a enramar las capillas, que tenían por tareas señaladas.
\nEn haciéndoles la señal que esperaban, arrancaban todos juntos con sus ramos y cañas, con priesa muy diligente, y cada uno iba derecho al lugar donde había de poner sus ramos. Y si alguno erraba el puesto donde había de poner las cañas, o quedaba atrás de sus compañeros y no llegaba juntamente con los otros al poner de las cañas, penábanle. Había de pagar una gallina o un maxtle, o una manta, y los pobres pagaban una bola de masa en una xícara puesta. Estas penas eran para el acusador. Estas penas se pagaban en los cuatro días, porque en el quinto día ninguno se podía redimir, sino que había de ser castigado.
\nLlegada a la fiesta, todos hacían la comida que se llama etzalli. No quedaba nadie que no lo hiciese en su casa. Este etzalli era hecho de maíz cocido, a manera de arruz, y era muy amarillo. Después de hecho, todos comían dello y daban a otros.
\nDespués de comido, los que querían bailaban y regocijábanse. Muchos se hacían zaharrones, disfrazados de diversas maneras, y traían en las manos unas ollas de asa, que se llaman xocuicolli. Andaban de casa en casa, demandando etzal o arruz. Cantaban y bailaban a las puertas. Decían sus cantarejos, y a la postre decían: "Si no me das el arruz, agujerarte he la casa." El dueño de la casa luego le daba una escudilla de arruz. Andaban éstos de dos en dos, de tres en tres, de cuatro en cuatro y de cinco en cinco. Comenzaban este regocijo a la medianoche, y cesaba en amaneciendo. En saliendo el Sol, aparejábanse los sátrapas con sus ornamentos acostumbrados: una xaqueta debaxo, y encima della una manta delgada, transparente, que se llama ayauhquémitl, pintada de plumas de papaga[yo]
\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":"fe44289b-5d8e-49bf-b0ab-17828745ae3a","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":"and cover the chapels with branches, for this was one of their assigned tasks. \n\nAs soon as the signal that they were expecting was made, they would all take off very diligently and quickly, along with their branches and their reeds, and each one would go straight to the place where he would set up his branches. And if someone went to the wrong place where he was supposed to place his reeds or lagged behind his companions and did not arrive together with them to put up their reeds, they would punish him. He would have to pay either a chicken, a _mastle_, or a blanket. And those who were poor would make payment with a ball of dough placed in a _jícara_. These fines would go to the accuser. These fines would be paid off within the four-day period, because on the fifth day nobody could redeem himself, but he would have to be punished instead. \n\nWhen the [time for the] festival arrived, everyone would make the dish called _etzalli_. Nobody would miss out on preparing it at home. This _etzalli_ was made of cooked maize, like rice, and it was very yellow. After preparing it, everyone would eat it and share it with others. \n\nOnce they had eaten it, those who so wished would dance and make merry. Many would play the clown, disguising themselves in different ways; and they would carry in their hands some pots with handles, which are called _xocuicolli_. They would go from house to house demanding some _etzalli_ or rice.[^101] They would dance and sing in front of the doorways. They would perform their tunes, which ended with them saying, “If you do not give me some rice, I will make a hole in your house.” The homeowner would then give them a small bowl of rice. They would go together in pairs or in groups of three, four, or five. They would begin this merriment at midnight and end it at dawn. As the sun came out, the satraps would dress themselves with their usual ornaments: a jacket underneath and, on top of it, a thin, transparent blanket called _ayauhquemitl_, which was decorated with macaw feathers displayed in an _X_-shape or in a cross. \n\n\n[^101]: Here Sahagún is again comparing the _etzalli_ with rice, which did not exist in Mexico before the arrival of the Spaniards.","html":"and cover the chapels with branches, for this was one of their assigned tasks.
\nAs soon as the signal that they were expecting was made, they would all take off very diligently and quickly, along with their branches and their reeds, and each one would go straight to the place where he would set up his branches. And if someone went to the wrong place where he was supposed to place his reeds or lagged behind his companions and did not arrive together with them to put up their reeds, they would punish him. He would have to pay either a chicken, a mastle, or a blanket. And those who were poor would make payment with a ball of dough placed in a jícara. These fines would go to the accuser. These fines would be paid off within the four-day period, because on the fifth day nobody could redeem himself, but he would have to be punished instead.
\nWhen the [time for the] festival arrived, everyone would make the dish called etzalli. Nobody would miss out on preparing it at home. This etzalli was made of cooked maize, like rice, and it was very yellow. After preparing it, everyone would eat it and share it with others.
\nOnce they had eaten it, those who so wished would dance and make merry. Many would play the clown, disguising themselves in different ways; and they would carry in their hands some pots with handles, which are called xocuicolli. They would go from house to house demanding some etzalli or rice.1 They would dance and sing in front of the doorways. They would perform their tunes, which ended with them saying, “If you do not give me some rice, I will make a hole in your house.” The homeowner would then give them a small bowl of rice. They would go together in pairs or in groups of three, four, or five. They would begin this merriment at midnight and end it at dawn. As the sun came out, the satraps would dress themselves with their usual ornaments: a jacket underneath and, on top of it, a thin, transparent blanket called ayauhquemitl, which was decorated with macaw feathers displayed in an X-shape or in a cross.
\nHere Sahagún is again comparing the etzalli with rice, which did not exist in Mexico before the arrival of the Spaniards.↩
iehoatl in uentelolotli, ic moqujxtiaia, cen quauhxicalli:
\nauh yn jxqujch nequjxtilonj, moch qujmocujlia in tlamanj, in teaci, in teacinj.
\nAuh in ie ic macujlilhujtl, in ie yquac ilhujtl, aocac vel moqujxtiaia, inmanel itla cenca vey ic moqujxtiaia, aocmo qujceliaia.
\nAuh in ie iquac ilhujtl, yn ixqujch tlacatl maceoalli, qujmochiujliaia etzalli, metzalhujaia, vel cenvetzi, aiac yn macamo metzalhujaia:
\nauh yn iquac oicucic, njman quaqualo, netech qujmomamaca, nepanotl ic mococooachioa.
\nAuh in cequjntin papaqujnj, yn ahaujeni: yoan in cequjntin tiacaoan, mamaceoa çan ic mellelqujxtia:
\ninjc muchichioa mixteiaiaoaltia, incintopil, cacalactinemj in techachan, etzalmaceoa: intlan caantinemj xocujcolli etzalcomjtl.
\nAuh ynjc mamaceoaia queoaia. Yn naie yn naie tla achi in metzal, intlacamo xinechmaca, njmjtzcalxaxapotlaz.
\nAuh in chaneque, njman qujoalmaca, cen tlaolololli etzalli, contlalitiuj yn etzalcomjc:\ncequj macujlli, cequj chiquacen, cequj chicome, mantinemj in mamaceoa.\nJnjn etzalmaceoaliztli, ioalnepantla in peoa[ia,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"dc36bd6d-f4f7-4e58-8638-e3888fcd9cc5","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":"these freed themselves with balls of dough,[^25] a wooden vessel [full]. \n\nAnd [as for] all that by which one was freed, all this the captor, he who detained one, he who captured one, took. \n\nBut when it was already the fifth day, when it was already the feast day, no one could free himself; even if it were something very great in return for which he was to free himself, no longer did [the captor] accept it. \n\nAnd when it was already the feast day, all the common folk made cooked maize and beans for themselves; they made *etzalli* for themselves. They fell to it as one. There was no one who did not prepare maize and beans for himself. \n\nWhen they were cooked, then they were continually eaten; they continually presented it to one another; they continually invited one another to meals.\n\nAnd some of the happy ones, the pleasure girls, and some of the brave warriors danced from time to time. Thus they just diverted themselves. \n\nThus were they adorned: they had circles about their eyes; they had their maize staves. They kept going to enter each one’s home. They danced the *etzalli* dance. With them they went grasping a handled jar, the *etzalli* jar.\n\nAnd as they kept on dancing they chanted: “When I do, when I do, [give me] a little of thy *etzalli*. If thou givest me none, I shall break a hole into thy house.”\n\nAnd the householders then gave them a pile of *etzalli*. They went placing it in the *etzalli* jar. \n\nThose who kept on dancing gathered some in fives, some in sixes, some in sevens.\n\nThis *etzalli* dance began at \n\n\n\n\n[^25]: *”bolillas de massa”* in Sahagún’s Spanish text.","html":"these freed themselves with balls of dough,1 a wooden vessel [full].
\nAnd [as for] all that by which one was freed, all this the captor, he who detained one, he who captured one, took.
\nBut when it was already the fifth day, when it was already the feast day, no one could free himself; even if it were something very great in return for which he was to free himself, no longer did [the captor] accept it.
\nAnd when it was already the feast day, all the common folk made cooked maize and beans for themselves; they made etzalli for themselves. They fell to it as one. There was no one who did not prepare maize and beans for himself.
\nWhen they were cooked, then they were continually eaten; they continually presented it to one another; they continually invited one another to meals.
\nAnd some of the happy ones, the pleasure girls, and some of the brave warriors danced from time to time. Thus they just diverted themselves.
\nThus were they adorned: they had circles about their eyes; they had their maize staves. They kept going to enter each one’s home. They danced the etzalli dance. With them they went grasping a handled jar, the etzalli jar.
\nAnd as they kept on dancing they chanted: “When I do, when I do, [give me] a little of thy etzalli. If thou givest me none, I shall break a hole into thy house.”
\nAnd the householders then gave them a pile of etzalli. They went placing it in the etzalli jar.
\nThose who kept on dancing gathered some in fives, some in sixes, some in sevens.
\nThis etzalli dance began at
\n”bolillas de massa” in Sahagún’s Spanish text.↩