de día de andar por todo el pueblo, y andaban con él, acompañándole siempre, ocho pajes ataviados a manera del palacio. E siendo publicado este mancebo para ser sacrificado en la pascua, luego el señor le ataviaba con atavíos, preciosos y curiosos, porque ya le tenía como en lugar de dios, y entintábanle todo el cuerpo y la cara. Emplumábale la cabeza con plumas blancas de gallina, pegadas con resina. Criaba los cabellos hasta la cinta. Después de haberle ataviado de ricos atavíos, poníanle una guirnalda de flores que llaman izquixúchitl, y un sartar largo de las mismas, colgado deste el hombro al sobaco, de ambas partes. Poníanle en las orejas un ornamento como cercillos de oro. Poníanle al cuello un
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\n“Because . . . god”: porque ya le tenía en lugar de dios; that is, the lord already considered him to be the living personification of the deity.↩
“With white chicken feathers”: con plumas blancas de gallina. The Nahuatl text says that white feathers and white eagle-feather down were applied to the impersonator’s head. In sixteenth-century Spanish, the term gallina (hen) was applied indiscriminately to both Spanish and Mexican female fowl.↩
[qujn]piaia, in qujnnemjtiaia cacalpisque, yn iquac oixnez:
\nnjman ic compeoaltia, yn itequjuh, in tlapitztinemj: cemilhujtl, yoan ceniooal: çan connequja in campa ieh vtli qujtocaz:\nqujtocatinemj yn iachoan chicueintin: navin mocexiuhçauhque, moquatexoloxima, moquateçonoa, motlatetecilhuja, amo maiochiquj, amo maioichiquj, amo moquacoconaloa, amo moquatetzicoa
\nAuh no naujntin, teachcaoan, tetiachcaoan, çan ie yujn moxima yn iuhca innexin, motlaeoatimanjlia, yn jmjxquac.
\nJquac vel qujcencaoa, qujcecencaoa in Motecuçuma, qujtlamamaca, qujchichioa, qujieiecquetza: muchi tlaçotlanquj, yn jtech qujtlalilia: ipampa canel ic ytlaçoteouh ipan qujmati, moçaoa, ic mjtoa motlilçaoa, mixtlilpopotztinenca, moquapotonjaia, quauhtlachcaiotica: çan q͗ujaqujliaia yn itzon, ycujtlacaxiuhian vetzia.
\nAuh yn omocencauh izqujxochitl in icpac contecatinemj, icpacxochiuh: yoan çan ie no ieh in necoccampa ic mapanaia, yciiacacpa qujqujxtiaia: in moteneoa suchineapãtli.
\nAuh yn jnacaztitech nenecoc pipilcatiujia teucujtlaepcolo[lli:]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"70938433-d3c7-4904-9a45-0b589c02ca98","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":"whom the various stewards were guarding, were maintaining, at the time that [the first impersonator] appeared [before the people]. \n\nThereupon he began his office. He went about playing the flute. By day and by night he followed whatever way he wished. \n\nHis eight servitors went following him. Four [of them] had fasted for a year. Their hair was shorn as if they were one’s pages; their hair was cut; their hair was clipped; they were not clipped smooth like a gourd; they were not clipped bald like a gourd; their heads were not smooth like pots; they did not stick [hair] to the head. \n\nAnd also there were four constables, masters of youths. They cut their hair similarly; their hair arrangement was similar. It was arranged upright for them on their foreheads. \n\nAt this time Moctezuma adorned [the impersonator]; he repeatedly adorned him; he gave him gifts; he arrayed him; he arrayed him with great pomp. He had all costly things placed on him, for verily he took him to be his beloved god. [The impersonator] fasted; hence it was said: “He fasteth in black,” [for] he went with his face smoke-black. His head was pasted with feathers, with eagle down. They only covered his hair for him; it fell to his loins. \n\nAnd when he was attired, he went about with popcorn flowers[^5] laid upon his head; they were his crown of flowers. And he was dressed in these same on both sides; they drew them out to his armpits. This was called “the flowery stole.” \n\nAnd from his ears on both sides went hanging \n\n\n\n\n[^5]: *Beureria huanita* Hemsley, according to Seler, *Einige Kapitel*, p. 97, n. 1. Cf. also Dibble and Anderson, *Book XI*, p. 202.","html":"whom the various stewards were guarding, were maintaining, at the time that [the first impersonator] appeared [before the people].
\nThereupon he began his office. He went about playing the flute. By day and by night he followed whatever way he wished.
\nHis eight servitors went following him. Four [of them] had fasted for a year. Their hair was shorn as if they were one’s pages; their hair was cut; their hair was clipped; they were not clipped smooth like a gourd; they were not clipped bald like a gourd; their heads were not smooth like pots; they did not stick [hair] to the head.
\nAnd also there were four constables, masters of youths. They cut their hair similarly; their hair arrangement was similar. It was arranged upright for them on their foreheads.
\nAt this time Moctezuma adorned [the impersonator]; he repeatedly adorned him; he gave him gifts; he arrayed him; he arrayed him with great pomp. He had all costly things placed on him, for verily he took him to be his beloved god. [The impersonator] fasted; hence it was said: “He fasteth in black,” [for] he went with his face smoke-black. His head was pasted with feathers, with eagle down. They only covered his hair for him; it fell to his loins.
\nAnd when he was attired, he went about with popcorn flowers1 laid upon his head; they were his crown of flowers. And he was dressed in these same on both sides; they drew them out to his armpits. This was called “the flowery stole.”
\nAnd from his ears on both sides went hanging
\nBeureria huanita Hemsley, according to Seler, Einige Kapitel, p. 97, n. 1. Cf. also Dibble and Anderson, Book XI, p. 202.↩