. It is slick, slick in all parts; it is asperous; it is rough, scabrous, concave, dented, hollowed out, bored. \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: *Acad. Hist. MS: nicvellalia*.\n\n\n[^2]: Foshag (*op. cit.,* p. 26) refers to *tecpatl* as jasper.","html":"one is white, one black. The white one—this is a good one to look into: the mirror, the clear, transparent one. They named it the mirror of the noblemen, the mirror of the ruler.
\nThe black one—this one is not good. It is not to look into; it does not make one appear good. It is one (so they say) which contends with one’s face. When someone uses such a mirror, from it is to be seen a distorted mouth, swollen eyelids, thick lips, a large mouth. They say it is an ugly mirror, a mirror which contends with one’s face.
\nOf these mirrors, one is round; one is long: they call it acaltezcatl. [These mirror stones] can be excavated in mines, can be polished, can be worked.
\nI make a mirror. I work it. I shatter it. I form it.1 I grind it. I polish it with sand. I work it with fine abrasive sand. I apply to it a glue of bat excrement. I prepare it. I polish it with a fine cane. I make it shiny. I regard myself in the mirror. I appear from there in my looking-mirror; from it I admire myself.
\nThe name of this comes from nowhere. It is round, flat, triangular, irregular. It is slick, slick in all parts; it is asperous; it is rough, scabrous, concave, dented, hollowed out, bored.
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