[sen]tado sobre ella. Y por esto avisaban a sus hijas que se guardasen de olerla o de sentarse sobre ella o de pasar sobre ella.
\nDecían los viejos supersticiosos que las flores que se componen de muchas flores, con que bailan y que dan a sus convidados, que a nadie le es lícito oler el medio della, porque el medio della está reservado para Tezcatlipuca, y que los hombres solamente pueden oler las orillas.
\nDecían también los supersticiosos antiguos, y algunos aún agora lo usan, que el maíz ante que lo echen en la olla para cocerse han de resollar sobre ello, como dándole ánimo para que no tema la cochura. También decían que cuando estaba derramado algún maíz por el suelo, el que lo vía era obligado a cogerlo, y el que no lo cogía hacía injuria al maíz, y el maíz se quexaba dél del[ante]
\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":"69df3ca5-c76b-43ef-b09e-2e9d36707c14","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":"or sat down on it. And therefore, they would warn their daughters to take care not to smell it or sit on it or step on it.\n\n#### Third chapter: On flowers already arranged\n\nThe older, superstitious people said that no one is allowed to smell the center of [a bouquet] arranged with many flowers, with which they dance and which they offer to their guests, because the center is reserved for Tezcatlipoca; and men can only smell its edges.\n\n#### Fourth chapter: On maize kernels\n\nThe older, superstitious people also said—and some are practicing this even now—that before putting the maize in the pot to be cooked, one must blow on it, as if giving it courage so that it will not be afraid of being cooked. They also said that whenever some maize was spilled on the floor, whoever saw it was obliged to pick it up; and whoever would not pick it up would be insulting the maize, so that the maize would complain about him","html":"or sat down on it. And therefore, they would warn their daughters to take care not to smell it or sit on it or step on it.
\nThe older, superstitious people said that no one is allowed to smell the center of [a bouquet] arranged with many flowers, with which they dance and which they offer to their guests, because the center is reserved for Tezcatlipoca; and men can only smell its edges.
\nThe older, superstitious people also said—and some are practicing this even now—that before putting the maize in the pot to be cooked, one must blow on it, as if giving it courage so that it will not be afraid of being cooked. They also said that whenever some maize was spilled on the floor, whoever saw it was obliged to pick it up; and whoever would not pick it up would be insulting the maize, so that the maize would complain about him
\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":"f3a0d135-49c2-4a4e-bb94-1c48d85342cd","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":"[quj]mauaya in jmjchpuchoan, qujmjlhujaya: macamo xiqujnecujcan, ma ypan ancholoti injn xuchitl, amotech momanaz. \n\n#### Injc ey capitulo, itechpa tlatoa, in suchitl yn ye tlatlalilli. \n\nSuchitl ie tlatlalilli: ca mjiec tlamantli injc motocaiotia in suchitl tlatlalilli, chimalsuchitl, quateçonsuchitl, quachic, vevetl, moiauac: In jtechpa yn suchitl, no motlapololtiaya in vevetque, qujtoaia: ca amo tonemac in tlanepantla, in jnepantla tiqujnecujzque ca çan iceltzin vel vncan motlanecujltia in tloque naoaque, in titlacaoan: çanijo tonemac, in vncan titlanecujzque in jtenco. \n\n#### Injc navi capitulo, itechpa tlatoa in tlaulli. \n\nIn jtechpa in tlaulli: mjiec tlamantli oc noma, ic motlapololtia in cioa. Injc centlamantli: in jquac qujcuxitia, in anoço qujnexquetza: izcatquj in jnnetlapololtiliz, in jquac ie contemazque in nexcomjc: oc achtopa conahaiovia, qujlmach ic amo momauhtiz, ic amo motonalmauhtiz: qujlmach ic contonallalilia. \n\nInjc vntlamantli, injc muztlacavia: intla oqujttaque, in anoço oypan qujçato","html":"[quj]mauaya in jmjchpuchoan, qujmjlhujaya: macamo xiqujnecujcan, ma ypan ancholoti injn xuchitl, amotech momanaz.
\nSuchitl ie tlatlalilli: ca mjiec tlamantli injc motocaiotia in suchitl tlatlalilli, chimalsuchitl, quateçonsuchitl, quachic, vevetl, moiauac: In jtechpa yn suchitl, no motlapololtiaya in vevetque, qujtoaia: ca amo tonemac in tlanepantla, in jnepantla tiqujnecujzque ca çan iceltzin vel vncan motlanecujltia in tloque naoaque, in titlacaoan: çanijo tonemac, in vncan titlanecujzque in jtenco.
\nIn jtechpa in tlaulli: mjiec tlamantli oc noma, ic motlapololtia in cioa. Injc centlamantli: in jquac qujcuxitia, in anoço qujnexquetza: izcatquj in jnnetlapololtiliz, in jquac ie contemazque in nexcomjc: oc achtopa conahaiovia, qujlmach ic amo momauhtiz, ic amo motonalmauhtiz: qujlmach ic contonallalilia.
\nInjc vntlamantli, injc muztlacavia: intla oqujttaque, in anoço oypan qujçato
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"8f0bef04-e25e-4207-9c6e-d99068113506","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":"scolded their daughters; they said to them: “Do not smell it; do not jump over this flower; [the sickness] will be settled upon you.”\n\n#### Third Chapter, which telleth of flowers artificially arranged.[^3]\n\nFlowers arranged with artifice: there were many kinds thus named, flowers artificially arranged—flower shields; flowers for clipped heads, or for shorn ones, or drums; or spreading [flowers]. As to these flowers the ancients were also deluded. They said: “It is not our right to smell in the midst—the center—of them; he alone, he who pervadeth all, Titlacauan, may smell that place. Our right is only to smell them there at the edges.”\n\n#### Fourth Chapter, which telleth of dried grains of maize.\n\nAs to dried grains of maize, in many ways were the women none the less deluded. First, when they cooked it or set it in ashes—behold their folly: when they would place it in the olla with ashes, first of all they breathed upon it. It was held that in this way it would not take fright; thus it would not fear the heat. It was said that thus they mitigated the heat.\n\nSecond, they deceived themselves in this way: if they saw or came upon \n\n\n\n\n[^3]: *Suchitl yn ye tlatlalilli*. Corresponding Spanish text: *”las flores, que se componen de muchas flores.”*","html":"scolded their daughters; they said to them: “Do not smell it; do not jump over this flower; [the sickness] will be settled upon you.”
\nFlowers arranged with artifice: there were many kinds thus named, flowers artificially arranged—flower shields; flowers for clipped heads, or for shorn ones, or drums; or spreading [flowers]. As to these flowers the ancients were also deluded. They said: “It is not our right to smell in the midst—the center—of them; he alone, he who pervadeth all, Titlacauan, may smell that place. Our right is only to smell them there at the edges.”
\nAs to dried grains of maize, in many ways were the women none the less deluded. First, when they cooked it or set it in ashes—behold their folly: when they would place it in the olla with ashes, first of all they breathed upon it. It was held that in this way it would not take fright; thus it would not fear the heat. It was said that thus they mitigated the heat.
\nSecond, they deceived themselves in this way: if they saw or came upon
\nSuchitl yn ye tlatlalilli. Corresponding Spanish text: ”las flores, que se componen de muchas flores.”↩