Al cuarto mes llamaban huei tozoztli. En el primero día deste mes hacían fiesta a honra del dios llamado Cintéutl, que le tenían por dios de los maíces. A honra déste ayunaban cuatro días ante de llegar la fiesta.
\nEn esta fiesta ponían espadañas a las puertas de las casas. Ensangrentábanlas con sangre de las orejas o de las espinillas. Los nobles y los ricos, demás de las espadañas, enramaban sus casas con unos ramos que llaman acxóyatl. También enramaban a sus dioses y las ponían flores a los que cada uno tenía en su casa. Después desto iban por los maizales y traían cañas de maíz, que aún estaba pequeño, y componíanlas con flores, y íbanlas a poner delante de sus dioses a la casa que llamaban calpulli, y también ponían comida delante dellos. Después de hecho esto en los barrios, iban al cu de la diosa que llamaban Chicomecóatl, y allí delante della hacían escaramuzas a manera de pelea. Y todas las muchachas llevaban a cuestas mazorcas de maíz del año pasado. Iban en procesión a presentarlas a la diosa Chicomecóatl, y tornábanlas otra vez a su casa como cosa bendita, y de allí tomaban la semilla para sembrar el año venidero. Y también poníanlo por corazón de las troxes, por estar bendito. Hacían de masa que llaman tzoalli la imagen desta diosa en el patio de su cu, y delante della ofrecían todo género de maíz y todo género de frisoles y todo género de chíen, porque decían que ella era la autora y dadora de aquellas cosas que son mantenimientos para vivir la gente.
\nSegún relación de algunos, los niños que mataban juntábanlos en el primero mes, comprándolos a sus madres, y íbanlos matando en todas las fiestas siguientes hasta que las aguas comenzaban de veras. Y ansí mataban algunos en el primero mes, llamado cuahuitlehua, y otros en el segundo, llamado tlacaxipehualiztli, y otros en el tercero, llamado tozoztontli, y otros en el cuarto, llamado huei tozoztli, de manera que hasta que comenzaban las aguas abundosamente, en todas las fiestas sacrificaban niños. Otras muchas cerimonias se hacían en esta fiesta, etcétera.
\n|Cuenta deste calendario | Cuenta del calendario romano
\n|----|----|\n|1 b |b 3
\n|2 c |c 4\t\t\t\t\n|3 d |d 5
\n|4 e |e 6\n|5 f |f 7
\n|6 g |g 8\n|7 A |A 9
\n|8 b |b 10\t\t\t\t\n|9 c |c 11
\n|10 d |d 12\n|11 e |e 13
\n|12 f |f 14\n|13 g |g 15
\n|14 A |A 16\t\t\t\t\n|15 b |b 17
\n|16 c |c 18\n|17 d |d 19
\n|18 e |e 20\n|19 f |f 21
\n|20 g |g 22 Sanctorum Soteris et baiip.
They called the fourth month Huey Tozoztli. On the first day of this month, they would celebrate a festival in honor of the god named Cinteotl, whom they held as god of maize. They would fast for four days in his honor before the beginning of the festival.
\nDuring this festival, they would place reeds at the doors of the houses. They would smear them with blood from their ears or from their shins. In addition to these reeds, the nobles and the rich people would cover their houses with some branches that they call acxoyatl. They would also set out branches for their gods and arrange flowers for the [gods] that each one had in their own house. Having done this, they would go to the maize fields and bring back maize stalks, which were still small, and adorn these with flowers. And they would go and place them before their gods in the house that they called calpolli; and they would also place food before them. After doing this in the barrios, they would go to the cu of the goddess whom they called Chicomecoatl, and they would skirmish there before her, as if they were in a battle. And all the young girls would carry on their backs maize cobs that had been harvested the year before. They would go in a procession to offer them to the goddess Chicomecoatl, and then they would bring them back again to their homes as blessed things; and from there, they would take the seed to plant next year. And they would also place this [maize] at the heart of the grain bins, because it was blessed. With the dough that they call tzoalli, they would make the image of this goddess in the patio of their cu and offer every type of maize before her, every type of beans, and every type of chian, because they said that she was the inventor and giver of those things that feed and keep the people alive. According to some people’s accounts, they would assemble the children whom they would kill in the first month, buying them from their mothers; and they would keep killing them during all of the following festivals until the rains really began to fall. And so, they would kill some in the first month, called Cuahuitlehua, and others in the second, called Tlacaxipehualiztli, and others in the third, called Tozoztontli, and others in the fourth,1 called Huey Tozoztli, in such a way that they would sacrifice children during all the festivals until the rains would begin to fall in abundance. Many other ceremonies would be performed during this festival, et cetera.
\n|Cuenta deste calendario | Cuenta del calendario romano
\n|----|----|\n|1 b |b 3
\n|2 c |c 4\t\t\t\t\n|3 d |d 5
\n|4 e |e 6\n|5 f |f 7
\n|6 g |g 8\n|7 A |A 9
\n|8 b |b 10\t\t\t\t\n|9 c |c 11
\n|10 d |d 12\n|11 e |e 13
\n|12 f |f 14\n|13 g |g 15
\n|14 A |A 16\t\t\t\t\n|15 b |b 17
\n|16 c |c 18\n|17 d |d 19
\n|18 e |e 20\n|19 f |f 21
\n|20 g |g 22 Sanctorum Soteris et baiip.
Marginal note: Sanctorum Soteris et baiip ([Feast] of the Savior’s Saints and baptism). The manuscript reads bapp., instead of LAGQ’s transcription of baiip. (1:141).↩
The fourth month they called Uei toçoztli. On the first day of this month they celebrated a feast in honor of the god named Cinteotl, whom they regarded as god of maize. In his honor they fasted four days before the arrival of the feast.
\nIn this feast they placed reeds at the doors of the houses. They sprinkled them with the blood from their ears or from the calves of their legs. Besides these, the nobles and the rich set up in their houses some branches which they called acxoyatl. Likewise, they set up branches for their gods, and set forth flowers for [the gods] which each one had in his house.
\nAfter this, they went about the maize fields and brought stalks of the maize (which was still small), and they garnished them with flowers and went to place them before their gods, in the house called calpulli; and also they set food before them.
\nHaving done this in the various suburbs, they went to the pyramid of the goddess whom they called Chicome coatl, and there, before her, they enacted skirmishes in the manner of battles. And all the girls bore upon their backs ears of maize [grown] the year before. They went in procession, to present them to the goddess Chicome coatl, and they returned them once more to their house[s] as blessed thing[s]; and from them they took the seed to plant next year. And also they put it [away] as the heart of the grain bins, because it was blessed.
\nThey made of dough (which they call tzoalli) the image of this goddess in the courtyard of her pyramid; and before her they offered all kinds of maize, and all kinds of beans, and all kinds of chía. For they said that she was the maker and giver of all those things which are the necessaries of life, that the people may live.
\nAccording to the accounts of some, they assembled the children whom they slew in the first month, buying them from their mothers. And they went on killing them in all the feasts which followed, until the rains really began. And thus they slew some in the first month, named Quauitl eua; and some in the second, named Tlacaxipeualiztli; and some in the third, named Toçoztontli; and others in the fourth, named Uei toçoztli: so that until the rains began in abundance, in all the feasts they sacrificed children. Many other ceremonies were performed in this feast. Etc.
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