Síguese la manera del convite que agora después de ya cristianos hacen en los baptismos de sus hijos. De la misma manera convidan agora para sus baptismos que convidaban antiguamente, exceto que los señores y principales y mercaderes y hombres ricos cada uno según su manera hacía convite y convidaba mucha gente, y ponía oficiales y servidores para que sirviesen a los que venían convidados, para que a todos se les hiciese honra conforme a la calidad de sus personas, ansí en darles flores como en darles comida como en darles mantas y maxtlates conforme a la calidad de sus personas.
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\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":"b66bee80-2602-4051-aee9-52c718db6d9e","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":"#### Chapter thirty-seven: On how baptisms are performed today, which is almost the same as what they did in ancient times, and on how the lords, nobles, and merchants would hold their banquets—and how they offer them today—and on the rest of this sign’s houses\n\nHere follows the way that they celebrate the baptism feasts for their children now that they are Christians. They now invite [guests] to their baptisms the same way that they would have in ancient times, except that [in the past,] the lords, nobles, merchants, and other wealthy men would each prepare the feast in their own way. And they would invite a lot of people and appoint greeters[^47] and servers to serve their guests, so that everyone should receive the honors that were appropriate to the level of their rank, such as giving them flowers, serving them food, and giving them capes and _mastles_, according to the level of their rank. \n\n\n[^47]: “Greeters”: _oficiales_. The “greeters” (_techixque_) were tasked with appointing places to the guests according to rank and with serving the choicest products to the guests, such as tobacco tubes and flowers. The illustration on fol. 69v shows some of these “head waiters” dressed in fancy capes, so they were probably members of the upper classes (_pochteca_, _pipiltin_) or men closely associated with the noble household where the feast was taking place.","html":"Here follows the way that they celebrate the baptism feasts for their children now that they are Christians. They now invite [guests] to their baptisms the same way that they would have in ancient times, except that [in the past,] the lords, nobles, merchants, and other wealthy men would each prepare the feast in their own way. And they would invite a lot of people and appoint greeters1 and servers to serve their guests, so that everyone should receive the honors that were appropriate to the level of their rank, such as giving them flowers, serving them food, and giving them capes and mastles, according to the level of their rank.
\n“Greeters”: oficiales. The “greeters” (techixque) were tasked with appointing places to the guests according to rank and with serving the choicest products to the guests, such as tobacco tubes and flowers. The illustration on fol. 69v shows some of these “head waiters” dressed in fancy capes, so they were probably members of the upper classes (pochteca, pipiltin) or men closely associated with the noble household where the feast was taking place.↩
Auh in axcã ie ic tlamanj yn iquac aca ypampa tecoanotza ypiltzin, ie mitoa tlaquaatequia, tlaquatequiloia tetlatlaqualtilo, çan ie muchioaia, çan ie iuh coatioaia, çan ie iuh tecoanotzaloia yn oc cequj ypan cooaiotl, tetlacamachiliztli, tetemoliztli.
\nJc çan njcan tepiton onmonextia in tecoanotzaliztlatolli, tel in tlatoca, im pilpã, im pillovã, tecpilpan, yn anoço cana netlacamachoian, necuiltonoloia, tlatlamepã, im puchtla, in puchtecapã, toltecaiopan, cecentetl injc netquioaia, ynjc tlamanja, ynjc tlamanca, ynjc cooatioaia, netlacamachoia, necoachioaloia,
\nin cana vel moveychioa, vel môocça, tzîtzica, câcatzca, aonneaquilo, ahmiximati, yn tlacoanotzali, vel neque[queçalo,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"8e4d30d9-80ec-4719-8bb2-6359467c0098","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":"#### Thirty-seventh Chapter, in which is mentioned how the festivity was performed; and how the rulers and merchants of old provided banquets, even as to this day they have been doing.\n\nAnd the manner of doing nowadays: when one holdeth a banquet for the sake of his child, so it is said, they baptize; the head is washed; food is given. So was it done; just so were guests procured and invited; [as] in other banquets were the distribution and the seating according to rank.\n\nSo here a little is divulged of the invitation to banquet. But among the rulers, the princes and noblemen, those of illustrious lineage, or when somewhere riches and wealth had been procured, then there was avarice, among the merchants of Pochtlan, [or among the artisans, the craftsmen,][^1] the skilled workers, by each group separately there was bringing of goods according to custom; guests were procured, wealth was procured, and there were invitations.\n\nWhen somewhere there was great congregating, there was indeed trampling, shoving, and crowding. Entry was impossible. There was no recognition of the invited guests. Indeed, \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: In the *Real Palacio MS*, the words *anoço tlachichiuhcapan, toltecapan,* follow *puchtecapã*.","html":"And the manner of doing nowadays: when one holdeth a banquet for the sake of his child, so it is said, they baptize; the head is washed; food is given. So was it done; just so were guests procured and invited; [as] in other banquets were the distribution and the seating according to rank.
\nSo here a little is divulged of the invitation to banquet. But among the rulers, the princes and noblemen, those of illustrious lineage, or when somewhere riches and wealth had been procured, then there was avarice, among the merchants of Pochtlan, [or among the artisans, the craftsmen,]1 the skilled workers, by each group separately there was bringing of goods according to custom; guests were procured, wealth was procured, and there were invitations.
\nWhen somewhere there was great congregating, there was indeed trampling, shoving, and crowding. Entry was impossible. There was no recognition of the invited guests. Indeed,
\nIn the Real Palacio MS, the words anoço tlachichiuhcapan, toltecapan, follow puchtecapã.↩