Tenían los populares por costumbre de hacer penitencia muchos días entre año, y esta penitencia era que se abstenían de xabonarse la cabeza y de los baños, y de dormir con mujer, y la mujer con hombre, los días que hacían esta penitencia. Y no se abstenían de comer ni ayunaban. A esto llamaban nezahualiztli.
\nCuando hacían una fiesta que llamaban atamalcualiztli, que era de ocho en ocho años, unos indios que se llamaban mazatécah tragaban unas culebras vivas, por valentía, y andaban bailando y tragándolas poco a poco. Y después que les habían tragado, dábanles mantas por su valentía.
\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":"14aaaeaa-caf6-4cd1-b0e5-5d5e92a7783c","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":"The common people had the custom of performing penance for many days throughout the year; and this penance would consist of them abstaining from washing their heads with soap, from bathing, and from sleeping with women and women [from sleeping] with men during those days that they would be performing this penance. And they would not abstain from eating, nor would they fast. And they called this _nezahualiztli_.[^207]\n\n#### Account of certain ceremonies that were performed in honor of the devil\n\nWhenever they would celebrate a festival that they called Atamalcualiztli, which occurred every eight years, some Indians who were called _mazatecah_ would swallow some live snakes as a sign of bravery; and they would go around dancing and swallowing them bit by bit. And after they had swallowed them, they would give them blankets on account of their bravery.\n\n\n[^207]: The Catholic full fast consisted in abstaining from food and drink (water excepted) for a whole day and night. The Mexicans’ _nezahualiztli_ fast involved the full abstention from food not for a full day but only for part of it.","html":"The common people had the custom of performing penance for many days throughout the year; and this penance would consist of them abstaining from washing their heads with soap, from bathing, and from sleeping with women and women [from sleeping] with men during those days that they would be performing this penance. And they would not abstain from eating, nor would they fast. And they called this nezahualiztli.1
\nWhenever they would celebrate a festival that they called Atamalcualiztli, which occurred every eight years, some Indians who were called mazatecah would swallow some live snakes as a sign of bravery; and they would go around dancing and swallowing them bit by bit. And after they had swallowed them, they would give them blankets on account of their bravery.
\nThe Catholic full fast consisted in abstaining from food and drink (water excepted) for a whole day and night. The Mexicans’ nezahualiztli fast involved the full abstention from food not for a full day but only for part of it.↩
anoço ie tlathujnaoac, ipampa in, vel qujpiaia in ioalli, yoã qujpiaia in tletl.
\nInic neçaoaloia amo tlacatlaqualoia, çan ie aiac mamoviaia, aiac motemaia, anoiac cioacochia: çanyio yquac in panquetzaliztli, tlacatlaqualoia chicomilhujtl.
\nInic muchioaia, in coatl qujtolooaia, iquac yn atamalqualoia qujchioaia: moteneoaia maçateca, çan ioltiuja in qujntoloaia, çan incamatica in qujmonanaia, qujnxaxamatztiuja, ynic qujntoloaia. Auh yn jquac oq͗ntoloque, çatepan motlauhtiaia, yn iuhquj ipan omito, atamalqualoia chicuexiuhtica.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"b062425c-69b3-417d-aebb-d5835a89aa22","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":"or already near dawn. Because of this they faithfully kept watch all night and tended the fire. \n\n##### Abstinence \n\nThus was there abstaining: there was no fasting. Only no one washed himself with *amolli* soap, no one bathed in the steam bath, nor did anyone lie with a woman. Only at the time of [the feast of] Panquetzaliztli there was fasting for seven days. \n\n\n#### Here are Told, in Very Truth, the Offerings Which They Made, with Which They Paid Honor to the Devil \n\n##### The Swallowing of Serpents \n\nThus was it done. Those who swallowed serpents at the time that water tamales were eaten did this. They were known as Maçateca. [The serpents] went quite alive when they swallowed them. They just seized them with their mouths; they went cutting them to pieces [with their teeth], in order to swallow them. And when they had swallowed them, then they were given gifts, as was told in [its place. This was when] water tamales were eaten every eight years.","html":"or already near dawn. Because of this they faithfully kept watch all night and tended the fire.
\nThus was there abstaining: there was no fasting. Only no one washed himself with amolli soap, no one bathed in the steam bath, nor did anyone lie with a woman. Only at the time of [the feast of] Panquetzaliztli there was fasting for seven days.
\nThus was it done. Those who swallowed serpents at the time that water tamales were eaten did this. They were known as Maçateca. [The serpents] went quite alive when they swallowed them. They just seized them with their mouths; they went cutting them to pieces [with their teeth], in order to swallow them. And when they had swallowed them, then they were given gifts, as was told in [its place. This was when] water tamales were eaten every eight years.
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