Los mancebos que recibían y comían el cuerpo del dicho Huitzilopuchtli obligábanse a servir un año, y cada noche encendían y gastaban mucha cantidad de leña, que eran más de dos mil palos y teas, las cuales les costaban diez mantas grandes que se llamaban cuachtli, de que recibían gran agravio y molestia. Cada uno era obligado a pagar una manta grande que se llama cuachtli y cinco mantillas pequeñas que se llaman tecuachtli y un cesto de maíz de cient mazorcas de maíz. Y los que no podían pagar, que se sentían ser muy agraviados del dicho tributo, se ausentaban, y algunos determinábanse a morir en la guerra en poder de los enemigos. Y como los dichos mancebos sabían que ya acababan y cumplían el servicio y penitencia a que estaban obligados entre ellos, otra vez recogían otro tributo. Cada uno pagaba seis mantillas pequeñas que se llaman tecuachtli, con que compraban teas y leña y todo lo que era necesario para lavar al dicho Huitzilopuchtli al fin del año. Y el
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\nyoan cecen quachtli, yoan macuiltetl tequachtli in qujtlaliaia cecen tlacatl, njman ie tlaolli cen tzincopincatontli, yoan mamacuilpoalli cintli, in cecen tlacatl, quinextiaia.\nJehoatl y, in cēca tlatequjpachoaia, tlaellelaxitiaia, tlatolinjaia, auh in cequjntin ic choloaia, ic canapa itztivia. Yoan miequjntin in õmotlacomaiavia iaoc õmomjccatlaçaia, inca õmomotlaia in jniaoan,
\nauh in iquac in ie quicaoazque, in intequiuh, in ie ic tlatzonquixtizque, in ie ic ce
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"31b69274-18fc-4733-b56f-09ca018b0820","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":"##### Third paragraph, in which are related the penances which those who ate the body of Uitzilopochtli performed.\n\nAnd very great did their distress become. And for a full year the youths fasted. At this time they burned many [pieces of] wood, each night two thousand eight hundred in his honor. On the next day the same, the next day the same. And pine sticks. With ten large cotton capes [they bought] what burned each night. From this there was much affliction.\n\nAnd each man set forth, each one, a large cotton cape and five small capes, and then of dried grains of corn one small basket, and each man produced, each one, one hundred ears of dried maize.\n\nFrom this there was much distress, there was anguish, there was affliction. And some therefore fled; they went elsewhere. And many withdrew themselves as enslaved, cast themselves to their deaths in war,[^26] threw themselves against their foes.\n\nAnd when already they were to give up their office, when already they were to end it, when already [they had served] one \n\n\n\n\n[^26]: Seler, *Einige Kapitel*, p. 260, translates *õmotlacomaviaia* as “*warfen sich … als Sklaven hin*.” Cf. *tlacotli*, slave.","html":"And very great did their distress become. And for a full year the youths fasted. At this time they burned many [pieces of] wood, each night two thousand eight hundred in his honor. On the next day the same, the next day the same. And pine sticks. With ten large cotton capes [they bought] what burned each night. From this there was much affliction.
\nAnd each man set forth, each one, a large cotton cape and five small capes, and then of dried grains of corn one small basket, and each man produced, each one, one hundred ears of dried maize.
\nFrom this there was much distress, there was anguish, there was affliction. And some therefore fled; they went elsewhere. And many withdrew themselves as enslaved, cast themselves to their deaths in war,1 threw themselves against their foes.
\nAnd when already they were to give up their office, when already they were to end it, when already [they had served] one
\nSeler, Einige Kapitel, p. 260, translates õmotlacomaviaia as “warfen sich … als Sklaven hin.” Cf. tlacotli, slave.↩