[bai]lando. A las mujeres íbanlas tañendo con un teponaztli que no tenía más que una lengua encima y otra debaxo, y en la debaxo llevaba colgado una xícara en que soelen beber agua, y así suena mucho más que los que tienen dos lenguas en la parte de arriba, y ninguna abaxo. A este teponaztli llaman tecomapiloa. Llevábale uno debaxo del sobaco, tañéndole, por ser desta manera hecho.
\nLos gentiles hombres que iban bailando iban delante y no llevaban aquel compás de los areitos, sino el compás de las danzas de Castilla la Vieja, que van unos trabados de otros y culebreando. También los ministros de los ídolos iban bailando y danzando al son del mesmo teponaztli. Iban tañendo sus cornetas y sus caracoles. Y cuando los sátrapas hacían vuelta delante de la diosa Xilonen, sembraban encienso por donde iba a pasar, y el sátrapa que había de matar aquella mujer iba con sus aparejos, y a cuestas llevaba un plumaje que salía de entre las uñas de un águila, el cual plumaje estaba enxerido en una pierna de águila hechiza. Y uno de los sátrapas llevaba delante la tabla de las sonajas, de que habemos hablado atrás.
\nEn llegando al cu del dios que se llamaba Cintéutl, donde había de morir esta mujer, poníase delante della el sátrapa que lleva[ba]
\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":"b3caf735-fedc-45b6-8ac5-75649bc13716","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 they would accompany the women, playing a _teponaztli_ that had only one tongue above and another below; and the lower [tongue] had a _jícara_ hanging from it—the type that they use to drink water—and so it has a much louder sound than the ones that have two tongues on the upper part and none below. This _teponaztli_ was called _tecomapiloa_. [The musician] would carry it under his armpit while playing it, since it was made [to be used] in this way.\n\nThe gentlemen who were dancing would go ahead and follow not the rhythm of the _areitos_ but the rhythm of the dances from Old Castile, in which people move in a snaking motion while linking arms with each other. The ministers of the idols would also be dancing and swaying to the sound of that same _teponaztli_. They would go around playing their bugles and their conch shells. And when the satraps would make a turn in front of the goddess Xilonen, they would scatter incense on the path where she would be passing. And the satrap who was appointed to kill that woman would go around in his ceremonial garments, wearing on his back a feather ornament that protruded from between an eagle’s claws; and this feather ornament would be fastened to an artificial eagle leg. And one of the satraps would come out in front carrying the rattle board that we have mentioned above. \n\nUpon arriving at the _cu_ of the god called Cinteotl, where this woman was to die, the satrap who was carrying","html":"And they would accompany the women, playing a teponaztli that had only one tongue above and another below; and the lower [tongue] had a jícara hanging from it—the type that they use to drink water—and so it has a much louder sound than the ones that have two tongues on the upper part and none below. This teponaztli was called tecomapiloa. [The musician] would carry it under his armpit while playing it, since it was made [to be used] in this way.
\nThe gentlemen who were dancing would go ahead and follow not the rhythm of the areitos but the rhythm of the dances from Old Castile, in which people move in a snaking motion while linking arms with each other. The ministers of the idols would also be dancing and swaying to the sound of that same teponaztli. They would go around playing their bugles and their conch shells. And when the satraps would make a turn in front of the goddess Xilonen, they would scatter incense on the path where she would be passing. And the satrap who was appointed to kill that woman would go around in his ceremonial garments, wearing on his back a feather ornament that protruded from between an eagle’s claws; and this feather ornament would be fastened to an artificial eagle leg. And one of the satraps would come out in front carrying the rattle board that we have mentioned above.
\nUpon arriving at the cu of the god called Cinteotl, where this woman was to die, the satrap who was carrying
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"0bff9c14-3324-4b27-a0a9-4a9a7d13cd7c","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"yn oqujchti, çan nonqua mantiuj, cololujtiuj, qujtepeujtiuj in Xilonen: qujcioapãcujcatitiuj: in iehoantin y, cioa moteneoa tecomapilooa. \n\nAuh in tiachcaoan ixpan mjtotitiuj, mococolotiuj: \n\nauh ynic moteneoa tecomapilooa, ca in teponaztli in qujujtectiuj, itech çaliuhtiuh in atecomatl, yhicampa iteputzco ietiuh in teponaztli, iuhqujn pilcatiuh ic neci: in teponaçoa çan qujciacaujtiuh in teponaztontli in qujujtectiuh olmatica.\n\nAuh in tlamacazque, tenanamjquj tlapitztiuj, tecciztli in qujpitztiuj: yoan yn iauhtextli in qujpipixotiuj, qujcecenmatiuj, qujtetepeuhtiuj, conjxnamjctiuj in Xilonen. \n\nAuh in tlenamacac, in tlamjctiz, vel mocencaoa, muchichioa, quauhiztitl in qujmama, quetzalli ynic moiaoatiuh, quãmoloctli, yn itecomaio ietiuh quetzalli cuztic teucujtlatl yn itec[paio]","html":"yn oqujchti, çan nonqua mantiuj, cololujtiuj, qujtepeujtiuj in Xilonen: qujcioapãcujcatitiuj: in iehoantin y, cioa moteneoa tecomapilooa.
\nAuh in tiachcaoan ixpan mjtotitiuj, mococolotiuj:
\nauh ynic moteneoa tecomapilooa, ca in teponaztli in qujujtectiuj, itech çaliuhtiuh in atecomatl, yhicampa iteputzco ietiuh in teponaztli, iuhqujn pilcatiuh ic neci: in teponaçoa çan qujciacaujtiuh in teponaztontli in qujujtectiuh olmatica.
\nAuh in tlamacazque, tenanamjquj tlapitztiuj, tecciztli in qujpitztiuj: yoan yn iauhtextli in qujpipixotiuj, qujcecenmatiuj, qujtetepeuhtiuj, conjxnamjctiuj in Xilonen.
\nAuh in tlenamacac, in tlamjctiz, vel mocencaoa, muchichioa, quauhiztitl in qujmama, quetzalli ynic moiaoatiuh, quãmoloctli, yn itecomaio ietiuh quetzalli cuztic teucujtlatl yn itec[paio]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"bf14333c-f8a3-4a44-9959-0c3fd4726739","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":"the men; they just remained apart. They went encircling [the likeness of] Xilonen; they went enclosing her. They went singing for her after the manner of women. These women were called “the hanging gourd.” \n\nAnd the masters of the youths went dancing before [the impersonator of Xilonen]; they followed a serpentine course. \n\nAnd for this reason were the women known as “the hanging gourd”: the two-toned wooden drum, which they beat as they went, had going tied to it a water gourd, which went under, at the bottom of the drum; it looked as if it went hanging. They who beat the two-toned drum only went carrying under their arms the little drum which they went beating with the rubber-tipped drumsticks.[^25] \n\nAnd the offering priests attended them. They went blowing wind instruments; it was shell trumpets that they went blowing. And they went scattering powdered *yauhtli*; they went strewing it, they went casting it [as] they went to meet [the likeness of] Xilonen. \n\nAnd the fire priest, who was to slay [the likeness of] Xilonen as an offering was well arrayed [and] adorned. He bore an eagle claw device upon his back; it went surrounded by quetzal feathers. His holder was of eagle down [with] quetzal feathers. His flint knife \n\n\n\n\n[^25]: Corresponding Spanish text: “*a las mugeres, yvanlas tañedo* [sic], *con vn teponaztli, que no tenja mas que vna lengua encima, y otra debaxo: y en la debaxo, lleuaua colgado, vna xicara en que soelen beuer agua, y assi suena mucho mas, que los que tienen dos lenguas, en la parte de arriba, y ninguna abaxo: a este teponaztli llaman tecomapiloa: lleuauanle vno debaxo del sobaco, tañendole, por ser desta manera hecho.*”","html":"the men; they just remained apart. They went encircling [the likeness of] Xilonen; they went enclosing her. They went singing for her after the manner of women. These women were called “the hanging gourd.”
\nAnd the masters of the youths went dancing before [the impersonator of Xilonen]; they followed a serpentine course.
\nAnd for this reason were the women known as “the hanging gourd”: the two-toned wooden drum, which they beat as they went, had going tied to it a water gourd, which went under, at the bottom of the drum; it looked as if it went hanging. They who beat the two-toned drum only went carrying under their arms the little drum which they went beating with the rubber-tipped drumsticks.1
\nAnd the offering priests attended them. They went blowing wind instruments; it was shell trumpets that they went blowing. And they went scattering powdered yauhtli; they went strewing it, they went casting it [as] they went to meet [the likeness of] Xilonen.
\nAnd the fire priest, who was to slay [the likeness of] Xilonen as an offering was well arrayed [and] adorned. He bore an eagle claw device upon his back; it went surrounded by quetzal feathers. His holder was of eagle down [with] quetzal feathers. His flint knife
\nCorresponding Spanish text: “a las mugeres, yvanlas tañedo [sic], con vn teponaztli, que no tenja mas que vna lengua encima, y otra debaxo: y en la debaxo, lleuaua colgado, vna xicara en que soelen beuer agua, y assi suena mucho mas, que los que tienen dos lenguas, en la parte de arriba, y ninguna abaxo: a este teponaztli llaman tecomapiloa: lleuauanle vno debaxo del sobaco, tañendole, por ser desta manera hecho.”↩