una parte se ponían los tenuchcas y en otra los tlatilulcas. Comenzaban a hacer saetas. A este día llamaban tlacati in tlacochtli. En este día todos hacían penitencia. Todos sacaban sangre de las orejas, cortándose, y si alguno no se sangraba de las orejas tomábanle la manta los que tenían cuidado de recoger la gente, que llamaban tepan mani. Nunca más se la daban. Y los días que entendían en hacer estas saetas nadie dormía con mujer y nadie bebía pulcre.
\nTodas las saetas eran hechas a una medida, y los caxquillos, que eran unas puntas tan largas como un xeme, hechas de roble, eran también todas iguales. Todos cortaban las cañas a una medida. Cortadas, dábanlas a los que las ponían las puntas, y aquéllos atábanlas muy bien con ichtli, con hilos de nequén muy bien torcidos, porque no se hindiesen al meter de las puntas. Metían engrudo en el agujero de la caña, y luego la punta sobre el engrudo. En poniéndola la punta como había de estar, untaban con resina la atadura de la caña, y también al cabo donde había de herir la cuerda del arco.
\nEn acabando de aparejar las saetas, hacíanlas luego hacecillos de veinte en veinte, y luego se ordenaban como en procesión. Llevaban hacecillos todos a ponerlos, y presentábanlas delante de Huitzilopuch[tli]
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\nAll the arrows would be made in one size, and the all the arrowheads—which were some points as long as three inches,1 made of oak—would also be equal to each other. Everybody would cut the reeds to the same size. Once [the reeds] were cut, they would give them to those tasked with attaching the points to them, and they would tie [the points] on very well with ichtli, with strands of henequen,2 twisted very tightly so that [the shafts] would not split open when the points were inserted in them. They would put starch paste into the hollow of the reed and then put the point over the paste. As they adjusted the point in its proper place, they would smear resin on the cord tied around the reed, and also at the top [of the shaft] where it would rub against the bowstring.
\nWhen they finished assembling the arrows, they would then put them in small bundles of twenty, which were then placed in order, as if in a procession. They would take all the small bundles and place and present them before Huitzilopochtli.
\n“Three inches”: un xeme (that is, jeme). A jeme is an archaic measure defined as the span between the tips of the thumb and index finger when separated as much as possible. See DLE, s.v. jeme.↩
“Henequen”: nequén in LAGQ (the prevalent spelling for henequén at that time); the Hispanicized form of an Indigenous term—perhaps Mayan—with the same meaning as ichtli, the Nahuatl word for “thread” made of maguey fiber.↩
[Tlatilul]ca: njmã ie ic muchioa in mjtl: mjtoaia tlacati in tlacochtli, anoço yiaoaio.
\nAuh in jquac tlacatia, tlacochtli: neçaoaloia, qujneçaviliaia, ixqujch tlacatl, mjçoia: auh in aquj̄ itto, in amo mjço qujpepetlaoaia, aocmo qujmaca in jtilma, iccen qujtqujlia in tepãmanj.
\nAuh in jquac tlacatia mjtl, aiac cioacochia: auh in vevetque, amo quja in vctli, amo tlaoanaia, motlacaoaltiaia, qujmocaoaltiaia in vctli.
\nAuh in muchioaia mjtl, oalqujça itamachiuhca, çan much ixqujch, in muchioaia: auh in tlaxichtli, çã much ixqujch, atle chicoviac, atle tlapatiliaia:
\nnjmã ie ic tlateco in acatl, inmac qujoallaztivi, in tlatlaxichaquja in qujtlaxichaquja, vel qujchtecuja in acatl, vel ichtica qujtetecuja, injc amo cujtlatzaianjz in tlaxichtli: tzacupã in cõquetza, injc vel tilinjz, injc vel tzitzicaz.
\nAuh in ocõcencauhque: njmã ie ic cocotzovia, in jquac, yoan itzintlan, çan iciuhcã muchioa.
\nAuh in
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\nAnd at the time that the spears were being born, there was fasting; they fasted for them. Everyone anointed himself with his blood. And if anyone was seen who did not anoint himself with his blood, they repeatedly stripped him; nevermore did they give him his cape. The overseers took it from him for good.
\nAnd when spears were being born, no [man] lay with a woman. And the old men drank no pulque; they became not drunk. They abstained; they abstained from pulque.
\nAnd when spears were being made, their measure came forth. They were made all quite the same, and the bolts were all quite the same. None were unequal in length; on none did they make changes.
\nThereupon the reeds were cut. They went to put them in the hands of those who fitted the bolts, those who put on the bolts. Well did they tie the [ends of the] reeds with maguey fiber; well did they keep binding them with maguey fiber, so that the bolt would not split back. They set [the points] in glue so that they would indeed hold fast, so that they would be well embedded.
\nAnd when they had [thus] prepared them, thereupon they applied pine pitch to the heads and the ends. This was done quite quickly.
\nAnd when
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