Hay unos cocarachuelos que se llaman tlalácatl. Críanse debaxo de tierra. Tienen pies y manos. Algunos dellos son colorados; otros, blanquecinos; otros, blancos. Críanse en lugares húmedos. No tienen ponzoña ni hacen mal.
\nHay un animalejo que se llama tapaxi o tapayaxi. Andan por los caminos. Son como lagartixas, un poco más anchuelos, y tienen espinas por el cuerpo, y una grande en la cabeza. Son pardillos. En el juntarse el macho con la hembra son como personas.
\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":"4f183540-971e-4a53-aa50-5c0c2a3a4f04","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 are some small cockroaches called _tlalacatl_. They live underground. They have arms and legs.[^52] Some of them are red, others are whitish, and others are white. They live in damp places. They are not poisonous or harmful.\n\nThere is a small animal that is called _tapaxi_ or _tapayaxin_. They frequent the roads. They are like lizards, though somewhat broader, and they have thorns all over their body, with a big one on their head. They are brownish. When the male mates with the female, they are like people. \n\n\n[^52]: “They have arms and legs”: “Tienen pies y manos.” Sahagún uses _pies y manos_ (hands and feet) in the Spanish here (and below) as synecdoche for arms and legs.","html":"There are some small cockroaches called tlalacatl. They live underground. They have arms and legs.1 Some of them are red, others are whitish, and others are white. They live in damp places. They are not poisonous or harmful.
\nThere is a small animal that is called tapaxi or tapayaxin. They frequent the roads. They are like lizards, though somewhat broader, and they have thorns all over their body, with a big one on their head. They are brownish. When the male mates with the female, they are like people.
\n“They have arms and legs”: “Tienen pies y manos.” Sahagún uses pies y manos (hands and feet) in the Spanish here (and below) as synecdoche for arms and legs.↩
in canjn panj tonacaiopan ommoteca, aquaqualaca iuhqujn motlatia. Inin ipaio in xiotl ca quaqualatza, qujpalanaltia.
\nxixipetzpil, mamae, ihicxe: cequj tlatlauhquj, cequj vel iztaque, cequj iztaleoac: vel innentla in tlacuechaoaian, in tlaçoltitlan atle itlachioal, çan monenemjtia, amo vellatoa: in nemjuhian, çan tlallan caquja in jtzontecon, iuhqujn tlatetecujtztica tlallan, injc tlatoa
\ncujtlapatlachtic, patlachtic mamae, ihicxe, cujtlapile: vitzio, aoaio: iuhqujn tepoçomjtotonti, icuexcochtlan manj. Auh injc tlalticpac tlamati: moquetztimanj, mjxnamjctimanj, anoço moteca, ce tlanj onoc, aquetztoc, ce panj onoc no moio[ma]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"9a8706fb-e9d4-45ab-9096-8a9ad9054310","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":"if it settles on the surface of our body, it boils up as if it were burned. The cure for this is [as for] skin sores.[^1] It keeps blistering; it putrefies.\n\n##### Tlalacatl\n\nIt is small and smooth. It has arms, it has legs. Some are ruddy, some very white, some pale. Their dwelling-place is in damp ground, among rubbish. It is harmless; it only goes about. It cannot make a pleasant sound. In desolate places it only puts its head into the ground; there is as it were a kicking din underground. Thus does it speak.\n\n##### Tapaxi or tapayaxi[^2]\n\nIt is broad-backed—broad. It has arms, it has legs, it has a tail. It is thorny, spiny, like metal awls extending along the back of its head. And thus they act in a worldly way: they mount, they mate, or they stretch out; one lies below, on its back; one lies above. Also \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: *Acad. Hist. MS: ỹ xixiotl* is added.\n\n\n[^2]: *Tapaxi, Tapayaxin: Phrynosoma asio, Ph. cornutum, Ph. orbiculare* (Sahagún, Garibay ed. Vol. IV, p. 352).","html":"if it settles on the surface of our body, it boils up as if it were burned. The cure for this is [as for] skin sores.1 It keeps blistering; it putrefies.
\nIt is small and smooth. It has arms, it has legs. Some are ruddy, some very white, some pale. Their dwelling-place is in damp ground, among rubbish. It is harmless; it only goes about. It cannot make a pleasant sound. In desolate places it only puts its head into the ground; there is as it were a kicking din underground. Thus does it speak.
\nIt is broad-backed—broad. It has arms, it has legs, it has a tail. It is thorny, spiny, like metal awls extending along the back of its head. And thus they act in a worldly way: they mount, they mate, or they stretch out; one lies below, on its back; one lies above. Also
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