Agora ya no aprovechan de otra cosa sino para los arcabuces y para sacar fuego con eslabón. Dellos todavía los usan para casquillos de las saetas.
\nHay una manera de pedernales verdes que se llaman xoxouhqui técpatl. Tiran a chalchihuites. Los lapidarios llámanles tecélic porque son blandos de labrar. Tienen unas pintas de azul claro.
\nA las piedras labradas y curiosas que traen atadas a las muñecas, ora sean de cristal o de otras piedras preciosas, llámanlas chopílotl, el cual vocablo se puede aplicar cualquiera piedra curiosamente labrada o hermosa, que lo llaman chopilótic.
\nHay unas pedrezuelas blancas, muy blancas, que tienen algunas vetas o razas de otras colores. Llámanlas tepuchtli.
\nHay en esta tierra piedra mármor,
\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":"09fb50f9-8a9f-47e9-8c93-bb16abe26055","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":"Now they do not use them except for the harquebuses and to make fire with a piece of steel.[^124] They are still using them [to make] arrowheads.\n\nThere is a type of green flint stone that they call _xoxouhqui tecpatl_. They rather look like _chalchihuites_. The lapidaries call them _tecelic_ because they are soft for carving. They have some light-blue streaks.\n\nThey call the unusually carved stones that they wear tied around their wrists—whether made of crystal or of other precious stones—_chopilotl_, which is a word that may be applied to any beautiful or unusually carved stone, which they call _chopilotic_.\n\nThere are some little white stones, very white ones, that have some seams or streaks of other colors. They call these _tepochtli_.\n\nThere is marble stone in this land, \n\n\n[^124]: “To make fire . . . steel”: _para sacar fuego con eslabón_. This refers to the piece of steel that is struck against a flintstone to start a fire. Another word for _eslabón_ is _chispero_ (fire striker; literally, “spark maker”).","html":"Now they do not use them except for the harquebuses and to make fire with a piece of steel.1 They are still using them [to make] arrowheads.
\nThere is a type of green flint stone that they call xoxouhqui tecpatl. They rather look like chalchihuites. The lapidaries call them tecelic because they are soft for carving. They have some light-blue streaks.
\nThey call the unusually carved stones that they wear tied around their wrists—whether made of crystal or of other precious stones—chopilotl, which is a word that may be applied to any beautiful or unusually carved stone, which they call chopilotic.
\nThere are some little white stones, very white ones, that have some seams or streaks of other colors. They call these tepochtli.
\nThere is marble stone in this land,
\n“To make fire . . . steel”: para sacar fuego con eslabón. This refers to the piece of steel that is struck against a flintstone to start a fire. Another word for eslabón is chispero (fire striker; literally, “spark maker”).↩
qujqujztic, qujqujçauhquj, acan neçi, in ma vepantli iztac, cequj coztic: amo vel coztic, çan poiavac, çan achi çacatlaxcalpoiavac, cequj quappachtica mehecauhioti, cequj xoxoxoctic, cequj atic, cequj tetzavac, cequj ceio hecauhio, injn tleio in movitequj, tlexochtli itech valqujça, tlatla, tlatlatia, tlatlecavia, tlatlecujtia, tleiova, tleti.
\nachi mochalchiuhnenequj, iehoatl in qujtocaiotia tlatecquj, in tlaiximatinj tecelic, qujmotzitzicujchili, xoxoctic: anoço qujmotlatlalili, anoço ic mopoiauh, no qualnezquj celic, qualli.
\niehoatl in tevilotl ie tlaiectlalili, in ie macuextli, in ie cozcatl; in iuh mjtoa chopilotetl, in tlein cenca chipavac: no mjtoa chopilotl, in iuhquj mjtoa vel naltic, vel chopilotic.
\niztac, vel iztac, iztacpatic, chipactic, chipaccaltic; çan poxavac, çeio, hecauhio.
\niztac,
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"8119e1b7-f278-4d3c-9465-2bc7d4806bf5","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":"It has holes through it; it is pierced in places. Nowhere does it appear [big],[^3] even though long. [One] is white; one yellow, not really yellow, just blended, just a little light yellow blended. One is shaded tawny. One is green, one transparent, one dense, one shaded. This [flint] has fire. When it is struck, sparks come out from it, [which] burn, burn things, set things afire, cause things to ignite; [which] make ablaze, set flaming.\n\n##### Green flint[^4]\n\nIt resembles the green stone a little. The experienced lapidary names it *tecelic*. It is bespattered green, or layered [green], or so blended. Also it is beautiful, fresh, good.\n\n##### Fine crystal\n\nThis is the well-formed crystal, the bracelet, the necklace; that is to say, the *chopilotetl*.[^5] That which is very clear is also called *chopilotl*, that is to say, really transparent, much like the *chopilotl*.\n\n##### Tepochtli\n\nIt is white, really white, very white, clear, very clear; just soft; [sometimes] shaded.\n\n##### Aitztli or achalchiuitl[^6]\n\nIt is white, \n\n\n\n\n[^3]: *Acad. Hist. MS* adds *vei* after *neçi*.\n\n\n[^4]: Green jasper (Foshag, *loc. cit*.).\n\n\n[^5]: *Acad. Hist. MS: chopilotẽtetl*.\n\n\n[^6]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”piedra marmor … es la manera de marmor de españa.”*","html":"It has holes through it; it is pierced in places. Nowhere does it appear [big],1 even though long. [One] is white; one yellow, not really yellow, just blended, just a little light yellow blended. One is shaded tawny. One is green, one transparent, one dense, one shaded. This [flint] has fire. When it is struck, sparks come out from it, [which] burn, burn things, set things afire, cause things to ignite; [which] make ablaze, set flaming.
\nIt resembles the green stone a little. The experienced lapidary names it tecelic. It is bespattered green, or layered [green], or so blended. Also it is beautiful, fresh, good.
\nThis is the well-formed crystal, the bracelet, the necklace; that is to say, the chopilotetl.3 That which is very clear is also called chopilotl, that is to say, really transparent, much like the chopilotl.
\nIt is white, really white, very white, clear, very clear; just soft; [sometimes] shaded.
\nIt is white,
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