[lla]mábanlos Cócotl, como al mismo monte, y aderezábanlos con unos papeles la mitad colorados y la mitad leonados. El séptimo lugar donde mataban los niños era un monte que llaman Yiauhqueme, que está cabe Atlacuihuaya. Poníanlos el nombre del mismo monte. Ataviábanlos con unos papeles tenidos de color leonado.
\nEstos tristes niños, antes que los llevasen a matar, aderezábanlos con piedras preciosas, con plumas ricas y con mantas y maxtles muy curiosas y labradas, y con gotaras muy labradas y curiosas, y poníanlos unas alas de papel como ángeles, y teñíanlos las caras con aceite de ulli, y en medio de las mexillas los ponían una rodaxita de blanco. Y poníanlos en unas andas muy aderezadas, con plumas ricas y con otras joyas ricas, y llevándolos en las andas íbanles tañendo con flautas y trompetas que ellos usaban. Y por donde los llevaban, toda la gente lloraba. Cuando llegaban con ellos a un oratorio que estaba junto a Tepetzinco, de la parte del occidente, al cual llamaban Tozocan, allí los tenían toda una noche velando y cantábanlos cantares los sacerdotes de los ídolos porque no dormiesen. Y cuando ya llegaban los niños a los lugares a donde los habían de matar, si iban llorando y echaban muchas lágrimas, allegábanse1 los que los vían llorar porque decían que era señal que lluvería presto. Y si topaban en el camino algún hidrópico, teníanlo por mal agüero y decían que ellos inpidían la lluvia.
\nSi alguno de los ministros del templo, y otros que llamaban cuacuacuilti, y los viejos, se volvían a sus casas y no llegaban a donde habían de matar los niños,
\nDebe decir "alegrábanse".↩
there Cocotl, just like the hill itself; and they would dress them with some papers, half of which were red and the other half tawny. The seventh place where they would kill children was a hill that they call Yiauhqueme, which is near Atlacuihuayan. They would give them the name of the mountain itself. They would dress them with some papers dyed a tawny color.
\nBefore taking them to be killed, they would adorn these wretched children with precious stones, valuable feathers, very finely embroidered capes and mastles,1 and finely carved sandals. And they would put some paper wings on them, like angels, and dye their faces with olli oil; and in the middle of their cheeks, they would paint a small, white disk.
\nAnd they would place them on some litters that were highly adorned with valuable feathers and other rich jewels. And as they carried them on the litters, they would be playing music for them on the flutes and trumpets that they used. And all the people would weep wherever they carried them. When they arrived with them at a shrine that was near Tepetzinco—in its western part—called Tozohcan, they would spend a whole night there keeping vigil and guarding them; and the priests of the idols would sing songs for them so that they would not fall asleep. And when the children were about to reach the places where they were to be killed, if they happened to go along weeping and shedding many tears, those who saw them crying would rejoice, for they said that this was a sign that it would soon rain. And if they happened to meet on the road some person who had edema, they would consider it to be a bad omen, for they said that these people hindered the rain.
\nIf any of the ministers of the temple or others whom they called cuacuacuiltin or older people returned home without having reached the place where the children were to be killed, they
\nmastles: plural Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl maxtlatl (loincloth).↩
[tlaço]tlantiuj, qujmamatlapaltia, amatl, amaamatlapaleque: tlapechtica in vicoia, quetzalcallotiuja, yn vncã momantiujia, qujntlapichilitiuja:
\ncenca tlatlaocultiaia, techoctiaia, techoquizvitomaia, teicnotlamachtiaia, ynca elciciooaia.
\nAuh yn oaxitiloque toçocan, aiauhcalco, vncan ceiooal toçaujlo, qujntoçaviia tlamacazque: yoan in quaquacujlti, iehoan in ie veuetque tlamacazque. Auh in tlamacazque, yn o ceme ontetlalcaujque, motocaiotiaia mocauhque: aocmo tecujcananamiquj, aoccan onmonequj, aoccan onpoalo.
\nAuh in pipiltzitzinti, intla chocatiuj, intla imixaio totocatiuh, intla imixaio pipilcatiuh, mitoaia, moteneoaia, ca qujiauiz: yn imixaio qujnezcaiotiaia, in qujiaujtl, ic papacoaia, ic teiollo motlaliaia: iuh qujtoa, ca ie moquetzaz in qujiaujtl, ca ie tiqujiaujlozque.
\nAuh intla cana ca, ytixiuhquj, q͗toaia, amo techqujiaujlotla.
\nAuh yn ie qujçaz qujiaujtl, yn ie tlamiz yn ie itzonco: njman ie ic tlatoa in cujtlacochi, ynezca, ynic ujtz, inic moquetzaz tlapaqujiaujtl: njman oalhuj, pipixcãme: no yoã
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"4a1f6ff3-7eed-46c2-a41a-ad73aac4a3cc","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":"valuable things which went with them. They gave them paper wings,[^15] they were of paper; they each had paper wings. In litters were they carried; they went housed in precious feathers, there where each of them customarily went. They went sounding flutes for them. \n\nThere was much compassion. They made one weep; they loosed one’s weeping; they made one sad for them; there was sighing for them. \n\nAnd when they were brought to the place of vigil, in the Mist House,[^16] there all night was to be spent in vigil. The offering priests and the *quaquacuiltin*,[^17] those who were old offering priests, made them keep the vigil. And if any of the offering priests avoided them, they would call them “the abandoned ones.” No longer did one join others in singing; nowhere was he wanted; nowhere was he respected.[^18]\n\nAnd if the children went crying, if their tears kept flowing, if their tears kept falling, it was said, it was stated: “It will surely rain.” Their tears signified rain. Therefore there was contentment; therefore one’s heart was at rest. Thus they said: “Verily, already the rains will set in; verily, already we shall be rained on.” \n\nAnd if one who was dropsical was somewhere, they said: “There is no rain for us.” \n\nAnd when the rains were already to pass, when they were already to end, when already they were at their close, thereupon the curve-billed thrasher[^19] sang; it was the sign that continuous rains would set in. Then came the Franklin gulls.[^20] And also \n\n\n\n\n[^15]: Corresponding Spanish text: “*ponjanlos vnas alas de papel como angeles.*”\n\n\n[^16]: *Ibid.*: *aiauhcalco* is described as “*un oratorio que estaua iunto a tepetzinco de la parte del occidente.*” \n\n\n[^17]: *quaquacuilti*: (sing., *quacuilli*): in Seler’s *Gesammelte Abhandlungen*, Vol. II, p. 987, it is suggested that the meaning of the term is probably “*der zum Haupte gewählt ist.*” In Sahagún’s *Histoire générale des choses de la Nouvelle-Espagne*, trans. D. Jourdanet and Rémi Siméon (Paris: G. Masson, Editeur, 1880; hereafter referred to as Sahagún, Jourdanet-Siméon ed.), p. 110, n. 2, the translators render the term *preneur de têtes*.\n\n\n[^18]: In the corresponding Spanish text, Sahagún explains in greater detail: “*Si alguno de los mjnistros del templo, y otros q̃ llamauan quaquacujlti, y los viejos se boluian a sus casas, y no llegauan a donde aujan de matar, los njños: tenjanlos por infames, y indignos de njngun oficio publico: de ay adelante llamauanlos mocauhque, que qujere dezir dexados”. * \n\n\n[^19]: *cujtlacochi: Toxostoma curvirostre* (Swainson) in Dibble and Anderson, *Book XI,* p. 51.\n\n\n[^20]: *pipixcame* (sing., *pipixcan*): *Larus pipixcan Wagler* in *ibid.,* p. 43.","html":"valuable things which went with them. They gave them paper wings,1 they were of paper; they each had paper wings. In litters were they carried; they went housed in precious feathers, there where each of them customarily went. They went sounding flutes for them.
\nThere was much compassion. They made one weep; they loosed one’s weeping; they made one sad for them; there was sighing for them.
\nAnd when they were brought to the place of vigil, in the Mist House,2 there all night was to be spent in vigil. The offering priests and the quaquacuiltin,3 those who were old offering priests, made them keep the vigil. And if any of the offering priests avoided them, they would call them “the abandoned ones.” No longer did one join others in singing; nowhere was he wanted; nowhere was he respected.4
\nAnd if the children went crying, if their tears kept flowing, if their tears kept falling, it was said, it was stated: “It will surely rain.” Their tears signified rain. Therefore there was contentment; therefore one’s heart was at rest. Thus they said: “Verily, already the rains will set in; verily, already we shall be rained on.”
\nAnd if one who was dropsical was somewhere, they said: “There is no rain for us.”
\nAnd when the rains were already to pass, when they were already to end, when already they were at their close, thereupon the curve-billed thrasher5 sang; it was the sign that continuous rains would set in. Then came the Franklin gulls.6 And also
\nCorresponding Spanish text: “ponjanlos vnas alas de papel como angeles.”↩
Ibid.: aiauhcalco is described as “un oratorio que estaua iunto a tepetzinco de la parte del occidente.”↩
quaquacuilti: (sing., quacuilli): in Seler’s Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Vol. II, p. 987, it is suggested that the meaning of the term is probably “der zum Haupte gewählt ist.” In Sahagún’s Histoire générale des choses de la Nouvelle-Espagne, trans. D. Jourdanet and Rémi Siméon (Paris: G. Masson, Editeur, 1880; hereafter referred to as Sahagún, Jourdanet-Siméon ed.), p. 110, n. 2, the translators render the term preneur de têtes.↩
In the corresponding Spanish text, Sahagún explains in greater detail: “*Si alguno de los mjnistros del templo, y otros q̃ llamauan quaquacujlti, y los viejos se boluian a sus casas, y no llegauan a donde aujan de matar, los njños: tenjanlos por infames, y indignos de njngun oficio publico: de ay adelante llamauanlos mocauhque, que qujere dezir dexados”. *↩
cujtlacochi: Toxostoma curvirostre (Swainson) in Dibble and Anderson, Book XI, p. 51.↩
pipixcame (sing., pipixcan): Larus pipixcan Wagler in ibid., p. 43.↩