En el signo que se llamaba ce miquiztli, en la primera casa, hacían gran fiesta los señores y principales a Tezcatlipuca, que era el gran dios. Decían que éste era su sino. Como todos ellos tenían sus oratorios en sus casas, donde tenían las imágines deste dios y de muchos otros, en este día componían esta imagen y ofrecíanla perfumes y flores y comida, y sacrificaban codornices delante della, arrancándolas la cabeza. Esto no solamente lo hacían los señores y principales, pero toda la gente a cuya noticia venía esta fiesta. Y lo mismo se hacía en los calpules y en todos los cúes. Todos oraban y demandaban a este dios que les hiciese mercedes, pues que él era todopoderoso.
\nEn el signo que se llamaba ce quiáhuitl, en la primera casa, hacían fiesta a las diosas que llamaban cihuapipilti. Éstas decían que eran las mujeres que murían del primero parto. Decían que se hacían diosas y que moraban en la casa del Sol, y que cuando reinaba este signo descendían a la tierra y herían con diversas emfermedades a los que topaban fuera de sus casas, y por esto en estos días no osaban salir de sus casas. Tenían edificados oratorios a honra destas diosas en todos los barrios donde había dos calles, los cuales llamaban cihuateucalli, o por otro nombre cihuateupan. En estos oratorios tenían las imágines destas diosas, y en estos días las adornaban con papeles, que llamaban amatetéhuitl. En esta fiesta destas diosas mataban a su honra los condenados a muerte por algún delicto, que estaban en las cárceles.
\nEn el signo llamado ce quiáhuitl, en la cuarta casa, que se llamaba nauhécatl, por ser esta casa muy mal afortunado, mataban en ella los malhechores que estaban presos, y también el señor hacía matar algunos esclavos, por vía de superstición. Y los mercaderes y tratantes hacían alarde o demostración de las joyas en que trataban, sacándolas para que las viesen todos, y después a la noche comían y bebían. Tomaban flores y aquellas cañas de perfumes, y asentábanse en sus asi[entos]
\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":"a0961449-ad35-4fbf-a8fe-fe8173477f40","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":"Under the sign that was called Ce Miquiztli, in its first house, the lords and the nobles would celebrate a great festival for Tezcatlipoca, who was the great god. They said that this was his sign. Since all of them had altars in their own homes where they would keep the images of this god and of many others, they would adorn this [particular] image on this day and offer it perfumes and flowers and food; and they would sacrifice quails in front of it, by tearing off their heads. Not only would the lords and the nobles do this, but also all the people who learned of this festival. And the same thing would be done in the _calpules_ and in all the _cúes_. Everyone would pray and ask for mercies from this god, because he was almighty. \n\t\n##### The eighth movable feast\n\nUnder the sign called Ce Quiahuitl, in its first house, they would celebrate a festival for the goddesses whom they called Cihuapipiltin. They said that these were women who had died in their first childbirth. They said that they had become goddesses and lived in the house of the sun. And when this sign ruled, they would descend to earth and wound with various diseases those whom they met outside of their homes; and this is why they would not dare leave their homes during those days. They had shrines built in honor of these goddesses in all of the barrios where two roads crossed, [shrines] that they called _cihuateocalli_, or by another name, _cihuateopan_. They kept the images of these goddesses in these shrines, and during those days, they would adorn them with papers that they called _amatetehuitl_. During these goddesses’ festival, they would kill in their honor those who had been condemned to death for a crime and who were in the jails. \n\n##### The ninth movable feast\n\nUnder the sign called Ce Quiahuitl, in its fourth house, which is called Nahui Ehecatl, they would kill the criminals who had been apprehended, because this house was very unlucky; and the lord would also have some slaves killed out of superstition. And the merchants and dealers would show off and display the jewels of their trade, taking them out for everyone to see, and later on at night, they would eat and drink. They would hold flowers and those tubes for perfumes,[^57] sit on their seats,\n\n\n[^57]: That is, tubes for smoking tobacco, or _yetl_.","html":"Under the sign that was called Ce Miquiztli, in its first house, the lords and the nobles would celebrate a great festival for Tezcatlipoca, who was the great god. They said that this was his sign. Since all of them had altars in their own homes where they would keep the images of this god and of many others, they would adorn this [particular] image on this day and offer it perfumes and flowers and food; and they would sacrifice quails in front of it, by tearing off their heads. Not only would the lords and the nobles do this, but also all the people who learned of this festival. And the same thing would be done in the calpules and in all the cúes. Everyone would pray and ask for mercies from this god, because he was almighty.
\nUnder the sign called Ce Quiahuitl, in its first house, they would celebrate a festival for the goddesses whom they called Cihuapipiltin. They said that these were women who had died in their first childbirth. They said that they had become goddesses and lived in the house of the sun. And when this sign ruled, they would descend to earth and wound with various diseases those whom they met outside of their homes; and this is why they would not dare leave their homes during those days. They had shrines built in honor of these goddesses in all of the barrios where two roads crossed, [shrines] that they called cihuateocalli, or by another name, cihuateopan. They kept the images of these goddesses in these shrines, and during those days, they would adorn them with papers that they called amatetehuitl. During these goddesses’ festival, they would kill in their honor those who had been condemned to death for a crime and who were in the jails.
\nUnder the sign called Ce Quiahuitl, in its fourth house, which is called Nahui Ehecatl, they would kill the criminals who had been apprehended, because this house was very unlucky; and the lord would also have some slaves killed out of superstition. And the merchants and dealers would show off and display the jewels of their trade, taking them out for everyone to see, and later on at night, they would eat and drink. They would hold flowers and those tubes for perfumes,1 sit on their seats,
\nThat is, tubes for smoking tobacco, or yetl.↩
In the sign which was called ce miquiztli, in the first house, the lords and leading men celebrated a great feast to Tezcatlipoca, who was the great god. They said that this was his sign. Since all of them had their shrines in their houses, where they kept the images of this god and of many others, on this day they decorated this image and offered it perfumes, flowers, and food, and sacrificed quail before it, tearing off their heads. This not only the lords and leading men did, but all the people to whose attention this festival came; and the same was done in the calpulcos and on all the pyramids. All prayed, and besought of this god that he grant them favors, for [it was thought] that he was almighty.
\nIn the sign which was called ce quiauitl, in the first house, they celebrated a feast to the goddesses whom they named Ciuapipilti. These, they said, were the women who died in first childbed. They said that they became goddesses and that they dwelt in the house of the sun; and that when this sign reigned, they came down to the earth and afflicted with various sicknesses those whom they met outside of their houses. And hence, in these days, they dared not go out of their houses. They had shrines built in honor of these goddesses in all the suburbs where two streets [crossed], which they called ciuateocalli, or by another name, ciuateopan. In these shrines they had the images of the goddesses, and on these days they adorned them with papers which they called amateteuitl. On this feast of these goddesses they slew in their honor those condemned to death for some crime, who were in the jails.
\nIn the sign named ce quiauitl, in the fourth house (which was called naui ecatl), because this house was very unlucky they slew in it the malefactors who were imprisoned. And likewise the lord had a number of slaves slain as a superstition. And the merchants and traders made a show or demonstration of the jewels in which they dealt, bringing them forth so that all might see them. And afterwards, at night, they ate and drank, and held flowers and those canes of perfume. And they sat in their
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