Del principio de los dioses no hay clara ni verdadera relación, ni aun se sabe nada; mas lo que dicen es que hay un lugar que se dice Teutihuacan, y allí, de tiempo inmemorial, todos los dioses se juntaron y se hablaron, diciendo: "¿Quién ha de gobernar y regir el mundo? ¿Quién ha de ser el Sol?" (Y esto ya es platicado en otra parte). Y al tiempo que nació y salió el Sol, todos los dioses murieron y ninguno quedó dellos, como adelante se dirá en el Libro Séptimo, en el capítulo segundo.
\nSegún lo que dixeron y supieron los naturales viejos del nacimiento y principio del diablo que se decía Huitzilopuchtli, al cual daban mucha honra y acatamiento los mexicanos, es que hay una sierra que se llama Coatépec, junto al pueblo de Tulla, y allí vivía una mujer que se llamaba Coatlicue, que fue madre de unos indios que se decían centzonhuitznáhuah, los cuales tenían una hermana que se
\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":"1b6306ae-8ea0-43d0-bdf5-0d8260e26608","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":"#### First chapter: On the beginning that the gods had\n\nThere is no clear or truthful account of the gods’ beginning, nor is anything known except that they say that there is a place known as Teotihuacan; and in that place, since time immemorial, all the gods gathered together and spoke among themselves, saying, “Who will govern and rule the world? Who will be the sun?” (And this is already told elsewhere.) And at the moment that the sun was born and came forth, all the gods died, and not one of them remained, as will be told later in the seventh book, second chapter.\n\n##### First paragraph: On the birth of Huitzilopochtli\n\nAccording to what the older natives said and understood about the birth and beginning of the devil who was called Huitzilopochtli, whom the Mexicans greatly honored and obeyed, there is a mountain called Coatepec, near the town of Tollan. And a woman called Coatlicue, who was the mother of some Indians who were called Centzonhuitznahuah, lived there; and they had a sister who was","html":"There is no clear or truthful account of the gods’ beginning, nor is anything known except that they say that there is a place known as Teotihuacan; and in that place, since time immemorial, all the gods gathered together and spoke among themselves, saying, “Who will govern and rule the world? Who will be the sun?” (And this is already told elsewhere.) And at the moment that the sun was born and came forth, all the gods died, and not one of them remained, as will be told later in the seventh book, second chapter.
\nAccording to what the older natives said and understood about the birth and beginning of the devil who was called Huitzilopochtli, whom the Mexicans greatly honored and obeyed, there is a mountain called Coatepec, near the town of Tollan. And a woman called Coatlicue, who was the mother of some Indians who were called Centzonhuitznahuah, lived there; and they had a sister who was
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"4f668ad5-9b9f-44b3-a133-f99b862a85d6","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"# Nican peoa injc ey amostli. \n\n#### Injc ce capitulo, vncan mjtoa in quenjn otzintique in teteuh. \n\nIn quenjn tzintique in teteuh in canpa tzintique, amo vel macho, ca ie iehoatl in panj ca in vncan teutioacan, qujtoa in canjn yn iqujn, in oc iovaian vncan mocentlalique, in ixqujchtin teteu, yoan mononotzque, in aqujn tlatlquiz, in aqujn tlamamaz, in aqujn, tonatiuh iez, (Ynjn ca ie omjto cececnj.) auh in iquac, in omomanaco tonatiuh, niman muchintin vncan mjcque, inca muzcalti in tonatiuh: aiac mocauh in macamo mjc (in oiuh mjto). auh in juh qujmatia vevetque. \n\n##### Jn vitzilopuchtli, in cenca qujmaviztiliaia in Mexica. \n\nYvin in qujmatia, in itzintiliz, in ipeoaliz, ca in coatepec, yvjcpa in tullan, cemilhujtl quitztica, vmpa nenca cihoatl, itoca Coatl icue: innan centzonuitznaoa. auh inveltiuh, itoca, Coiolxauh. \n\nauh in iehoatl coatl icue, vncan tlamaceoaia, tlachpanaia, quimocuitlaviaia, in tlachpanalli.","html":"In quenjn tzintique in teteuh in canpa tzintique, amo vel macho, ca ie iehoatl in panj ca in vncan teutioacan, qujtoa in canjn yn iqujn, in oc iovaian vncan mocentlalique, in ixqujchtin teteu, yoan mononotzque, in aqujn tlatlquiz, in aqujn tlamamaz, in aqujn, tonatiuh iez, (Ynjn ca ie omjto cececnj.) auh in iquac, in omomanaco tonatiuh, niman muchintin vncan mjcque, inca muzcalti in tonatiuh: aiac mocauh in macamo mjc (in oiuh mjto). auh in juh qujmatia vevetque.
\nYvin in qujmatia, in itzintiliz, in ipeoaliz, ca in coatepec, yvjcpa in tullan, cemilhujtl quitztica, vmpa nenca cihoatl, itoca Coatl icue: innan centzonuitznaoa. auh inveltiuh, itoca, Coiolxauh.
\nauh in iehoatl coatl icue, vncan tlamaceoaia, tlachpanaia, quimocuitlaviaia, in tlachpanalli.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"56c63dbb-497d-41b0-b2bb-d53c08983049","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":"# Here Beginneth the Third Book\n\n#### First Chapter, in which it is told how the gods had their beginning.\n\nHow the gods had their beginning, where they had their beginning, cannot be known. This is plain: that there in Teotihuacan, they say, is the place; the time was when there still was darkness. There all the gods assembled and consulted among themselves who would bear upon his back the burden of rule,[^1] who would be the sun. (This hath already been told in various places.) But when the sun came to appear, then all [the gods] died there.[^2] Through them the sun was made to revive. None remained who did not die (as hath been told). And thus the ancient ones thought it.\n\n##### To Uitzilopochtli the Mexicans paid great honor.\n\nThus did they believe of his beginning, his origin. At Coatepec, near Tula, there dwelt one day, there lived a woman named Coatl icue,[^3] mother of the Centzonuitznaua. And their elder sister was named Coyolxauhqui.\n\nAnd this Coatl icue used to perform penances there; she used to sweep; she used to take care of the sweeping.\n\n\n\n[^1]: *tlatlquiz*: read *tlatquiz*; cf. corresponding passage in the *Real Palacio Ms*. Cf. *itqui, niqu*. in Alonso de Molina, *Vocabulario de la lengua mexicana*, ed. Julio Platzmann (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1880), fol. 43*r*.\n\n\n[^2]: In simple terms, the most usual versions are told in Alfonso Caso, *The Aztecs, People of the Sun* (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), pp. 12–15, 17–20.\n\n\n[^3]: Caso, *ibid.*, p. 53, states: “We have seen that she gave miraculous birth to Huitzilopochtli at the very moment when the stars, led by the moon, doubting the miracle of divine conception, attempted to kill her. We have also seen that the sun, Huitzilopochtli, sprang forth from her womb armed with a ray of light and killed the moon and the stars.”","html":"How the gods had their beginning, where they had their beginning, cannot be known. This is plain: that there in Teotihuacan, they say, is the place; the time was when there still was darkness. There all the gods assembled and consulted among themselves who would bear upon his back the burden of rule,1 who would be the sun. (This hath already been told in various places.) But when the sun came to appear, then all [the gods] died there.2 Through them the sun was made to revive. None remained who did not die (as hath been told). And thus the ancient ones thought it.
\nThus did they believe of his beginning, his origin. At Coatepec, near Tula, there dwelt one day, there lived a woman named Coatl icue,3 mother of the Centzonuitznaua. And their elder sister was named Coyolxauhqui.
\nAnd this Coatl icue used to perform penances there; she used to sweep; she used to take care of the sweeping.
\ntlatlquiz: read tlatquiz; cf. corresponding passage in the Real Palacio Ms. Cf. itqui, niqu. in Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario de la lengua mexicana, ed. Julio Platzmann (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1880), fol. 43r.↩
In simple terms, the most usual versions are told in Alfonso Caso, The Aztecs, People of the Sun (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), pp. 12–15, 17–20.↩
Caso, ibid., p. 53, states: “We have seen that she gave miraculous birth to Huitzilopochtli at the very moment when the stars, led by the moon, doubting the miracle of divine conception, attempted to kill her. We have also seen that the sun, Huitzilopochtli, sprang forth from her womb armed with a ray of light and killed the moon and the stars.”↩