Al mes décimo séptimo llaman títitl. En este mes mataban a una mujer esclava, comprada por los calpixques. Matábanla a honra a honra [sic] de la diosa Ilamatecuhtli. Decían que era su imagen. Atavíabanla con unas naoas blancas y un huipil blanco, y encima de las naoas poníanla otras naoas de cuero, cortadas y hechas correas por la parte de abaxo, y de cada una de las correas llevaba un caracolito colgado. A estas naoas llamábanla citlalli icue, y los caracolitos que llevaba colgado llamábanlos cuechtli. Y cuando iba andando esta mujer con estos atavíos los caracolitos tocábanse unos con otros, y hacían gran ruido, que se buían lexos. Las cotaras que llevaban eran blancas, y los calcaños eran texidos de algodón. Llevaba también una ro[dela]
\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":"4908b7e5-e754-46d3-9454-89ab4d3180cb","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":"#### Chapter 36: On the festival and sacrifices that were performed during the initial days of the seventeenth month, which was called Tititl \n\nThey call the seventeenth month Tititl. During this month, they would kill a female slave, one purchased by the _calpixques_. They would kill her in honor[^172] of the goddess Ilamateuctli. They said that she was her image. They would dress her in some white skirts[^173] and a white _huipil_. And on top of the skirts, they would put other leather skirts, which were cut into straps on the lower part; and there would be a little shell hanging from each strap. They called these skirts _citlalli icue_, and they called the little shells that hung from them _cuechtli_. And when this woman would go about dressed in these garments, the little shells would rattle against each other, making a loud noise that could be heard from afar. The sandals that she would wear were white, with the heels woven out of cotton. She would also carry a \n\n\n[^172]: The phrase “in honor” is mistakenly written twice in the manuscript.\n\n[^173]: “Skirts”: _naguas_ (here and the next three instances).","html":"They call the seventeenth month Tititl. During this month, they would kill a female slave, one purchased by the calpixques. They would kill her in honor1 of the goddess Ilamateuctli. They said that she was her image. They would dress her in some white skirts2 and a white huipil. And on top of the skirts, they would put other leather skirts, which were cut into straps on the lower part; and there would be a little shell hanging from each strap. They called these skirts citlalli icue, and they called the little shells that hung from them cuechtli. And when this woman would go about dressed in these garments, the little shells would rattle against each other, making a loud noise that could be heard from afar. The sandals that she would wear were white, with the heels woven out of cotton. She would also carry a
\nInjc caxtoltetl omume ilhujtl iehoatl in moteneoa, itoca Tititl:\nin jpan in ilhujtl, ce tlacatl mjquja, itoca: Ilama tecutli, ixiptla, tlaaltilli: calpixque in qujnextia.
\nAuh in jnechichioal catca in Ilama tecutli, iztac in jcue, iztac in jvipil, çan cemjztac: auh in panj qujmocuetia, itoca citlalli icue: inin cuechtli in tlachioalli, cuetlaxtli in tlapipitzaoacaxotlalli, tlapipitzaoacatectli, yiacac in tlatlatlalilli cuechtli; panj ic ommotzincuetia: in jquac nenemj cenca xaxamaca, veca caqujzti: yoan icacac, iztac in jquetzil, in jquequetzil: icpatl injc tlaqujttli,
\nyoan ichimal, çã tiçachimalli, quauhpachiuhquj: in jnepantla quauhivitl in tlachioalli, inepantla in tlatzõtli, chimalli, yoan tentlapilollo, az[tatl]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"e9e60cc0-bef5-4385-bebd-051eda2ae6f7","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":"#### Thirty-sixth Chapter, where are related the feast day and the debt-paying which were observed during all the days of the seventeenth month, which was called Tititl.[^1] \n\nThe seventeenth feast was the one known as Tititl.\n\nAt the time of this feast there died a person named Ilama tecutli—[one in] her likeness, a ceremonially bathed one. The stewards displayed her. \n\nAnd her adornment was that of Ilama tecutli. She had her white skirt, her white shift—completely white. And over this she was dressed in what was named her star skirt. This was made with small shells on cured skin cut into long, thin strips, the shells set in at the end of each [strip]. She wore it about her hips over [the other skirt]. When she walked, loudly did it jingle; it was audible for a distance. And her sandals had white toes, each toe woven with cotton thread. \n\nAnd her shield was only a chalky shield pasted with eagle feathers. Its center was made of eagle feathers sewn to the middle of the shield, and it had pendants of heron feathers \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: “*Estiramiento,*” Garibay suggests in “Relación breve,” p. 314. Orozco y Berra, in *Historia antigua*, Vol. II, p. 39, writes: “Tititl. *Torquemada traduce, tiempo apretado; Boturini, vientre ó nuestro vientre. Gama rechaza como falsa la interpretacion de Boturini, y saca la suya del verbo* titixia, *rebuscar despues de la cosecha.*” Torquemada, in *Segunda parte,* p. 300, amplifies his version thus: “*porque lo era de frios, y heladas, las quales sentian mucho por la poca ropa de que vsaban, y porque por este mismo tiempo, andaban apretados, con Guerras, y Asaltos, que tenian las vnas Provincias contra las otras, y se mataban, y destruian vnos à otros.*” \n\n\nDurán (*Historia*, Vol. II, pp. 301–302) writes: “*quiere decir estirar… imaginaban en el cielo dos niños estirándose el uno al otro…. había bailes de mugeres y hombres asidos unos con otros de las manos.*”","html":"The seventeenth feast was the one known as Tititl.
\nAt the time of this feast there died a person named Ilama tecutli—[one in] her likeness, a ceremonially bathed one. The stewards displayed her.
\nAnd her adornment was that of Ilama tecutli. She had her white skirt, her white shift—completely white. And over this she was dressed in what was named her star skirt. This was made with small shells on cured skin cut into long, thin strips, the shells set in at the end of each [strip]. She wore it about her hips over [the other skirt]. When she walked, loudly did it jingle; it was audible for a distance. And her sandals had white toes, each toe woven with cotton thread.
\nAnd her shield was only a chalky shield pasted with eagle feathers. Its center was made of eagle feathers sewn to the middle of the shield, and it had pendants of heron feathers
\nDurán (Historia, Vol. II, pp. 301–302) writes: “quiere decir estirar… imaginaban en el cielo dos niños estirándose el uno al otro…. había bailes de mugeres y hombres asidos unos con otros de las manos.”
\n“Estiramiento,” Garibay suggests in “Relación breve,” p. 314. Orozco y Berra, in Historia antigua, Vol. II, p. 39, writes: “Tititl. Torquemada traduce, tiempo apretado; Boturini, vientre ó nuestro vientre. Gama rechaza como falsa la interpretacion de Boturini, y saca la suya del verbo titixia, rebuscar despues de la cosecha.” Torquemada, in Segunda parte, p. 300, amplifies his version thus: “porque lo era de frios, y heladas, las quales sentian mucho por la poca ropa de que vsaban, y porque por este mismo tiempo, andaban apretados, con Guerras, y Asaltos, que tenian las vnas Provincias contra las otras, y se mataban, y destruian vnos à otros.”↩