traigo." Y dixo el dicho Quetzalcóatl: "No lo puedo beber, ni aun gustar un tantito." Y le dixo el dicho nigromántico: "Por fuerza lo habéis de beber o gustar un tantito, porque a ninguno de los vivos dexo de dar y hacer beber ese vino. A todos emborracho. ¡Ea, pues, bébalo!"
\nY el dicho Quetzalcóatl tomó el vino y lo bebió con una caña. Y en bebiéndolo se emborrachó y dormióse en el camino, y comenzó a roncar. Y cuando despertó, mirando a una parte y a otra, sacudía los cabellos con la mano, y entonces fue llamado el dicho lugar Cochtoca.
\nI am bringing for you.” And this Quetzalcoatl said, “I cannot drink it or even taste a little bit of it.” And this necromancer said to him, “You will drink it by force or taste [at least] a little bit, because I never stop offering that wine and making any of the living drink it. I make everyone drunk. Come on, then! Drink it!”
\nAnd this Quetzalcoatl took the wine and drank it with a straw. And after drinking it, he got drunk and fell asleep on the road, where he started to snore. And when he woke up, looking all around, he would mess his hair with his hand; and this place was then named Cochtoca.
\nSierra Nevada (snowy mountain range) is the sixteenth-century Spanish name for the peaks of Iztaccihuatl (white woman) and of the neighboring volcano, Popocatepetl (smoky mountain).↩
xoconj, y, yn vnctli in oniqualcujc\nqujto in Quetzalcoatl ca njman amo velitiz in niquiz, in manell achito noconpaloz,
\nnjman oc ceppa quilhui in tlacateculotl, camono velitiz, in macamo tiquiz, in maca titlapaloz ca aiac njcnocavia aiac njcquixtia in macamo njcmaca yn vctli, in njctlaoantia, in niquivintia, auh injn tlaoque tlacuele, tla xoconi,
\nin Quetzalcoatl njman ic conjc, in vctli piaztica.
\nauh in oconjc cochvetz in otlica, quaqualacatoc in cochi, veca caquizti, injc hicotoca, auh in ooaliçac, njman ie ic avic tlachia, mohotta, moquapepetla, niman jc vncan tlatocaioti cochtocan.
\nDrink this, the pulque1 which I have taken hold of here.”
\nQuetzalcoatl said: “In no way can it be that I drink it, even though it be a little that I taste.”
\nThen once again the demon said to him: “Neither can it be that thou shouldst not drink it, that thou shouldst not taste it. No one do I except, no one do I release, whom I do not give pulque, make drunk, make besotted. But come, be of good cheer! Drink it!”
\nQuetzalcoatl then drank the pulque with a drinking tube.
\nAnd when he had drunk it, he quickly fell asleep in the road. He lay there rumbling as he slept, audible from afar as he snored.2 And when he awoke, thereupon he looked to one side and the other. He looked at himself. He arranged his hair. Then he named the place Cochtocan.
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