si esta mujer que había de morir estaba triste o lloraba, porque decían que esto significaban que habían de morir muchos soldados en la guerra o que habían de morir muchas mujeres de parto.
\nCuando hacían esta escaramuza o pelea, aquella mujer que estaba diputada para morir, a la cual llamaban la imagen de la madre de los dioses, a quien la fiesta se hacía, hacía el primer acometimiento contra el escuadrón contrario. Iban acompañando a ésta tres viejas que eran como sus madres, que nunca se le quitaban del lado. A la una llamaban Ahua; a la otra Tlahuitecqui; a la tercerca Xocuauhtli. La pelea era que se apedreaban con pellas hechas de aquellas hilachas que nacen en los árboles, o con pellas hecha de hojas de espadañas, y con hojas de tunas, y con flores amarillas que llaman cempoalxúchitl. Todas iban ceñidas, y en la cintura llevaban unas calabazuelas colgadas con polvo de aquella yerba que llaman yietl. Iban apedreándose el un escuadrón tras el otro, y después el otro volvía tras el otro. Desta manera escaramuzaban ciertas vueltas, con todas las cuales acabadas cesaba la escaramuza, y luego
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\nWhen they engaged in this skirmish or fight, the woman who was assigned to die—whom they called “the image of the mother of the gods” and in whose honor the festival was celebrated—would charge first against the opposing team. She would be accompanied in this by three older women who were like her mothers and never left her side. They called one Ahua, the other Tlahuitecqui, and the third Xocuauhtli. During the fight, they would pelt each other with balls made of those strands that grow on trees,1 with balls made of maguey leaves, or with nopal cactus leaves, as well as with those yellow flowers that they call cempohualxochitl. All of them would wear belts, and they would be carrying some small gourds, hanging from their waists, filled with the powder of that herb that they call yetl.2 One team would keep pelting the other, and then this one would chase after the first. They would skirmish like this for a certain number of rounds, until ending the skirmish in the last round.
\n[teu]tlac: auh in necacaoaloia ie õcalaquj tonatiuh. Auh in otzonqujz chicueilhujtl: njmã ic vmpeoa in çonecali, navilhujtl in muchioaia: vncan in cujcacalli ixpan.
\nIvin in muchioaia, iuhquj in, in muchioaia: in jxqujchtin cioatitici, in jlamatque, yoan in jchpupuchti, yoan cequjntin avienjme:
\nmoxeloaia, monepãtlaxeloaia, izquj intlan mãtivi, in teteu innan, no izquj in qujnamjctivi, in qujtiiaiavtla, ic qujpopololtiaia in jtlaocul, qujtlatlacaaviloaia, qujvevetzqujtiaia, injc amo tlaocuiaz; auh in tlachocaz, qujlmach tlatetzaviz: qujl mjec iaumjqujz, in quauhtli ocelutl: anoço mjequjntin mocioaquetzazque in cioa in jmiti ic iazque.
\nAuh ivi in, in muchioaia injc çonecalia: achto peoa in teteu innan in tetoca, itlan mantivi in vevei titici. Iehoatl in Aoa: Jnjc vme Tlavitecquj. lnjc ei xoquauhtli. In iehoantin im eixtin y, ilamaiooa:
\ninjc
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"3581a129-f349-4fca-a380-1d6281d2f317","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":"was already late afternoon. And when there had been ceasing on the part of each one,[^4] the sun had already set. And when eight days had passed, then began the mock battle [of the women physicians]. For four days this was done there before the house of song and dance. \n\nIn this manner was it done; in this way this was done: there were all the women physicians—the old women as well as the maidens as well as some of the pleasure girls. \n\nThey divided themselves; they divided themselves into two equal parts. [The likeness of] Teteo innan went with a certain number; likewise as many went opposing her, keeping a skirmish against her. Thus they banished her sorrow, they kept gaining her attention, they kept making her laugh that she might not be sad. But if there were weeping, it was said, it would be an omen of evil. It was said that many eagle-ocelot warriors would die in war or that many women would become *mociuaquetzque* when from their wombs [children] would go. \n\nAnd in this manner was the mock fighting done: first the Teteo innan [party] began to pursue the others. With her were going the great women physicians. These were Aua; second, Tlauitequi; third, Xoquauhtli. These three were her old women. \n\nThus \n\n\n\n\n[^4]: *necaualoya* in *ibid*.","html":"was already late afternoon. And when there had been ceasing on the part of each one,1 the sun had already set. And when eight days had passed, then began the mock battle [of the women physicians]. For four days this was done there before the house of song and dance.
\nIn this manner was it done; in this way this was done: there were all the women physicians—the old women as well as the maidens as well as some of the pleasure girls.
\nThey divided themselves; they divided themselves into two equal parts. [The likeness of] Teteo innan went with a certain number; likewise as many went opposing her, keeping a skirmish against her. Thus they banished her sorrow, they kept gaining her attention, they kept making her laugh that she might not be sad. But if there were weeping, it was said, it would be an omen of evil. It was said that many eagle-ocelot warriors would die in war or that many women would become mociuaquetzque when from their wombs [children] would go.
\nAnd in this manner was the mock fighting done: first the Teteo innan [party] began to pursue the others. With her were going the great women physicians. These were Aua; second, Tlauitequi; third, Xoquauhtli. These three were her old women.
\nThus
\nnecaualoya in ibid.↩