[u]no llevaban cuatro, dos por los pie y dos por los brazos. Llevábanlos boca arriba. Llegados arriba echábanlos sobre el taxón, y abríanlos los pechos y sacábanlos los corazones. Subíanlos a éstos desta manera en significación que eran como ciervos que iban atados a la muerte. Los demás esclavos iban por su pie.
\nHabiendo muerto a todos éstos, a la postre mataban a la imagen del dios Mixcóatl, porque todos los mataban en su cu. Y a los que eran del dios Tlamatzíncatl también los mataban en su cu. Subíanse de su cu. Iban al taxón donde los mataban en el cu de Tlamatzíncatl. Las mujeres matábanlas en otro cu que llamaban Coatlan, ante que a los hombres, y las mujeres cuando subían las gradas unas cantaban y otras gritaban y otras lloraban. Iban llevándolas por los brazos algunos hombres porque no desmayasen, y después que las habían muerto no las arrojaban por las gradas abaxo, sino descendíanlas rodando poco a poco.
\nEstaban abaxo, cerca del lugar donde espetaban las cabezas, dos mujeres viejas que llamaban teixamique. Tenían cabe sí unas xícaras con tamales y una
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\nHaving killed all of these [captives], they would kill the image of the god Mixcoatl last, because they would kill all of them in their own cu.1 And they would also kill those who belonged to the god Tlamatzincatl in his own cu. They would climb [to the top] of his cu. They would go to the sacrificial stone in the cu of Tlamatzincatl, where they would kill them. Before [killing] the men, they would kill the women in another cu that they called Coatlan; and as the women were climbing up the steps, some of them would sing, others would scream, and others would weep. Some men would be holding them by the arms so that they would not faint; and after they had killed them, they would not toss them down the steps but would roll them down little by little instead.
\nTwo older women called teixamihqueh would be waiting down below, near the place where they would impale the heads. They would have near them some jícaras filled with tamales and a
\nThat is, each god impersonator (teixiptlah) was sacrificed in his or her own temple.↩
in mamalti mjquj navintin: apetlac in qujmjilpilia imjcxi yoã inma: mec qujntlecavia, qujnnanauhcavia, qujntitilinjlitivi in jnma, in jmjcxi: âaquetztivi, tlalchi oalpipilcatiuh in intzontecon.
\nAuh in oqumonaxitique, mec qujmõteca in techcac vncã qujmõmjctia.
\nAuh injc iuh qujntlecavia, y, qujlmach ic qujnmaçapoloa, qujntlaehecalhuja in mamaça, in juh mjquj: auh in oc cequjntin mamalti, çan õmonomavia in ontleco. Auh in õmjcque, in ontlacotique: çatepan in ommjquj Mixcoatl. Auh in mjquja y Mjxcoateupã: njman iehoantin in tlamatzīca, vmpa mjquj tlamatzinco: auh injc mjquj, çan õmonomatlecavia, çan in iollotlamati in ontleco: njmã techcac ontlamelauhtimanj: auh in mjquja y, vncan in tlamatzinco.
\nAuh in cioa vel oc ioatzinco in mjquja, vmpan coatlan: in jquac tleco, cenca cujcativi, cequjntin mjtotitivi, in cequj̄tin vel choca: auh in teanque
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"48184dbb-1a6c-454f-a216-cf62e746ba7e","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":"four captives went ahead to die. At the landing at the foot of the pyramid they bound their feet and their hands. Then they took them up; four [priests] carried each one of them; they went pulling them by their arms [and] their legs; [the captives] went bobbing their heads up and down; their heads went hanging toward the ground. \n\nAnd when they had brought them, then they stretched them on the offering stone. There they slew them. \n\nAnd as they took them up, it was said: “Thus they slay them as deer; they serve as the deer who thus die.” And the rest of the captives climbed up purely of their own will. And when they had died, when they had given their service, then [the likeness of] Mixcoatl died. And when he had died, at the Temple of Mixcoatl, then [the likenesses of] Tlamatzincatl died; they died there at [the Temple of] Tlamatzincatl. And thus did they die: they climbed up purely of their own will; of their own accord they ascended. Then they went straight to the offering stone and then they died there at [the Temple of] Tlamatzincatl. \n\nAnd the women died when it was indeed still dawn there at [the Temple of] Coatlan. When they ascended, they went singing lustily. Some went dancing. Some indeed wept. And the escorts went holding them","html":"four captives went ahead to die. At the landing at the foot of the pyramid they bound their feet and their hands. Then they took them up; four [priests] carried each one of them; they went pulling them by their arms [and] their legs; [the captives] went bobbing their heads up and down; their heads went hanging toward the ground.
\nAnd when they had brought them, then they stretched them on the offering stone. There they slew them.
\nAnd as they took them up, it was said: “Thus they slay them as deer; they serve as the deer who thus die.” And the rest of the captives climbed up purely of their own will. And when they had died, when they had given their service, then [the likeness of] Mixcoatl died. And when he had died, at the Temple of Mixcoatl, then [the likenesses of] Tlamatzincatl died; they died there at [the Temple of] Tlamatzincatl. And thus did they die: they climbed up purely of their own will; of their own accord they ascended. Then they went straight to the offering stone and then they died there at [the Temple of] Tlamatzincatl.
\nAnd the women died when it was indeed still dawn there at [the Temple of] Coatlan. When they ascended, they went singing lustily. Some went dancing. Some indeed wept. And the escorts went holding them
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