moscas comiéndola. Por donde quiera que va, va hediendo, y van tras ellas las moscas zumbando o zuniendo. Es muy ponzoñosa. A quien muerde no escapa; no tiene medicina: púdrese y así muere.
\nHay otra serpiente que se llama ecacóatl o ecahua. Esta culebra es mediana, no es muy gruesa; pero es larga. Llega hasta tener tres o cuatro brazas de largo. Es amarilla y colorada y verde y blanca por los lomos, rayados con estos colores. No es ponzoñosa; pero cuando la hace mal o cuando caza, revuélvese a lo que quiere matar, y mátalo apretando. Llámase esta culebra ecacóatl, que quiere decir "culebra del viento", porque cuando va alguna parte, si es tierra llana, va levantada sobre la cola, como volando; y si son matas o zacatlales, va por encima dello, volando. Y por donde va parece que echa de sí un aire delgado.
\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":"fde8ea68-cf08-401a-8828-05e9243ec2e0","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":"along with it, eating it. It spreads its stench wherever it goes, and the flies go buzzing or whirring after it. It is very poisonous. One who is bitten cannot escape. There is no medicine [for this ailment]: [this person] rots away and thus dies.\n\nThere is another snake called _ehecacoatl_ or _ehecahua_.[^48] This snake is medium sized. It is not too thick, but it is long. It reaches up to three or four fathoms in length. It is yellow, red, green, and white on its back, which is streaked with these colors. It is not poisonous, but when [something] harms it or when it hunts, it coils around what it wants to kill and kills it by squeezing it. This snake is called _ehecacoatl_,[^49] which means “wind snake,” because when it goes somewhere—if it is flat terrain—it rises up on its tail, as if it were flying. And if there are bushes or _zacatlales_, it goes flying over them. And it looks like it is exhaling some sort of thin air as it goes. \n\n\n[^48]: _ehecacoatl_ . . . _ehecahua_: _ecacóatl_ . . . _ecahua_ in LAGQ.\n\n[^49]: _ehecacoatl_: _ecacóatl_ in LAGQ.","html":"along with it, eating it. It spreads its stench wherever it goes, and the flies go buzzing or whirring after it. It is very poisonous. One who is bitten cannot escape. There is no medicine [for this ailment]: [this person] rots away and thus dies.
\nThere is another snake called ehecacoatl or ehecahua.1 This snake is medium sized. It is not too thick, but it is long. It reaches up to three or four fathoms in length. It is yellow, red, green, and white on its back, which is streaked with these colors. It is not poisonous, but when [something] harms it or when it hunts, it coils around what it wants to kill and kills it by squeezing it. This snake is called ehecacoatl,2 which means “wind snake,” because when it goes somewhere—if it is flat terrain—it rises up on its tail, as if it were flying. And if there are bushes or zacatlales, it goes flying over them. And it looks like it is exhaling some sort of thin air as it goes.
\ncampa otlatoca vmpa hiiaxtiuh, cololhujtivi in çaiolti, qujcaoatztivi: auh ca nel noço palancacooatl, in aqujn qujqua, aocmo qujça, ça aoc tle ipaio: injc mjquj vellantiuh in palanj.
\nçan ipan qualli, amo cen tomaoac, ie viac, in omacic nãmatl, ematl: coztic, chichiltic, xoxoctic, iztac in qujmoquequechili icujtlapan, injc movavavã, amo tequani: çan in jquac qualanjlo, anoço in tlama, ça tetech motecuja, temecapatzca, anoço tequechmateloa.
\nInic mjtoa hecacooatl: in jquac otlatoca moquetzteoa, in tlalnemjuhian moquetztiuh, çã icujtlapil injc tlacçatiuh; iuhqujnma patlantiuh. Auh in çacatla, in tlacutla, çan icpac in qujça, in iauh: auh in vncã iauh, iuhqujn hecapitzactli qujça.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"df394400-b7c5-4f8c-b9d9-d2a8e728c705","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":"wherever it travels the road, there it goes stinking; with it the flies go swarming, they go along buzzing. And it is indeed a *palancacoatl*: whomever it bites no more escapes; it has no cure, so that he dies, he is consumed by the suppuration.\n\n##### Hecacoatl or hecaua[^3]\n\nIt is of average size, not very[^4] thick. It is long; when mature it is four [or] three fathoms. It is yellow, chili-red, green, white, which run along its back; it is striped with them. It is not poisonous; only when it is made angry, or when it hunts, it just coils itself about one, crushes one, or chokes one.\n\nIt is called *hecacoatl* because when it travels it raises itself erect. On level land, it goes standing on the end of its tail; it is as if it went flying along. And when it emerges on grasses, on bushes, when it goes there, it is as if a narrow current of air emerged.\n\n\n\n\n[^3]: *Hecacoatl:* probably *Masticophis taeniatus taeniatus* (*loc. cit*.).\n\n\n[^4]: *Acad. Hist. MS: cẽca*.","html":"wherever it travels the road, there it goes stinking; with it the flies go swarming, they go along buzzing. And it is indeed a palancacoatl: whomever it bites no more escapes; it has no cure, so that he dies, he is consumed by the suppuration.
\nIt is of average size, not very2 thick. It is long; when mature it is four [or] three fathoms. It is yellow, chili-red, green, white, which run along its back; it is striped with them. It is not poisonous; only when it is made angry, or when it hunts, it just coils itself about one, crushes one, or chokes one.
\nIt is called hecacoatl because when it travels it raises itself erect. On level land, it goes standing on the end of its tail; it is as if it went flying along. And when it emerges on grasses, on bushes, when it goes there, it is as if a narrow current of air emerged.
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