Onoalico, onoalico
\npoma ia, yiaia, ayio, ayio, aia, aia, aia, ayio.
Chimalocutitlana
\nmotlaquevia
\navetzi nj,
\nnonovalco,
\nquanochitla
\ncacavatla
\nmotlaquevia,
\navetzi nj.
Nitepanecatl aia cuecuexi
\nniquetzalcoatl y, aia
\ncuecuexi.
Ca ne, ca ia itziueponj
\nca ne, ca ia itziveponj.
\nOtomico,
\nnoioco,
\nnavaco
\nmexicame ia iavilili
\nnoioco,
\nnavaco,
\nmexicame ia.
A chimalica ia xo, xa v in oqu jia, vilili
\nnoioco,
\nnavaco
\nmexicame ia.
Cane
\ncana ichan, aiopechcatl
\ncozcapantica mjxjuhtoc.
Cane
\ncana ichan aiopechcatl
\ncozcapantica mjxiuhtoc
cane ichan
\nchacaioliva ia.
Aiavalmeva ia,
\nvia, xiva
\nxivalmeva ia avia ia
\niancujpilla
\nxjvalmeva ia.
In Nonoalco1
\nIn Nonoalco
\nIs flowery scent2
In shielding pines
\nIt clothes itself3
\nThis will not fall4
\nIn Nonoalco
\nThe eagle cactus fruit
\nIn theobroma [flowers]
\nClothes itself
\nThis will not fall
I am the Tepaneca man Cuecuexin
\nI am the serpent god with plumes5
\nCuecuexin6
I am just the god of wind bearing
\nthe obsidian blades7
\nI am just the god of wind bearing
\nthe obsidian blades
In the land of Otomís
\nIn the Nonoalcan land8
\nIn the Nahuatlacan land
\nThe Mexicans find joy9
\nIn the Nonoalcan land
\nIn the Nahuatlacan land
\nThe Mexicans
With shields they yet find joy10
\nIn the Nonoalcan land
\nIn the Nahuatlacan land
\nThe Mexicans
Somewhere1
\nSomewhere in Ayopechtli’s home
\nShe lies with necklace jewels bedight2
\nGiving birth
Somewhere
\nSomewhere in Ayopechtli’s home
\nShe lies with necklace jewels bedight
\nGiving birth
\nSomewhere in her home
\nThe little mite3
\nIs given life
Bestir yourself4
\nBe sent
\nBestir yourself
\nNew child
\nBestir yourself
Read Nonoalco.↩
Read poyoma: same as poyomatli, unidentified aromatic-narcotic fern, root, or possibly flower (Charles E. Dibble and Arthur J. O. Anderson, Florentine Codex, Book X, The People [Santa Fe: School of American Research and University of Utah, 1974], p. 88, n. 39). It is further commented upon by Garibay in Veinte himnos, p. 121.↩
motlaquenuia.↩
nj: read inin. Seler reads the phrase avetzini, “der Herabfallende” (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Vol. II, pp. 1038, 1040).↩
In the Real Palacio MS, the spelling may be niquetzal ce atlj If so, it is Quetzalcoatl in another aspect, according to Garibay, Veinte himnos, p. 125.↩
In Veinte himnos, pp. 119–20, 124, Garibay regards Cuecuexin as a Tepaneca god-name related to Quetzalcoatl. Seler relates the term to macuextli, chalchiuhcuecuextli, etc., draws attention to cuecuextzin as a term of endearment applied to those dead in war, and translates it as “das Edelsteinarmband” (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Vol. II, pp. 1038, 1043).↩
ca ne, ca ia itziueponj: read ça ni-ecatl itziuepani, a practical possibility suggested in Garibay, Veinte himnos, pp. 119, 125–26. Seler’s reading (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Vol. II, pp. 1038, 1044) is as canin cueponi, “wo blühte er auf?”↩
Garibay (Veinte himnos, pp. 117, 127) reads this as noyonco and relates the term to Nonoalco; “podremos aventurar la versión que doy,” he says, while admitting as also possible Seler’s translation as “im Nachbarlande” (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Vol. II, pp. 1038, 1044).↩
ia avilili, jia vilili: Garibay (Veinte himnos, pp. 117, 127) reads these as ya avilili; the verb is applicative of auia. He reads xo, xa v in oqu as Xaxa! Auh in oc. For Seler, these phrases are iyauililli, “wurde er dargebracht” and xaxauhyoc, “mit Bemalung versehen” (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Vol. II, pp. 1039, 1044).↩
Ibid.↩