ellos. Los que nacían en estos días teníanlos por mal afortunados. Ningún signo los aplicaban.
\nTres años arreo hacían lo que arriba está dicho en este mes y en esta fiesta; pero al cuarto año hacían muchas otras cosas, según que se sigue:
\nEste cuarto año mataban muchos esclavos como imágines del dios del fuego, que llamaban Ixcozauhqui o Xiuhtecuhtli. Y cada uno dellos iba con su mujer, que también había de morir.
\nEste cuarto año, el último día deste mes, en amaneciendo, llevaban a los que habían de morir al cu donde los habían de matar. Las mujeres que habían de morir llevaban todos sus hatillos y todas sus alhajas a cuestas, y los hombres lo mismo. Los papeles con que habían de morir no los llevaban vestidos, mas llevábaselos uno delante, puestos en una trípoda, que era un globo que tenía tres pies sobre que estaba. Sería medio estado de alta esta trípoda. Sobre el globo iban compuestos estos papeles, y colgados, y uno llevaba esta trípoda delante del mesmo esclavo a quien se los habían de vestir. Y llegando al cu donde habían de morir, componíanlos con sus papeles en la forma del dios Ixcozauhqui, ansí a los hombres como a las mujeres, y por su orden subíanlos al cu. Llegados arriba, daban vuelta por delante del taxón donde los habían de matar, y tornábanlos a descendir por su orden, y llevábanlos al calpulco, y descomponíanlos de los papeles, y metíanlos en
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\nFor three years straight, they would do what has been described above during this month and this festival; but in the fourth year, they would do many other things, such as the following:
\nDuring this fourth year, they would kill many slaves as images of the god of fire, whom they called Ixcozauhqui or Xiuhteuctli. And each one of them would be accompanied by his woman [consort], who would also have to die.
\nDuring the fourth year, on the last day of this month, at the break of dawn, they would take those who were assigned to die to the cu where they would kill them. The women assigned to die would be carrying all their little bundles and all their precious belongings on their backs; and the men would do the same. They would not yet be wearing the papers that they would have to wear when they died, but one [person] would be carrying these [papers] ahead of them in a tripod, which was a globe that stood on three legs. This tripod was around two feet tall.1 These papers would be arranged hanging down over the globe, and one [person] would be carrying this tripod in front of the very slave who would later be dressed with [these papers]. And upon arriving at the cu where they would die, they would dress both the men and the women with their papers, in the guise of the god Ixcozauhqui, and make them climb up to the cu in proper order. When they got to the top, they would go around and in front of the sacrificial stone where they would [later] be killing them;2 then they would make them go down [the temple] again in proper order. They would take them to the calpulco, where they would take the paper ornaments off of them; and they would put [the ones to be killed] inside
\n“Around two feet tall”: medio estado de alta.↩
“They would go . . . killing them”: daban vuelta por delante del taxón donde los habían de matar. The Spanish por delante (in front) gives rise to some confusion. The Nahuatl says niman ie ic qujoaliaoaloa in techcatl, which means that they went around the sacrificial stone once, not that they turned themselves around once in front of the stone before being led down the steps.↩
mjequjntin in mjquja, in quemã amo mjequjnti.
\nAuh in ie iuh muztla, in ie oallatvi Izcalli: in tlaaltilti, onxalaqui, qujmonxalaquja in vmpa tzommolco: in cioa muchi qujtquj, in jxqujch incioatlatquj: yoan in oqujchtin, muchi qujtquj in jxqujch intlatlatquj (in juh omjto cecnj): auh in jmamatlatquj, muchi qujmjtqujlia: quauhtzontapaioltica ieietiuh.
\nAuh in oqujmonaxitiq̅, njman ie ic qujnchichioa, techichioalo, qujmonaaquja in jxqujch imamatlatquj. Auh in ontecencaoaloc: auh injc muchichioa, ivin muchichioa Ixcoçauhquj: auh in cioa, çan ie no ivin muchichioa: njmã ie ic tleco in tzommolco, tecpantivi: auh in vmpanvetzito: njmã ie ic qujoaliaoaloa in techcatl: njmã ic no ceppa, oaltemo, no motecpãtivitze.
\nAuh in otemoco njmã ie ic qujnvica in calpulco, mec qujnxixitinja, vncan mocencaltilia, vel q͗n[pipia:]
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\nAnd upon the morrow, when already [the feast of] Izcalli had dawned, the ceremonially bathed ones entered the sand; they brought them to the sand there at Tzonmolco. The women carried everything, all their womanly array, and the men carried everything, all their array (as hath been told elsewhere). And they carried for them all their paper array; these various things went upon a wooden globe.
\nAnd when they had brought [the bathed ones] there, thereupon they arrayed them; they were arrayed. They put on them all their paper array. And when they were prepared and arrayed even as Ixcoçauhqui was arrayed, and the women were arrayed in the same manner, thereupon they climbed up to [the Temple of] Tzonmolco; they went in rows. And when they reached the top, thereupon they circled about the offering stone. Then once again they came down. They also came in rows.
\nAnd when they came descending, thereupon they took them to the calpulco. Then they took apart the various [vestments]; there [the victims] were gathered in a house;
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