[de]lante de los demonios por su devoción en días señalados, y hacían desta manera: si querían derramar sangre de la lengua, pasábanla con una punta de navaja, y por el agujero que hacían pasaban muchas pajas gruesas de heno, según la devoción de cada uno. Algunos atábanlas unas con las otras y tirábanlas, como quien tira un cordel, pasándolas por el agujero de la lengua. Otros, cada una por sí, sacaban cantidad dellas y dexábanlas allí, ensangrentadas, delante del demonio o en los caminos o en los calpulcos. Lo mismo hacían de los brazos y de las piernas.
\nDerramaban también sangre los sátrapas fuera de los cúes, por esas montañas o cuevas por su devoción, de noche. Hacían desta manera, que tomaban que tomaban [sic, repetido] cañas verdes y puntas de maguey, y después de haberlas ensangrentado con la sangre que sacaban de sus piernas de cabe las espinillas, iban de noche desnudos a los montes donde tenían devoción, y ansí ensangrentadas las dexaban allí sobre un lechuelo de hojas de cañas que les hacían, y esto hacían en cuatro o cinco partes, según la devoción de cada uno.
\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":"91df60a9-52b7-4fae-812b-4aac7ba8a941","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":"out of their devotion, in front of the demons on special days, and they would do so in this manner: if they wanted to shed blood from their tongue, they would pierce it through with the point of a blade and then pass many thick pieces of straw—according to [each one’s] devotion—through the hole they made. Some people would tie [these pieces of straw] together, end to end, and pull them through the hole in their tongue, like someone who is pulling a string. Others would pull out a large number of them, one by one, and leave them there, covered in blood, in front of the demon or on the roads or in the _calpulcos_. They would do the same to their arms and legs.\n\nMoved by their devotion, the satraps would also shed blood at night outside of the _cúes_, throughout these mountains or caves. They would do it in this manner: they would take[^205] green reeds and maguey spikes, and after smearing them with the blood that they drew from their legs near their shins, they would go naked at night to the mountains where they performed their devotions; and they would leave them smeared with blood like that on a small bed that they would make for them out of green reeds. And they would do this in four or five places, according to each one’s devotion. \n\n\n[^205]: “They would take”: _que tomaban que tomaban_, erroneously repeated in the manuscript and reproduced, with the error noted, in LAGQ 1:284.","html":"out of their devotion, in front of the demons on special days, and they would do so in this manner: if they wanted to shed blood from their tongue, they would pierce it through with the point of a blade and then pass many thick pieces of straw—according to [each one’s] devotion—through the hole they made. Some people would tie [these pieces of straw] together, end to end, and pull them through the hole in their tongue, like someone who is pulling a string. Others would pull out a large number of them, one by one, and leave them there, covered in blood, in front of the demon or on the roads or in the calpulcos. They would do the same to their arms and legs.
\nMoved by their devotion, the satraps would also shed blood at night outside of the cúes, throughout these mountains or caves. They would do it in this manner: they would take1 green reeds and maguey spikes, and after smearing them with the blood that they drew from their legs near their shins, they would go naked at night to the mountains where they performed their devotions; and they would leave them smeared with blood like that on a small bed that they would make for them out of green reeds. And they would do this in four or five places, according to each one’s devotion.
\n“They would take”: que tomaban que tomaban, erroneously repeated in the manuscript and reproduced, with the error noted, in LAGQ 1:284.↩
[muchiva]ia çan no ipan in tlein tonalli in tlacoqujstiloia,
\nauh çan novjian aço inacazco, anoço in aqujn quinequiz inenepilco, anoço imetzpan, auh injc qujcoionjaia inacaio iehoatl in vitzauhquj in itztli, auh ic niman vncan quiqujstiaia in tlacutl, anoço çacatl, auh injc qujtilinjaia in inacaio mecatica injc vncan quiquistiaia tlacutl injc tlamacevaloia,
\nauh in jcoac otlacuquistiloc, in muztlaioc tlachpanoia muchpanaia in tlacutl yoan in çacatl cēca ezço, auh in muchivaia y, ichan Diablo anoço vtli in vncan manj Diablome.
\nJn nevitzmanaliztli ic muchivaia concuja in acxoiatl yoan contequja in mevitztli, auh quezvjaia ic qujvalmanaia in ipã acxoiatl vme in vitztli
\nnoviian in aca aço vccan anoço excan in qujmanaia vitztli, anoço macuilcan çan teiollotlama.
\nthus done, only it was at a time of a reasonable day sign that straws were drawn.
\nAnd quite everywhere [was it done], perchance on one’s ear [lobe], or, whoever willed it, his tongue or his thigh. And to pierce one’s flesh, a thorn-like obsidian point [was used]. And then they drew through there a twig or a straw. And in order to pull them through his flesh, the twigs [were tied] with a cord in order to draw them through there, in order to perform penance.
\nAnd when the twig had been passed through, next day the twigs and straws were swept up. They were much bloodied. And this was done in the home of the devil or along roads where there were devils.
\nThe offering of thorns was thus performed: they plucked fir branches and cut maguey spines, and they bloodied them. Thus they laid two maguey spines on the fir branches as offerings.
\nEverywhere one laid the maguey spines as offerings in perhaps two places, or three places, or five places. It was quite of one’s own will.
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