Al cuarto décimo mes llamaban quecholli. Hacían fiesta al dios llamado Mixcóatl, y en este mes hacían saetas y dardos para la guerra. Mataban a honra deste dios muchos esclavos.
\nCuando hacían las saetas, por espacio de cinco días todos se sangraban de las orejas, y la sangre que esprimían dellas untábanla por sus mesmas sienes. Decían que hacían penitencias para ir a cazar venados. Los que no se sangraban tomábanles las mantas en pena. Ningún hombre se echaba con su mujer en estos días, ni los viejos ni viejas bebían pulcre, porque hacían penitencia. Acabados los cuatro días en que hacían las saetas y dardos, hacían unas saetas chiquitas y atábanlas de cuatro en cuatro, con cada cuatro teas. Y así hecho un manojico de las cuatro teas y de las cuatro saetas, ofrecíanlas sobre los sepulcros de los muertos. Ponían también juntamente con las saetas y teas dos tamales. Estaba todo esto un día entero sobre la sepultura, y a la noche lo quemaban, y\nhacían otras muchas cerimonias por los defuntos en esta mesma fiesta.
\nA los diez días deste mes iban todos los mexicanos y tlatelulcanos a aquellos montes que llaman Zacatépec, y dicen que es su madre aquel monte. El día que llegaban hacían xacales o cabañas de heno, y hacían fuegos, y ninguna otra cosa hacían aquel día. Otro día, en amaneciendo, luego almorzaban todos y salían al campo, y hacían una ala grande, donde cercaban muchos animales, ciervos, conejos y otros animales, y\npoco a poco se iban juntando hasta acorralarlos todos. Entunce arremetían y cazaban cada cual lo que podía. Acabada la caza, mataban captivos y esclavos en el cu que llaman Tlamatzinco. Atábalos de pies y manos y llevábanlos por las gradas del cu arriba, como quien lleva un ciervo por los pies y por las manos a matar. Matábanlos con gran cerimonia. Al hombre y a la mujer que eran imagen del dios Mixcóatl y de su mujer matábanlos en otro cu que se llamaba Mixcoateupan. Otras muchas cerimonias, etcétera.
\n|Cuenta deste calendario | Cuenta del calendario romano
\n|----|----|\n|1 f |f 20\n|2 g |g 21\n|3 A |A 22\n|4 b |b 23\n|5 c |c 24\n|6 d |d 25\n|7 e |e 26\n|8 f |f 27\n|9 g |g 28\n|10 A |A 29\n|11 b |b 30\n|12 c |c 31\n|13 d |d 1 November habet dies XXX.
\n|14 e |e 2\n|15 f |f 3\n|16 g |g 4\n|17 A |A 5\n|18 b |b 6\n|19 c |c 7\n|20 d |d 8
They called the fourteenth month Quecholli. They would celebrate a festival to the god called Mixcoatl, and during this month, they would make arrows and darts for war. They would kill many slaves in honor of this god.
\nWhen making the arrows, everyone would draw blood from their ears for a period of five days, and they would smear their own temples with the blood that they extracted. They said that they were performing penance in order to go deer hunting. As a punishment, they would take away the capes of those who did not bleed themselves. During those days, no man would lie with his wife, nor would the older men or older women drink pulque, because they were performing penance. At the end of the four days when they were making the arrows and darts, they would make some tiny arrows and tie them in bundles of four, and four torches along with each [bundle]. Having thus made a bundle of these four torches and four arrows, they would offer them upon the graves of the dead. They would also place two tamales together with the arrows and the torches. All of this would stay there on top of the grave for a whole day, and at night, they would burn it. And they would perform many other ceremonies for the dead during this same festival. On the tenth day of this month, all the Mexicans and Tlatelolcans would go to those hills that they call Zacatepec, and they say that this hill is their mother. On the day of their arrival, they would build jacales1—or cabins made of grass—make fires, and not do2 anything else on that day. The next day at dawn, everyone would have breakfast right away and then go out to the bush; and they would form a large flank to surround many animals: deer, rabbits, and other animals; and little by little, they kept moving closer together until they corralled them all. Then they would charge, and each one would hunt as many [animals] as he could. Once the hunt was over, they would kill captives and slaves in the cu that they call Tlamatzinco. They would bind them hand and foot, and take them up the steps of the cu, just like one who is taking a deer by the hind and forelegs to be slaughtered. They would kill them with great ceremony. In another cu that was called Mixcoateopan, they would kill the man and the woman who were the images of the god Mixcoatl and of his wife. Many other ceremonies, et cetera.
\n|Cuenta deste calendario | Cuenta del calendario romano
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\n|14 e |e 2\n|15 f |f 3\n|16 g |g 4\n|17 A |A 5\n|18 b |b 6\n|19 c |c 7\n|20 d |d 8
The fourteenth month they named Quecholli. They observed a feast to the god name Mixcoatl. And in this month they made arrows and darts for war. They slew many slaves in honor of this god.
\nWhen they made the arrows, for a space of five days all took blood from the ears, and [with] the blood which they pressed out of them they anointed their own temples. They said that they did penances in order to go to hunt deer. From those who did not bleed themselves, they took their capes as punishment. No man lay with his wife on those days; neither did the old men nor the old women drink wine; because they did penance.
\nAt the end of the four days during which they made the arrows and darts, they made a number of very small arrows, and bound them in four's with each [bundle of] four torches. And, a small bundle of the four torches and the four arrows being made, they offered them upon the graves of the dead. They placed also, along with the arrows and torches, two tamales. All this remained for a whole day upon the grave, and at night they burned it and performed many other ceremonies for the dead on this same feast.
\nOn the tenth day of this month, all the Mexicans and Tlatelulcans went to those mountains which they call Çacatepec. And they say that this mountain is their mother. On the day that they arrived, they made huts or cabins of grass, and they lit fires, and nothing else did they do that day.
\nNext day, at dawn, all forthwith broke fast and set out for the country and formed a great wing, wherewith they surrounded many animals—deer, rabbit, and other animals—and little by little they kept coming together until they rounded up all of them. Then they attacked and hunted, each one what he could.
\nThe hunt ended, they slew captives and slaves on a pyramid which they call Tlamatzinco. They bound them hand and foot, and carried them up the steps of the pyramid (as one carrieth a deer by the hind and forelegs to slaughter). They slew with great ceremony the man and the woman who were the likeness[es] of the god Mixcoatl and of his consort. They slew them on another pyramid which was called Mixcoateopan. Many other ceremonies [were performed]. Etc.
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