[Huitzilopuch]tli. Allí las ponían todas juntas. En acabándolas de poner íbanse a sus casas.
\nAl cuarto día llamaban calpan nemitilo, que quiere decir "el día que se hacen saetas particulares para jugar con ellas", para enexercitarse en el tirar, y ponían por blanco una hoja de maguey, y tirábanla. Aquí parecían quiénes eran los más certeros en tirar.
\nAl quinto día hacían unas saeticas pequeñas a honra de los difuntos. Eran largas como un xeme o palmo, y poníanlas resina en las puntas, y en el cabo el caxquillo era de un palo. De por ahí ataban cuatro saeticas y cuatro teas con hilo de algodón floxo, y poníanlas sobre las sepulturas de los difuntos. También ponían juntamente un par de tamales dulces. Todo el día estaba esto [en] las sepulturas, y a la puesta del Sol encendían las teas, y allí se quemaban las teas y las saetas. El carbón y ceniza que dellas se hacía enterrábanlo sobre la sepultura del muerto.
\nA honra de los que habían muerto en la guerra tomaban una caña de maíz que tenía nueve nudos, y ponían en la punta della un papel como bandera, y otro largo que colgaba hasta abaxo. Al pie de la
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\nThey called the fourth day calpan nemitilo, which means “day for making arrows specifically for playing with them”—[that is,] for practicing their shooting. And they would set up a maguey leaf as a target and shoot at it. This is when the most accurate marksmen would reveal themselves.
\nOn the fifth day, they would make some little arrows to honor the dead. These [little arrows] would be about three inches or one hand span long;1 and they would put resin on the points, and the end of the arrowhead would be made of wood. They would tie four little arrows and four torches taken from that batch with loose cotton thread, and put these on the graves of the dead. They would also put a pair of sweet tamales together with them. They would spend the whole day at the graves doing this; and at sunset, they would light the torches, and there both the torches and the arrows would be burned. They would bury the charcoal and the ash that were produced by them over the grave of the dead person.
\nTo honor those who had died in battle, they would take a maize stalk with nine knots and put a paper, like a banner, on its tip, as well as another long [paper] that would hang down to the bottom.
\n“Three . . . span”: un xeme o un palmo; see n147.↩
oiecauh, njmã ie ic tlacujtlalpilo, cecempoalli in mocujtlalpia: auh in otlacenqujz, njmã ie ic onnetecpanalo, onnevipanolo, oncempantioa in mocaoaz in vmpa icxitlan Vitzilobuchtli, vncan concentecpichoa: auh in õmomamanato, njmã ic viviloa.
\nAuh injc navilhujtl, mjtoaia, calpã nemjtilo, ixqujch tlacatl momjtiaia intechachan, çan iuhquj injc neaviltilo, tel ic neieiecoloia, ic nemamachtiloia: ce veca qujoalquetzaia metl, qujmjmjna, vncan neci in aqujque vel qujmaiavi, in vel momaimati, in vellamjna.
\nAuh injc macujlilhujtl, ça mjxcaviaia in mjmjcque, qujnchichiviliaia, mjtotonti, çeçemjztitl, no achitoton ic conoocotzovia: auh in jtlaxichio, çan tlacotl: navi mjtl, no navi ocotl, concujtlalpia ica potonquj, impã contetema, in vncan toctitoque, mjmjcque: yoan ontetl tzopelic tamalli, contetema, vncan cemjlhujtia: auh in ie oncalaquj tonatiuh, njman ie ic qujntlatlatilia, in çan ie
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"0eaaa4e0-938f-4ae3-a1d7-505f0c5ae7b7","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":"they were finished, thereupon they were bound together at the middle; in twenties were they bound together at the middle. And when they were assembled, thereupon there was their arranging in rows, their ordering in line, their arranging in file to leave [the bundles] there at the foot of [the Temple of] Uitzilopochtli. There they heaped them together. And when they had come to make [this] offering, then there was departing on the part of each one [to their homes]. \n\nAnd the fourth day was called “They are made to live in the houses.” Everyone used arrows, each one at his home, only to amuse themselves with them. Yet there were continual trials of skill with them; there was continual learning with them. They would put up a maguey [leaf] at a distance; they shot arrows at it continually. There appeared some who could knock it down, those who were dexterous, who shot arrows well. \n\nAnd upon the fifth day one was concerned only with the dead. For each of them were made very small arrows, each one of a hand’s length.[^3] Also they applied only a little resin on each one. And their bolts were only sticks. They bound four arrows [and] also four pine torches about the middle with loose cotton thread; they laid each [bundle] where the dead lay buried. And they placed on each one two sweet tamales. There they stayed all day. And at sundown, they thereupon burned them for [the dead], in the \n\n\n\n\n[^3]: Corresponding Spanish text: “*eran largas, como vn xeme, o palmo.*”","html":"they were finished, thereupon they were bound together at the middle; in twenties were they bound together at the middle. And when they were assembled, thereupon there was their arranging in rows, their ordering in line, their arranging in file to leave [the bundles] there at the foot of [the Temple of] Uitzilopochtli. There they heaped them together. And when they had come to make [this] offering, then there was departing on the part of each one [to their homes].
\nAnd the fourth day was called “They are made to live in the houses.” Everyone used arrows, each one at his home, only to amuse themselves with them. Yet there were continual trials of skill with them; there was continual learning with them. They would put up a maguey [leaf] at a distance; they shot arrows at it continually. There appeared some who could knock it down, those who were dexterous, who shot arrows well.
\nAnd upon the fifth day one was concerned only with the dead. For each of them were made very small arrows, each one of a hand’s length.1 Also they applied only a little resin on each one. And their bolts were only sticks. They bound four arrows [and] also four pine torches about the middle with loose cotton thread; they laid each [bundle] where the dead lay buried. And they placed on each one two sweet tamales. There they stayed all day. And at sundown, they thereupon burned them for [the dead], in the
\nCorresponding Spanish text: “eran largas, como vn xeme, o palmo.”↩