Todo estaba en calma lo que toca al servicio de los dioses. Al sexto día juntábanse los que tenían cargo de los barrios. Mandaban que se buscasen cañas para hacer saetas, y cada uno de los soldados traía una carga de cañas. Y todos juntos, del Tlatelulco y de México, ofrecían todas aquellas cañas a Huitzilopuchtli, poniéndolas en el patio, delante del cu deste dios. Luego allí las repartían a la otra gente, y cada uno llevaba a su casa las que le cabía.
\nOtro día venían al patio de Huitzilopuchtli todos los que habían llevado cañas para ende[re]zar las cañas al fuego. Este día no se hacía más de enderezar las cañas y volvíanlas a sus casas.
\nOtro día siguiente volvían con ellas al patio de Huitzilopuchtli, y venía toda la gente, chicos y grandes. No quedaba nadie. Y a todos los muchachos subíanlos al cu de Huitzilopuchtli. Allí los hacían tañer con los caracoles y cornetas, y los hacían cortar las orejas, y sacaban sangre y untábanlo por las sienes y por los rostros. Llamábase este sacrificio momazaizo, porque le hacían en memoria de los ciervos que habían de ir a cazar.
\nDesque se juntaban todos juntos en el patio de Huitzilopuchtli, los tenuchcas y los tlatilulcas, en
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\nThe next day, all those who had brought reeds would come to the patio of Huitzilopochtli in order to straighten up the reeds over the fire. On that day, nothing else would be done except for straightening the reeds and [then] bringing them back home.1
\nOn the following day, they would return with [the reeds] to the patio of Huitzilopochtli, and everyone would come—young and older people. No one would be left out. And they would bring all the young boys up to the cu of Huitzilopochtli. There they would make them play conch shells and bugles, make them cut their ears, and they would draw blood, which they would smear on their temples and faces. This sacrifice was called momazaizo, because they performed it in memory of the deer that they would soon go and hunt.
\nWhen all the Tenochcas and Tlatelolcans gathered together in the patio of Huitzilopochtli,
\nThe reeds were not burned up in the fire but were put in the fire in order to harden them. They were used as spear shafts.↩
macujlilhujtl in aiatle muchioaia, çan oc cactimanj:\nauh in õqujz macujlilhujtl: in jmuztlaioc, vncã in neacamaco, cecen tlamamalli in conanaia tequjoaque, in Tenuchtitlan, in Tlatilulco: in neacamacoia vncã in icxitlan Vitzilobuchtli: auh in õnemacoc, njmã ic qujitqujtze qujquequechpanoa.
\nAuh in jmuztlaioc, ie no ceppa ic viloa in jitoalco Vitzilobuchtli, tlatlemelaoaloz, motlemelaoaz in acatl: çan oc ixqujch, in muchioaia y: auh in vmmotlemelauh, oc ceppa çan no oalmotquj, oc ceppa intlatquj oalietiuh.
\nAuh injc eilhujtl, no ceppa viloa, mootquj in acatl, vel ixqujch cemolinj, in tequjoaque in telpuchtli, in tlapalivi: auh in oqujchpipiltotonti, qujtletlecavia in teucalli, vncã tlatlapitztoque, yoan mjçotoque: qujtequj in innacaz, in jmezço compatzca, incanaoacã conalaoa: mjtoaia, momaçaiço, quinneçaviliaia in mamaça, injc amjoaz.
\nAuh in ocēqujxoato teuitoalco: cecnj moteca in tenuchca, cecnj moteca in Tlatilul[ca:]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"0cdea1e0-cae3-4daa-a5bc-ec47f58a56c4","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 done for another five days.[^2] All still remained quite quiet. \n\nAnd when the five days had passed, upon the next day there was an offering of reeds there; each seasoned warrior took a load upon his back in Tenochtitlan, in Tlatelolco, when reeds were offered there at the foot of [the Temple of] Uitzilopochtli. And when they had been offered, then [others] came carrying them; they each bore them upon their shoulders [to their homes]. \n\nAnd, upon the morrow, once again there was going to the courtyard of [the Temple of] Uitzilopochtli. They were to straighten them over a fire; the reeds were to be straightened over a fire. Only this was still all that was done. And when they had been straightened in the fire, once again they were borne away; once again their burdens went away with them. \n\nAnd on the third day, once again there was going. The reeds were carried. Indeed all moved together—seasoned warriors, youths, young men of marriageable age. And the small boys they took, each one, up [the pyramid] to the temple. There they each sat blowing shell trumpets, and they sat bleeding themselves. They cut their ears; they pressed out their blood; they anointed their temples [with it]. It was said: “They anoint themselves with blood because of the deer.” They fasted for the deer, so that [the deer] would be hunted. \n\nAnd when there had been assembling in the temple courtyard, those of Tenochtitlan were spread on one side, those of \n\n\n\n\n[^2]: Corresponding Spanish text: “*salido el mes passado, cinco dias, no se hazia cerjmonja ninguna, ni fiesta en los cues.*”","html":"was done for another five days.1 All still remained quite quiet.
\nAnd when the five days had passed, upon the next day there was an offering of reeds there; each seasoned warrior took a load upon his back in Tenochtitlan, in Tlatelolco, when reeds were offered there at the foot of [the Temple of] Uitzilopochtli. And when they had been offered, then [others] came carrying them; they each bore them upon their shoulders [to their homes].
\nAnd, upon the morrow, once again there was going to the courtyard of [the Temple of] Uitzilopochtli. They were to straighten them over a fire; the reeds were to be straightened over a fire. Only this was still all that was done. And when they had been straightened in the fire, once again they were borne away; once again their burdens went away with them.
\nAnd on the third day, once again there was going. The reeds were carried. Indeed all moved together—seasoned warriors, youths, young men of marriageable age. And the small boys they took, each one, up [the pyramid] to the temple. There they each sat blowing shell trumpets, and they sat bleeding themselves. They cut their ears; they pressed out their blood; they anointed their temples [with it]. It was said: “They anoint themselves with blood because of the deer.” They fasted for the deer, so that [the deer] would be hunted.
\nAnd when there had been assembling in the temple courtyard, those of Tenochtitlan were spread on one side, those of
\nCorresponding Spanish text: “salido el mes passado, cinco dias, no se hazia cerjmonja ninguna, ni fiesta en los cues.”↩