[se]mejantes a los de Castilla. Llámanse michi. Son semejantes en la cola, que la tienen hendida o horcajada, y también en las alillas y en las escamas, y en tener el cuerpo ancho y el cuello grueso, y en ser ligeros, y en que se deslizan de las manos.
\nLos peces de la mar se llaman tlacamichi; quiere decir "peces grandes", "peces que andan en la mar", que son buenos de comer. Estos peces grandes comen a los pequeños.
\nLas anguillas o congrios se llaman coamichi, que quiere decir "culebra pez". Dícese "culebra" porque es largo como la culebra, y tiene la cabeza como la culebra; y dícese "pez" porque tiene la cola como pez, y tiene alillas como pez.
\nLa tortuga de la mar se llama chimalmichi, que quiere decir "rodela pez", porque tiene redonda la concha como rodela; y dícese pez porque tiene dentro pescado.
\nHay un pescado en la mar que se
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\nThe fish of the sea are called tlacamichin, which means “big fish,” “fish that live in the sea,” and they are good to eat. These big fish eat the small ones.
\nThe eels and the conger eels are called coamichin, which means “snake fish.” It is called “snake” because it is long like a snake and has a head like a snake; and it is called “fish” because it has a tail like a fish and fins like a fish.
\nThe sea turtle is called chimalmichin, which means “shield fish,” because it has a shell that is round like a shield; and it is called “fish” because it has a fish inside.
\nThere is a fish in the sea that is
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\nq. n. vei mjchi, vei apan, ilhujcaapan nemjnj: velic, haviac, qualonj, tlaçotli maviztic. Auh in jtlaqual: mjchtepitzitzin, mjchcocone.
\niuhqujn cooatl itzõtecon. Auh in jcujtlapil, in jatlapal, in jxincaio, çan ie ie in mjchi, vel chiaoa.
\nvei apan in nemj, iaoaltic, iuhqujn chimalli: cujtlapile, amatlapale: mjchtzontecomatl in jtzontecon.
\ninj moteneoa to[tomjchin,]
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\nThat is, a large fish, a dweller of the sea, the ocean: savory, good to the taste, edible, rare, wonderful. And its food is small fish, baby fish.
\nIts head is like that of a serpent. But its tail, its fins, its scales are the same as those of a fish. It is quite oily.
\nIt lives in the sea. It is round, like a shield. It has a tail, fins; its head is the head of a fish.
\nThis so-called
\nTlacamichin: Described in Hernández, op. cit., p. 398. See also Cecilio A. Robelo: Diccionario de Mitologia Nahuatl (Mexico: Ediciones Fuente Cultural, 1951), p. 340.↩
Coamichin: Anguila cuv. (Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. IV, p. 327). See also Hernández, op. cit., p. 400.↩
Chimalmichin: Chelonia imbricata. Rafael Martín del Campo, “Ensayo de interpretación del Libro Undécimo de la Historia de Sahagún,” *Anales del Instituto de Biología, Vol. IX, Nos. 3 and 4 (Mexico, 1938), p. 390.↩