porque no se rozase la corteza.
\nCuando ya llegaban cerca del pueblo, salían las señoras y mujeres principales a recebirle. Llevaban xícaras de cacao para que bebiesen los que le traían, y flores con que enrosaban a los que le traían. Desque le habían llegado al patio del cu, luego comenzaban los tlayacanques o cuadrilleros, y daban voces muy fuertemente para que se juntasen todo el pueblo para levantar aquel árbol que llamaban xócotl. Juntados todos, atábanle con maromas, y hecho un hoyo donde había de levantarse, tiraban todas por las maromas y levantaban el árbol con gran grita. Cerraban el hoyo con piedras y tierra para que quedase enhiesto, y así se estaba veinte días.
\nLa vigilia de la fiesta que se llamaba xócotl huetzi tornábanla echar en tierra muy poco a poco, porque no diese golpe, porque no se quebrase o hindiese. Y ansí le iban recibiendo con unos maderos atados de dos en dos, que llaman cuauhtomázatl, y poníanle en tierra sin que recibiese daño, y dexábanle así; íbanse. Las maromas dexábalas coxidas sobre el mismo madero. Estábase toda aquella noche y el día de la misma,
\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":"e192176e-dc70-478d-b614-c23890c5ac51","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":"so that its bark would not get scratched. \n\nOnce they were already close to town, the ladies and noblewomen would come out to greet it. They would bring _jícaras_ filled with cacao for those who were dragging the [wooden pole] to drink, and also flowers, with which they would shower those who were dragging [the pole]. \n\nWhen they arrived at the patio of the _cu_, the _tlayacanques_,[^119] or foremen, would immediately begin [their task], shouting very loudly so that all the townspeople would gather together to raise up that tree that they called _xocotl_. Once they were all gathered together, they would tie it with thick ropes and put it into a hole where it would be raised up. They would all pull the thick ropes and raise the tree amid a lot of shouting. They would plug the hole with stones and dirt so that it would stand erect, and it would remain like this for twenty days.\n\nOn the eve of the festival that was called Xocotl Huetzi, they would lower it again down to the ground, little by little, so that it would not bump against anything, break, or crack. And so they would gradually get hold of it with the aid of some logs that were tied together in twos, which they call _cuauhtommazatl_; and they would place it on the ground without causing any damage to it and leave it just like that. And then they would go away. They would leave the ropes piled up on the log itself. The [log] would spend that whole day and night there. \n\n\n[^119]: _tlayacanques_: plural Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word _tlayacanqueh_.","html":"so that its bark would not get scratched.
\nOnce they were already close to town, the ladies and noblewomen would come out to greet it. They would bring jícaras filled with cacao for those who were dragging the [wooden pole] to drink, and also flowers, with which they would shower those who were dragging [the pole].
\nWhen they arrived at the patio of the cu, the tlayacanques,1 or foremen, would immediately begin [their task], shouting very loudly so that all the townspeople would gather together to raise up that tree that they called xocotl. Once they were all gathered together, they would tie it with thick ropes and put it into a hole where it would be raised up. They would all pull the thick ropes and raise the tree amid a lot of shouting. They would plug the hole with stones and dirt so that it would stand erect, and it would remain like this for twenty days.
\nOn the eve of the festival that was called Xocotl Huetzi, they would lower it again down to the ground, little by little, so that it would not bump against anything, break, or crack. And so they would gradually get hold of it with the aid of some logs that were tied together in twos, which they call cuauhtommazatl; and they would place it on the ground without causing any damage to it and leave it just like that. And then they would go away. They would leave the ropes piled up on the log itself. The [log] would spend that whole day and night there.
\ntlayacanques: plural Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word tlayacanqueh.↩
[Mololhuja]ia, mocentlatilulcaujaia, ynic meoatiquetzaia, vel motlapaltiliaia, ixqujch caanaia yn intlapaliuiz.
\nAuh in xócotl, injc viac catca, cempoalmatl ommacujlli: muchi qujtepeviliaia in jmatzocol: ça yio in jzcallo mocaoaia: inic iuhquj in oqujquetzque, cempoaltica in çan oqujvicaca, aiatle itlatquj.
\nAuh in oacic cempoalli: vet iquac ilhujtl in xócotl vetzi: auh in oqujuh viptla ilhujtl iez, oc ceppa qujteca, can jvian, çan tlamach in qujteca, qujmalhuja in ma cuetla, in ma natzin, in ma poztec: quauhtonmaçatl, quioalquechilitivi, quauhtonmaçapã in motecatiuh, cenca çan tlamach.
\nAuh in oquentel qujtecaque xócotl: njman ic cacalacoa, nececevilo: auh in ixqujch vepanmecatl ipan cõtepeuhtitlalia in xocotl, ipan contoxauhtitlalia.
\nAuh in otlatvic: njman oalhuj, oalnechicavi in quauhxinque, qujoalitquj, intlatquj oalietiuh in matepoztli, tlaximaltepoztli, vel qujpetlaoa, qujxipetzoa, in vncan yixe, in vncã titicujtztic, in vncã xixipochtic.
\nOc ce qujxima quaoacatl
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"19ea47c6-bb8e-4c8b-8c0f-2289cf235e13","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":"There was piled up for themselves, there was provided a mound of earth by means of which [the *xocotl*] was erected.[^5] Strength was indeed exerted; they each took hold of it with all their force. \n\nAnd the *xocotl* was twenty-five fathoms long. They removed its branches; only its main stalk was left. Thus, in the manner in which they set it up, it was for twenty days. When they had brought it, it had no adornment. \n\nAnd when twenty [days] had gone by, then verily it was the time of the feast day, Xocotl uetzi. And when the feast was to be observed two days hence, once again they laid it out; quite gradually, quite carefully they laid out [the *xocotl*]. They took pains lest it break, lest it crack, lest it snap. They went resting it upon wooden supports;[^6] they went laying it down upon wooden supports with much caution. \n\nAnd when they had laid out the *xocotl* in some fashion, then there was entering of the houses on the part of each one, there was resting on the part of each one. And they piled up all the heavy ropes on the *xocotl*; they placed them scattered over it.\n\nAnd when it dawned, then the carpenters came forth; they assembled. They brought their equipment; they had with them adzes, hatchets. Well did they make even, did they smooth [the *xocotl*] where it had knots, where it was broken off, where it was uneven. \n\nThey smoothed another pole of \n\n\n\n\n[^5]: See *Codex Borbonicus, Codex Féjérváry-Mayer*, and Jimenez Moreno, “*Primeros memoriales,*” for illustrations of this scene and others for the month Xocotl uetzi. \n\n\n[^6]: Cf. *quauhtomacatl* (Siméon, *Dictionnaire*, p. 370); the term is *quauhtonmaçatl* in the Nahuatl and *quauhtomaçatl* in the corresponding Spanish text.","html":"There was piled up for themselves, there was provided a mound of earth by means of which [the xocotl] was erected.1 Strength was indeed exerted; they each took hold of it with all their force.
\nAnd the xocotl was twenty-five fathoms long. They removed its branches; only its main stalk was left. Thus, in the manner in which they set it up, it was for twenty days. When they had brought it, it had no adornment.
\nAnd when twenty [days] had gone by, then verily it was the time of the feast day, Xocotl uetzi. And when the feast was to be observed two days hence, once again they laid it out; quite gradually, quite carefully they laid out [the xocotl]. They took pains lest it break, lest it crack, lest it snap. They went resting it upon wooden supports;2 they went laying it down upon wooden supports with much caution.
\nAnd when they had laid out the xocotl in some fashion, then there was entering of the houses on the part of each one, there was resting on the part of each one. And they piled up all the heavy ropes on the xocotl; they placed them scattered over it.
\nAnd when it dawned, then the carpenters came forth; they assembled. They brought their equipment; they had with them adzes, hatchets. Well did they make even, did they smooth [the xocotl] where it had knots, where it was broken off, where it was uneven.
\nThey smoothed another pole of
\nSee Codex Borbonicus, Codex Féjérváry-Mayer, and Jimenez Moreno, “Primeros memoriales,” for illustrations of this scene and others for the month Xocotl uetzi.↩
Cf. quauhtomacatl (Siméon, Dictionnaire, p. 370); the term is quauhtonmaçatl in the Nahuatl and quauhtomaçatl in the corresponding Spanish text.↩