Hay otra culebra que se llama xicalcóatl; quiere decir "culebra de xícara". Hay unas grandes; otras pequeñas. Críanse en el agua. Cuando son grandes tienen en el lomo natural nacida una xícara muy pintada de todas colores y todos labores. Esta culebra, cuando quiere cazar personas, llégase a donde pasan caminantes, y demuestra la xícara sobre el agua, que anda nadando. Y ella escóndese debaxo della, que no parece. Y los que pasan por allí, como ven la xícara, éntranse en el agua a tomarle. Y ella poco a poco se va allegando hacia lo hondo, y el que va a tomarla vase tras ella; y llegando a donde está hondo, comienza a turbarse el agua, y hace
\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":"83143184-5dbb-404f-9ada-25f7cf093f60","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":"There is another snake that is called _xicalcoatl_; it means “_jícara_ snake.”[^50] Some of them are big; others are small. They live in the water. When they are mature, they have on their back a naturally produced _jícara_ that is well decorated with every color and all kinds of designs. Whenever this snake wants to hunt people, it goes to a place where wayfarers are passing by and shows its _jícara_ on the water, as it keeps swimming. And it hides under [the _jícara_] [in such a way] that [the snake] is not visible. And those who are passing by there wade into the water when they see the _jícara_, in order to take it. And [the snake] gradually goes down toward the deep, and the one who goes to take it goes after it. And as it reaches a deep spot, the water begins to stir, making \n\n\n[^50]: _jícara_: Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word _xicalli_ (gourd).","html":"There is another snake that is called xicalcoatl; it means “jícara snake.”1 Some of them are big; others are small. They live in the water. When they are mature, they have on their back a naturally produced jícara that is well decorated with every color and all kinds of designs. Whenever this snake wants to hunt people, it goes to a place where wayfarers are passing by and shows its jícara on the water, as it keeps swimming. And it hides under [the jícara] [in such a way] that [the snake] is not visible. And those who are passing by there wade into the water when they see the jícara, in order to take it. And [the snake] gradually goes down toward the deep, and the one who goes to take it goes after it. And as it reaches a deep spot, the water begins to stir, making
\njícara: Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word xicalli (gourd).↩
xicalli itech mjtoa, yoan cooatl cequj vei, cequj tepiton; atlan chane; qujtoa: inic vei cooatl, iuhqujn vei xicalpechtli icujtlapan manj. Auh in oc piltontli: iuhqujn xicaltontli, icujtlapan manj. Auh inin xicalli: vel itech cenqujzca ca in tlapalli, injc tlacujcujlolli, vel cujcujltic, tlamomoxôtolti cujcujlchampochtic.
\nInin cooatl: vel itetlacaanaia, iuhqujn xicalli: in jquac tlamaznequj, pani valmoteca, iece amo monextia çannjo in xicalli in jcujtlapan mani in panj qujoalmana: nelli vel tetlanecti, iuhqujn aatocotinemj, (vellamomoxoltic. Auh in aqujmamatcaoa: in jicol in jztlaccomoc, in momati ca oqujmottili: auh ca oqujcnopilhuj, in cenca qualli xicalli, njman ontemo in atlan: in qujcujznequj çan mjquanjtiuh, vmpa qujtocatiuh, çan
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"170c633e-c9a2-4f19-893b-f30d7c19dbe5","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":"##### Xicalcoatl[^1]\n\nIt is named for *xicalli* and *coatl*. Some are large, some small; they are water-dwellers. They say of the large serpent that something like a large gourd bowlies upon its back; and of the still small one that something like a small gourd bowl lies upon its back. And this gourd bowl: the coloring with which it is painted is part of it. It is well painted; it is intricately designed,[^2] like ear pendants.\n\nThis serpent’s organ for hunting people is like a gourd bowl. When it wishes to hunt, it extends itself along the surface [of the water]; however, it shows nothing of itself except the gourd bowl which is upon its back, which it places on the surface. Indeed it makes it desirable, as if it were going carried by the water, intricately designed. And an ignorant one with avarice, with covetousness, considers that it has been shown to him, and that he merits a very good gourd bowl; then he descends into the water. When he wishes to take it, it only goes drifting away; he goes to follow it there; little by little \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: *Xicalcoatl:* unident. watersnake (Santamaría, *op. cit.,* p. 633; *jicalcoate*).\n\n\n[^2]: *Acad. Hist. MS: tlamomoxoltic*.","html":"It is named for xicalli and coatl. Some are large, some small; they are water-dwellers. They say of the large serpent that something like a large gourd bowlies upon its back; and of the still small one that something like a small gourd bowl lies upon its back. And this gourd bowl: the coloring with which it is painted is part of it. It is well painted; it is intricately designed,2 like ear pendants.
\nThis serpent’s organ for hunting people is like a gourd bowl. When it wishes to hunt, it extends itself along the surface [of the water]; however, it shows nothing of itself except the gourd bowl which is upon its back, which it places on the surface. Indeed it makes it desirable, as if it were going carried by the water, intricately designed. And an ignorant one with avarice, with covetousness, considers that it has been shown to him, and that he merits a very good gourd bowl; then he descends into the water. When he wishes to take it, it only goes drifting away; he goes to follow it there; little by little
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