de las diosas. También enramaban los altares donde estaban las estatuas de los ídolos particulares, en las casas del pueblo, y dábanles por esto en cada casa un chiquíhuitl de maíz o cuatro mazorcas; y los más pobres dábanlos dos o tres mazorcas. Llamaban a esto cacálotl, como quien dice "aguinaldo para que comiesen tostado". Y no lo comían todos, sino aquellos que eran ya conocidos por diligentes y trabaxadores.
\nA los tres días que andaban enramando, llegaba el dios que llamaban Telpuchtli y Tlamatzíncatl. Éste llegaba primero porque, como mancebo, andaba más y era más recio y ligero. Y así ofrecíanle al tercero día, y las ofrendas que le daban era semilla de bledos tostada y molida, y la revolvían con agua, y otro revolvían con miel, y hacían cuatro pellas desta masa y poníanlas en un plato. Ésta era la ofrenda de cada uno de los que habían de ofrecer, y luego las llegaban a ofrecer a aquel dios en su cu, y se las ponían delante.
\nA la noche, luego comenzaban a beber pulcre los viejos y las viejas. Decían que lavaban los pies al dios Telpuchtli, que había llegado de camino. En el cuarto día quitaban los ramos que habían
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\nAfter three days of covering [the altars] with branches, the god whom they called Telpochtli and Tlamatzincatl1 would arrive. This one would arrive first because, being a young man, he had more stamina and was stronger and faster [than the others]. And so they would make offerings to him on the third day. And the offerings that they would give him consisted of toasted, ground amaranth seeds, which they would mix with water or otherwise with honey; and they would form four balls with this dough and put them on a plate. This would be the offering made by each one of those who was obliged to make an offering; and then they would bring these [offerings] to that god in his cu and place them before him.
\nAt nightfall, the older men and women would start drinking pulque. They said that [by doing this] they were washing the feet of the god Telpochtli, who had just arrived from his journey. On the fourth day, they would take away the branches that they
\n“whom . . . Tlamatzincatl”: que llamaban Telpochtli y Tlamatzincatl. The Nahuatl text says that the god Telpochtli was called Tlamatzincatl.↩
pipielo in jmjxiptlaoan diablome:
\nauh in techachã novian onacxoiatemaia, qujnoalmaca, aço cen chiqujuhtzintli in tlaolli, anoço cintli, naolotl: in cana ieolotl: in cenca motolinja, omolotl in cintli qujoaltemaca: moteneoa, cacalotl ca qujmocalhujaia in telpopochtli: auh aiac çan nē mocalhujaia, can iehoantin in jmel, in tlacelianj, in tlamocujtlavianj, in cochiçanj, in amo tlatlacanequjnj in jmel.
\nAuh in ie ic ieilhujtl acxoiatemalo: iquac heco in telpochtli, itoca Tlamatzincatl, oaliacattivia, iehoatl achto heco: ipampa in oaliacattivia, ca oc telpochtli, oc chicaoac, tlacçanj, cotze: ipampa in achto oalaci,
\nyoan qujtlamanjliaia: in qujmanjliaia, mjchioauhtli, in tlapololli: achtopa qujcequj, qujtzomotza comalco, çatepan qujteci: auh in oqujtezque, çatepã qujpoloaia, atica: cequj necutica, in qujpoloaia: aço macujltetl, aço nauhtetl in coolo[loa,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"0e22f06e-66e4-42df-b5dc-5d487add7b81","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":"were kept the images of the devils. \n\nAnd when they were placing fir [branches] everywhere in people’s homes, [the householders] gave [the youths] perhaps a small basket of dried grains of maize, or else four ears of maize; in some places, three ears of maize; if [the householder] were very poor, it was two ears of maize[^5] that he gave them. It was stated: “They are tongs,”[^6] for the youths ate the maize toasted on the embers. And no one just idly ate the maize toasted on the embers; only those who were diligent, acceptable, careful, wakeful, who trusted not [too much] their [own] diligence. \n\nAnd on the third day of placing fir [branches], at that time arrived Telpochtli, named Tlamatzincatl.[^7] He came here ahead; this one arrived first. For this reason did he come here ahead: he indeed still was a youth; he was still strong; he had calves [to his legs]. For this reason he arrived here first. \n\nAnd they laid out an offering for him; that which they offered him was fish amaranth seed dough. First they roasted [the seeds]; they broke them up on an earthen griddle. Then they ground them up. And when they had ground them up, then they moistened them with water. Some they moistened with honey. Perhaps four pieces, perhaps five pieces it \n\n\n\n\n[^5]: *olotl*: maize cob in Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. II, p. 34; however, Sahagún usually renders it maize ear. \n\n\n[^6]: “*cueruo, o tenazuela… para comer granos de mayz tostado en el rescoldo*” (Molina, *Vocabulario*). In the corresponding text, Sahagún states: “*llamauan a esto cacalotl, como qujen dize agujnaldo.*”\n\n\n[^7]: These names are synonyms for Tezcatlipoca. Cf. Chap. 12 and Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. I, p. 152.","html":"were kept the images of the devils.
\nAnd when they were placing fir [branches] everywhere in people’s homes, [the householders] gave [the youths] perhaps a small basket of dried grains of maize, or else four ears of maize; in some places, three ears of maize; if [the householder] were very poor, it was two ears of maize1 that he gave them. It was stated: “They are tongs,”2 for the youths ate the maize toasted on the embers. And no one just idly ate the maize toasted on the embers; only those who were diligent, acceptable, careful, wakeful, who trusted not [too much] their [own] diligence.
\nAnd on the third day of placing fir [branches], at that time arrived Telpochtli, named Tlamatzincatl.3 He came here ahead; this one arrived first. For this reason did he come here ahead: he indeed still was a youth; he was still strong; he had calves [to his legs]. For this reason he arrived here first.
\nAnd they laid out an offering for him; that which they offered him was fish amaranth seed dough. First they roasted [the seeds]; they broke them up on an earthen griddle. Then they ground them up. And when they had ground them up, then they moistened them with water. Some they moistened with honey. Perhaps four pieces, perhaps five pieces it
\nolotl: maize cob in Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. II, p. 34; however, Sahagún usually renders it maize ear.↩
“cueruo, o tenazuela… para comer granos de mayz tostado en el rescoldo” (Molina, Vocabulario). In the corresponding text, Sahagún states: “llamauan a esto cacalotl, como qujen dize agujnaldo.”↩
These names are synonyms for Tezcatlipoca. Cf. Chap. 12 and Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. I, p. 152.↩