ofrecer a los dioses recién llegados, y lo que ofrecían era aquellos tamales de semillas que habían hecho el día antes. En acabando de ofrecer, luego se iban a sus casas. No quedaba allí nadie.
\nY a la noche bebían pulcre los viejos y viejas. Decían que lavaban los pies a los dioses.
\nEl día siguiente llegaba el dios de los mercaderes, llamado Yacapitzáhuac o Yiacatecuhtli, y otro dios llamado Ixcozauhqui o Xiuhtecuhtli, que es el dios del fuego, a quien los mercaderes tienen mucha devoción. Estos dos llegaban a la postre, un día después de los otros, porque decían que eran viejos y no andaban tanto como los otros.
\nAcabado esto, luego quemaban vivos a muchos esclavos, echándolos vivos en el fuego en un altar grande que se llamaba teccalco, que tenía gradas por cuatro partes. Encima del altar andaba bailando un mancebo aderezado con una cabellera de cabellos largos, con un plumaje de plumas ricas con la corona. La cara teníala teñida de negro, con unas rayas de blanco, una que salía desde la punta de la ceja hacia lo alto de la frente, y otra que descendía desde el lagrimal del ojo hacia la maxilla, haciendo medio círculo. Traía a cuestas un plumaje que se llama[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":"f4950925-1c71-4547-9285-577729166dfe","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":"them to the gods who had just arrived. And what they would offer were those tamales made with seeds, which they had prepared the day before. When they finished making the offerings, then they would all go home. No one would remain in that place. \n\nAnd at night, the older men and women would drink pulque. They said that [by doing this] they were washing the gods’ feet. \n\nThe next day, the god of the merchants, called Yacapitzahuac or Yacateuctli, would arrive, as well as another god called Ixcozcauhqui or Xiuhteuctli, who is the god of fire and to whom the merchants are very devoted. These two would be the last ones to arrive, one day after the others, for they said that they were older and could not walk as fast as the others. \n\nWhen this was over, they would promptly burn many slaves alive, throwing them alive into the fire, which was on a large altar that was called Teccalco, which had steps on its four sides. A young man dressed in a wig of long hair—with a feather ornament of valuable feathers on its crown—would be dancing on top of the altar.[^141] His face would be dyed black, with some white stripes, one of which started from the tip of the eyebrow and went to the top of the forehead, and another that came down making a half-circle from the eye’s tear duct toward the cheek. He would be wearing on his back a feather ornament that was called \n\n\n[^141]: The Nahuatl text specifies that the dancer was impersonating a _techalotl_ (squirrel).","html":"them to the gods who had just arrived. And what they would offer were those tamales made with seeds, which they had prepared the day before. When they finished making the offerings, then they would all go home. No one would remain in that place.
\nAnd at night, the older men and women would drink pulque. They said that [by doing this] they were washing the gods’ feet.
\nThe next day, the god of the merchants, called Yacapitzahuac or Yacateuctli, would arrive, as well as another god called Ixcozcauhqui or Xiuhteuctli, who is the god of fire and to whom the merchants are very devoted. These two would be the last ones to arrive, one day after the others, for they said that they were older and could not walk as fast as the others.
\nWhen this was over, they would promptly burn many slaves alive, throwing them alive into the fire, which was on a large altar that was called Teccalco, which had steps on its four sides. A young man dressed in a wig of long hair—with a feather ornament of valuable feathers on its crown—would be dancing on top of the altar.1 His face would be dyed black, with some white stripes, one of which started from the tip of the eyebrow and went to the top of the forehead, and another that came down making a half-circle from the eye’s tear duct toward the cheek. He would be wearing on his back a feather ornament that was called
\nThe Nahuatl text specifies that the dancer was impersonating a techalotl (squirrel).↩
ic neci, ca ohecoque in teteu:
\nnjman ic qujoalitoa, in teuoa. Ca omecavi in tlacatl:\nin ocacoc: njmã ic maantimoquetza in tlapitzalo, qujtzacutimomana: njmã ic macho, ca ohecoque in teteu.
\nAuh in jxqujch maceoalli, njman ic vivi, viviloa, in tlatlamanazque inteupã, in inteteupan diablome: çã moche in tlapololli, in qujnmanjlia.
\nauh in ontlatlamanaloc, njman ic cactivetzi.
\nAuh in ie iooa: çan ie no ivi in qujchioa, tlatlaoana in vevetque, in jlamatzitzin, qujlmach, gujmjcxipaca in ohecoque teteu.
\nAuh in jmuztlaioc, iquac heco in Jacapitzaoac, inj Jacatecutli: pochteca inteouh catca, yoa in Ixcoçauhquj, iehoatl in Xiuhtecutli, çan no pochteca inteouh catca, ça oallatzacujtivia, ça oallatoqujlitivia, ça qujoalcentzacujtivia: iehica ca ie vevetque.
\nAuh in jquac in, njman ic peoa in tetlepantlaxo, vncan in teccalco: vel mjequjntin, in qujntlepantlaçaia, mamal[tzitzinti:]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"84bc34eb-e429-4c2d-b31f-c6046cfd7116","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":"appeared that the gods had indeed arrived. \n\nThen he who kept the god said to them: “Indeed the lord hath deigned to come.”\n \nWhen this was heard, then [the priests] came together to go in procession, while shell trumpets were blown. It became generally known; then it was known that indeed the gods had arrived. \n\nAnd all the common folk then went; there was going on the part of each one to lay offerings, each one, in their temples, the temples of the devils. All offered them balls of dough. \n\nAnd when each had made the offerings, then all was still. \n\nAnd when already night fell, in the same manner as they had done [previously], the old men, the esteemed old women each drank pulque. It was said: “They bathe the feet of the gods who have arrived.”\n\nAnd when it was the next day, it was the time that Yacapitzauac arrived; this one was Yiacatecutli; he was the merchants’ god. And Ixcoçauhqui: this one was Xiuhtecutli; he likewise was the merchants’ god. These came here only at the last, they came here only following, they came here only last of all because indeed they were already old.\n\nAnd at this time then there began the casting [of victims] into the fire there on the large altar.[^10] Indeed many were the poor captives whom \n\n\n\n\n[^10]: See a description of the *teccalco* in the appendix of this volume.","html":"appeared that the gods had indeed arrived.
\nThen he who kept the god said to them: “Indeed the lord hath deigned to come.”
\nWhen this was heard, then [the priests] came together to go in procession, while shell trumpets were blown. It became generally known; then it was known that indeed the gods had arrived.
\nAnd all the common folk then went; there was going on the part of each one to lay offerings, each one, in their temples, the temples of the devils. All offered them balls of dough.
\nAnd when each had made the offerings, then all was still.
\nAnd when already night fell, in the same manner as they had done [previously], the old men, the esteemed old women each drank pulque. It was said: “They bathe the feet of the gods who have arrived.”
\nAnd when it was the next day, it was the time that Yacapitzauac arrived; this one was Yiacatecutli; he was the merchants’ god. And Ixcoçauhqui: this one was Xiuhtecutli; he likewise was the merchants’ god. These came here only at the last, they came here only following, they came here only last of all because indeed they were already old.
\nAnd at this time then there began the casting [of victims] into the fire there on the large altar.1 Indeed many were the poor captives whom
\nSee a description of the teccalco in the appendix of this volume.↩