tañer una flauta, y para que supiese tomar y traer las cañas de humo y las flores, según que se acostumbra entre los señores y palancianos. Y enseñábanle a ir chupando el humo y oliendo las flores, yendo andando, como se acostumbra entre los señores y en palacio.
\nEstos mancebos, estando aún en el poder de los calpixques, y antes que se publicasen por diputados para morir, tenían gran cuidado los mismos calpixques de enseñarlos toda buena crianza, en hablar y en saludar a los que topaban por la calle, y en todas las otras cosas de buenas costumbres, porque cuando ya eran señalados para morir en la fiesta deste dios, por espacio de aquel año en que ya se sabía de su muerte, todos los que le vían le tenían en gran reverencia y le hacían gran acatamiento, y le adoraban besando la tierra. Y si por el buen tratamiento que le hacían engordaba, dábanle a beber agua mezclada con sal, para que se parase cenceño.
\nLuego que este mancebo era diputado para morir en la fiesta deste dios, comenzaba a andar tañendo su flauta por las calles, con sus flores y su caña de humo. Tenía libertad de noche y
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\nEven while they were still under the tutelage of the calpixques and before the fact that they were destined to die was made public, the calpixques themselves would take great care in instructing these young men in all sorts of good manners: how to speak and greet those whom they would meet on the street, as well as all the other things pertaining to good habits. [They did this] because, after these ones had already been marked to die during this god’s festival, everyone who saw him1 during the period of that year in which his [imminent] death was already known would hold him in great reverence, pay him great homage, and worship him by kissing the ground.2 And if he happened to get fat because of the good treatment that they were giving him, they would have him drink water mixed with salt so that he would become slender.
\nAs soon as this young man was assigned to die during this god’s festival, he would begin to walk the streets playing his flute, with his flowers and his smoking tube. He was free to walk around
\n[y]tech ca etzotzocatl, xitomaciuiztli: njmã cenca necujtlaujlo, inic vel momachtiz, yn tlapitzaz: ynic vel qujpitzaz, yujlacapitz: yoan inic vel muchi ipan qujtzitzquiz yxochiuh, yoan yieuh, ipan tlapitztiaz, tlachichintiaz, tlanecutiaz:
\niuhqujn centlalli mantiuh yn ixochiuh, yn jyieuh, yn iquac vtli qujtocaia.\nAuh in çan oc nemj, in çan oc oapaoalo, yn ichan calpixquj, yn aiamo ixneci, cenca vel necujtlaujloia, ynic vel mjmatiz, ica itlatol, vellatoz, vel tenotza, vel tetlapaloz in vtlica, intla aca qujnamiquiz:
\nipampa ca cenca mauiztililoia yn iquac oixnez, in ie teixiptla: ynic ixiptlati Titlacaoan, ca totecujo ipan machoia, netecuiotilo, tlatlauhtilo, yca elciciooa, ixpan nepechteco, ixpan ontlalqua in maceoaltzintli.
\nAuh intla ie qujtta, in ie achi tomaoa ynacaio, iztaiotl qujltequjtiaia, ic qujquaoatzaia, quiztaioquaoatza, ynic pipinja, tepitzauj, tlalichauj yn jnacaio.
\nAuh cexiujtl in nemja ipan toxcatl, yn ixnecia: auh iquac miquj ce tlacatl yn oteixiptlatic ce xiujtl, in ce xiujtl, ooallaotlatoctic, in ce xiujtl oqujtlaz, in ce xiujtl ooallaujcac: ça çan ic mopatlatiuja yn ixquetzaloia, yn ixqujchtin qujn[piaia,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a21fc216-0770-4265-b3fc-2e767b3bffef","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":"wart, [no such] small tumor, there was taken the greatest care that he be taught to blow the flute, that he be able to play his whistle; and that at the same time he hold all his flowers and his smoking tube.[^4] At the same time he would go playing the flute, he would go sucking [the smoking tube], he would go smelling [the flowers]. \n\nSo [his flute], his flowers, his smoking tube went together when he followed the road. \n\nAnd while yet he lived, while yet he was being trained in the home of the steward, before he appeared [in the presence of the people], very great care was taken that he should be very circumspect in his discourse, that he talk graciously, that he greet people agreeably on the road if he met anyone. \n\nFor he was indeed much honored when he appeared, when already he was an impersonator. Since he impersonated Titlacauan, he was indeed regarded as our lord. There was the assigning of lordship; he was importuned; he was sighed for; there was bowing before him; the commoners performed the earth-eating ceremony before him. \n\nAnd if they saw that already his body fattened a little, they made him take brine; with it they thinned him; they thinned him with salt. Thus he became thin; he became firm; his body became hard. \n\nAnd for one year he [thus] lived; at the time of Toxcatl he appeared [before the people], and at that time died the man who had been impersonator for one year, who had been led along the road, who had waited for one year, who had [thus] passed one year. Just then he went being substituted; one was set in his place [from among] all \n\n\n\n\n[^4] “*Caña o cañuto de çahumerio, acaietl,*” in Molina, *Vocabulario; “cañas de humo”* in Sahagún’s corresponding Spanish.","html":"wart, [no such] small tumor, there was taken the greatest care that he be taught to blow the flute, that he be able to play his whistle; and that at the same time he hold all his flowers and his smoking tube.4 At the same time he would go playing the flute, he would go sucking [the smoking tube], he would go smelling [the flowers].
\nSo [his flute], his flowers, his smoking tube went together when he followed the road.
\nAnd while yet he lived, while yet he was being trained in the home of the steward, before he appeared [in the presence of the people], very great care was taken that he should be very circumspect in his discourse, that he talk graciously, that he greet people agreeably on the road if he met anyone.
\nFor he was indeed much honored when he appeared, when already he was an impersonator. Since he impersonated Titlacauan, he was indeed regarded as our lord. There was the assigning of lordship; he was importuned; he was sighed for; there was bowing before him; the commoners performed the earth-eating ceremony before him.
\nAnd if they saw that already his body fattened a little, they made him take brine; with it they thinned him; they thinned him with salt. Thus he became thin; he became firm; his body became hard.
\nAnd for one year he [thus] lived; at the time of Toxcatl he appeared [before the people], and at that time died the man who had been impersonator for one year, who had been led along the road, who had waited for one year, who had [thus] passed one year. Just then he went being substituted; one was set in his place [from among] all
\n4 “Caña o cañuto de çahumerio, acaietl,” in Molina, Vocabulario; “cañas de humo” in Sahagún’s corresponding Spanish.
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