Ignoramos también qué fueron los dones que le fueron dados a este niño cuando se baptizó. También ignoramos el signo bueno o malo en que nació y se baptizó. No podemos nosotros, siervos baxos, adivinar estas cosas. Nadie de los que nacen recibe su fortuna acá en el mundo. Cierta cosa es que nuestra fortuna con nosotros la trayemos cuando nacemos, y nos fue dada ante del principio del mundo. En conclusión, recebimos vuestro niño para que sirva en barrer y en los otros trabajos baxos en la casa de nuestro señor. Deseamos y rogamos que le sean dadas las riquezas de nuestro señor Dios. Deseamos que en esta casa se manifiesten y salgan a luz los dones y mercedes con que nuestro señor le adornó y hermoseó ante del principio del mundo. O por ventura nuestro señor le llevará para sí y le quitará la vida en su niñez. Por ventura no mereceremos que viva largo tiempo en este mundo. No sabemos cosa cierta qué os decir para que os podamos consolar. No os podemos decir con certidumbre esto será o es[to]
\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":"b33f95ee-d817-4ed6-9ac8-9d5488cb39cc","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":"We also do not know what gifts were granted to this boy when he was baptized. We also do not know the sign, good or bad, under which he was born and baptized. We, lowly servants, cannot foretell these things. Not one of those who are born receives their fortune here in this world. Indeed, we do bring our fortune along with us when we are born, and it was given to us before the beginning of the world. In conclusion, we receive your boy so that he may be useful, sweeping and performing other lowly tasks in our lord’s house. We wish and pray that the riches of our lord god be bestowed on him. We wish that the gifts and mercies with which our lord adorned and beautified him before the beginning of the world become evident and come to light in this house. Or perhaps our lord will claim him [your son] for himself and will take away his life during childhood. Perhaps we will not deserve for him to live for long in this world. Indeed, we do not know what to say to you to console you. We cannot tell you for certain whether this will happen","html":"We also do not know what gifts were granted to this boy when he was baptized. We also do not know the sign, good or bad, under which he was born and baptized. We, lowly servants, cannot foretell these things. Not one of those who are born receives their fortune here in this world. Indeed, we do bring our fortune along with us when we are born, and it was given to us before the beginning of the world. In conclusion, we receive your boy so that he may be useful, sweeping and performing other lowly tasks in our lord’s house. We wish and pray that the riches of our lord god be bestowed on him. We wish that the gifts and mercies with which our lord adorned and beautified him before the beginning of the world become evident and come to light in this house. Or perhaps our lord will claim him [your son] for himself and will take away his life during childhood. Perhaps we will not deserve for him to live for long in this world. Indeed, we do not know what to say to you to console you. We cannot tell you for certain whether this will happen
\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":"7759edfc-c45c-45ae-899f-0d2ee390bee6","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":"in iooaian, tle ic apanaloc, tleh quioalitqujtia, yn iquac motlacatili: auh tle itonal, auh iequene tle ypan malti tle yn imaceoal in piltzintli, tle yn jilhujl, \n\nha nelli mach, in tictonenpiquilia in timacehoalti, cuix mo haca qujn tlalticpac muchichioaz, ha njmã tiquitquitivitze, ha njman iooaianpa totlatquj oalietiuh. \nauh in y, manoço itlan onaquj yn vchpanoaztli in tlacuicuiliztli, in chico tlanaoac tlatequiliztli: auh in tletlaliliztli, manoço ixillan itozcatlan onmâmaiavi in totecujo, in iooalli yn ehecatl, \n\nma vncan panj tlanezian oalmotlali in quenami ynemac, injc mâpantivitz, in quenamj omacoc, injc ochichioaloc in iooajan aço nelle axcan vncan conmaniliz in totecujo, aço ixquitzin cõmopolhuiz, acaço tolhujl, acaço tomaceoal a cujx noço vel achitzin qujoallaliz in tonatiuh, cujx noço caxitiz in nepã Cujx noço vel contlaçaz, vel conaquiz in mavic in tonatiuh. \n\nauh yn axcã que[nami]","html":"in iooaian, tle ic apanaloc, tleh quioalitqujtia, yn iquac motlacatili: auh tle itonal, auh iequene tle ypan malti tle yn imaceoal in piltzintli, tle yn jilhujl,
\nha nelli mach, in tictonenpiquilia in timacehoalti, cuix mo haca qujn tlalticpac muchichioaz, ha njmã tiquitquitivitze, ha njman iooaianpa totlatquj oalietiuh.\nauh in y, manoço itlan onaquj yn vchpanoaztli in tlacuicuiliztli, in chico tlanaoac tlatequiliztli: auh in tletlaliliztli, manoço ixillan itozcatlan onmâmaiavi in totecujo, in iooalli yn ehecatl,
\nma vncan panj tlanezian oalmotlali in quenami ynemac, injc mâpantivitz, in quenamj omacoc, injc ochichioaloc in iooajan aço nelle axcan vncan conmaniliz in totecujo, aço ixquitzin cõmopolhuiz, acaço tolhujl, acaço tomaceoal a cujx noço vel achitzin qujoallaliz in tonatiuh, cujx noço caxitiz in nepã Cujx noço vel contlaçaz, vel conaquiz in mavic in tonatiuh.
\nauh yn axcã que[nami]
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\n“Verily, we common folk imagine it in vain. Will one perchance later be adorned on earth? Certainly we bring it with us. Certainly in the place of darkness it came forth as our property.
\n“But let him put his efforts to the sweeping, the gathering up [of rubbish],1 the arranging of things at one side or the other, and the laying of fires. May he remove secrets from the bosom, the lap of our lord, the shadow, the wind.
\n“May there be placed here above in the light whatever are his gifts with which he came bedight, whatever was given with which he was ornamented in the time of darkness. Perchance in truth now our lord will take him there; perchance he will destroy him utterly. Perchance it is our desert, perchance it is our merit. Perchance he will live to be a small child. Or perchance he will mature. Or perchance he will become an old man.2
\n“But now
\nOur interpretation receives some further support from Sahagún’s corresponding Spanish text: “… por ventura nr̃o señor, le lleuara para si, y le quitara la vida en su njñez: por uentura no merecemos, que viua largo tiempo en este mundo.”
\nyn vchpanoaztli in tlacuicuiliztli: this figure of speech is explained in Dibble and Anderson, *Book VI, p. 250 (Tlachpanaliztli, tlacujcujliztl, njcchioa).↩
The passage beginning: “Perchance he will live to be a small child…” is highly figurative. We interpret it with the aid of a series of adages concerning the sun in Addendum II to our revised edition of Book I of the Florentine Codex (Anderson and Dibble, Book I, p. 82): Achi quivallalia in tonatiuh (cf. vel achitzin qujoallaliz in tonatiuh); Nepantla nictlalia in tonatiuh (cf. *caxitiz ỹ nepa); Onvetztiuh ỹ tonatiuh. anoço noconaquiuhtiuh ỹ tonatiuh (cf. vel conaqui in mavic in tonatiuh; we read mavic as manic and equate the term with the sun or some aspect of it, on the basis of such phrasing as in totonametl manic to be found in Dibble and Anderson, Book VI, pp. 38, 171.↩