las echaban en el fuego, sino juntábanlas para echarlas en el agua.
\nEn acabando de comer esta comida, luego bebían pulcre los viejos del barrio en la casa del calpulco donde estaba la estatua, y llamaban esta bebida texcalcehuía. Bebían y cantaban delante la imagen de Xiuhtecuhtli hasta la noche.
\nÉsta es la relación de la fiesta que llamaban huauhquiltamalcualiztli.
\nLo que está dicho arriba se hacía a los diez días deste mes, y a los veinte días deste mismo mes hacían otra vez la estatua del dios del fuego, de palillos y círculos atados unos con otros, como arriba se dixo. Acabada de hacer la estatua, poníanla una carátula o máscara hecha de musaico, de pedacitos de conchas que llaman tapachtli. La barba y hasta la boca tenía esta máscara de piedras negras, que llamaban téutetl. También tenía una banda de piedras negras que atravesaba las narices y ambos los rostros.1 Era hecha de unas piedras que se llama tezcapuctli. Poníanle en la cabeza una corona de plumajes ricos que estaban alrededor de la cabeza, y del medio salían muchos quetzales ricos y altos. Colgaban de esta corona sobre las espaldas unas plumas verdes muy preciosas. Tenía aquella corona
\nDebe decir "ojos".↩
but would gather them together in order to throw them in the water.
\nAs soon as they finished eating this meal, the older men from the barrio would start drinking pulque in the calpulco house where the statue was kept. And they called this drink texcalcehuia. They would drink and sing in front of the image of Xiuhteuctli until nightfall.
\nThis is the account of the festival that they called Huauhquiltamalcualiztli.1
\nThe [rituals] described above would be performed on the tenth day of this month. And on the twentieth day of this same month, they would make the statue of the god of fire again, using little sticks and circles tied to each other, as mentioned above. Once they finished making the statue, they would put a mask or face covering on it, made out of mosaic with little pieces of those conch shells that they call tapachtli. This mask would have black stones that they called teotetl from the chin to the mouth. It would also have a band of black stones that crossed over its nose and both eyes.2 It would be made of some stones called tezcapoctli. They would place on its head a crown of valuable feather ornaments that went around its head and had many precious and tall quetzales3 coming out of its center. Some very precious green feathers would hang down from this crown over the statue’s back. The peak of that crown
\nThis sentence refers to what was just described. What follows are the rituals performed during the rest of the last month of the year. The ritual feast of Huauhquiltamalcualiztli is described at length in the next chapter.↩
“Eyes”: The Spanish text reads rostros (faces), not ojos (eyes), but LAGQ (1:262), probably supported by iconographical evidence, argue that the latter noun is correct. The Nahuatl text states that the band went “across its face and both eyes” (ixtlan tlatlaan). It was a horizontal black stripe.↩
quetzales: that is, “precious green feathers,” not the birds themselves. Sahagún Hispanicizes, in the plural form, the Nahuatl word quetzalli, which has entered the English language as quetzal (sing.), quetzals or quetzales (pl.), referring to the bird itself.↩
[cujca]toque, çan iuh iooa, njcã tlamj ic tzonqujça, in oauhqujltamalli qualo, in anoço vauhqujltamalqualiztli.
\nAuh in onacic Izcalli, in jquac tlacempoalti: iquac motlaxqujaia in Milintoc, çan no ie in tletl: no qujtlaliaia ixiptla, çan no colotli in qujchoaia, conaquja ixaiac, tapachtli in tlachioalli, motentlilhuj, in tlilli muchioa, iehoatl in tliltic tetl, motocaiotiaia teutetl, yoan ixtlan tlatlaan, tezcapoctli ica:
\nauh in conaquja itzontecon, iehoatl in tozpololli in jcuexpal muchiuhtica, tziuhtli in tlachioalli, itziuhcuexpal, yoan contecatica itlachinolsuchiuh, totolquechtapalcatl in tlachioalli: iehoatl in juhquj xoxotla, yoan cueçalin in tlaxconolli: yoan tlavipantli: in jquac conteca iuhqujnma nelli tlatlatoc: auh in jtlaquē çã no cueçalin in tlachioalli, cueçalquemjtl, no veca vilantoc.
\nAuh ixpan qujmanaia vilocpalli, anoço macuextlaxcalli: tlaolli in qujteci: auh in ie iotextli, njmã catotonjlpachoa, çatepan tzopelia: njmã ic qujmana in tlaxcalli, cequj tlaoio, epa[oaxtlaoio,]
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\nAnd when Izcalli arrived, when twenty days were counted, at that time Milintoc roasted something for himself. He likewise was [god of] fire. They also set up his image; it also was only a framework which they made.1 They put a mask upon it made of [a mosaic of bits of] seashell. The lower part of the face was blackened, made black [with] black stones called teotetl [jet], and the face was striped horizontally with black mirror stones.
\nAnd upon his head they fitted a ball of yellow parrot feathers. His tuft of hair at the back of his head was made of turquoise-browed motmot feathers: they were his motmot-tuft of hair at the back of his head. And they set on him his fire-flowers, made of turkey hen neck feathers.2 It was as if this flared up, and [it had] plucked [single] flaming red feathers; and they were set in order.3 When they put it on, it was as if in truth it lay burning. And his vestments were made only of flaming red feathers—a flaming red feather cape which also trailed far.
\nAnd they laid before him tortillas made of uncooked ground maize,4 or bracelet tortillas. They ground the maize, and when it was already corn-meal, then they moistened it with hot water; then it was sweetened. Then they offered the tortillas. Some were with shelled beans
\nCorresponding Spanish text: “hazian otra vez, estatua del dios, del fuego, de palillos, y circulos atados, vnos con otros.”↩
Corresponding Spanish text: “Tenja aquella corona adornado el chapitel, de vnas plumas muy negras, que resplandecian, de negras: que crian las gallinas, y los gallos en el pescueço.” Cf. also tapalcatl in Dibble and Anderson, Book XI, p. 54.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: “entrepuestas vnas pestañas, de plumas peladas, que parescian como pestañas de tafetan.”↩
uilocpalli: “una manera de tortas que llaman uilocpalli, de maíz molido, hechas sin cocer” (Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. III, p. 57).↩