adelante. Ninguno se determinaba en lo que podía acontecer, porque, como arriba se dixo, este agüero es indiferente a bien y a mal.
\nCuando alguno de noche oía golpes como de quien corta leña de noche, tomaba mal agüero. A éste llamaban yohualtepuztli. Quiere decir "hacha nocturna".
\nPor la mayor parte este sonido se oía al primer sueño de la noche, cuando todos duermen profundamente y ningún ruido de gente suena. Oían este sonido los que de noche iban a ofrecer cañas y ramos de pino, los cuales eran ministros del templo, que se llamaban tlamacazque. Éstos tenían por costumbre de hacer este exercicio o penitencia de noche, que es lo profundo de la noche. Iban a hacer estas ofrendas a las costumbres1
\nDebe decir "cumbres".↩
later on. Nobody could predict what could happen because, as was mentioned above, this omen is indifferent to good or bad.
\nWhen someone heard knocks at night, like those made by someone who is cutting wood, he would take this as a bad omen. This [omen] was called yohualtepuztli. It means “night ax.”
\nFor the most part, this sound was heard during the night’s first slumber, when everyone is fast asleep and no sounds are made by people. Those who would go [out] at night to make offerings of reeds and pine branches would hear this sound. These were the temple priests called tlamacazqueh, who had the habit of performing this nocturnal exercise or penance in the dead of night. They would go out to make these offerings on the summits1
\n“Summits”: The scribe erroneously wrote costumbres (habits, customs) here instead of cumbres (summits).↩
[qujtozne]quj, intetzauh omuchiuh: injc omotetzaujque.
\nIe omjto, tel aiac qujmati, in aço vel neltiz: in acanoçomo, ca itlatol itech mocaquj: injc ome vitz qujtoa, qualli ioan amo qualli.
\nNo ioan, tetzaujtl catca, netetzaujloia, tetzammachoia: in jtoca ioaltepuztli. Iquac caqujztia, in ouellallimjctimotecac: in aocac naoati.
\nIn ontlamaceoato, in onacxoiatlalito tlamacazque: in jntlamaceoaian tepeticpac, in çaço campa ie, onuja, injc mocaquja, injc caquiztia, iuhqujn aca, tlaxeloa, quauhxeloa: cenca veca caqujzti, cenca temamauhti, teiolmjcti, teçotlauh. Inin, ioaltepuztli, iuh mjtoa, qujlmach
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\nIt hath already been said, nevertheless, that no one knew whether, indeed, it would be verified, or would not be so. For its words were understood, since it spoke in two [ways], to be good and evil.
\nLikewise there was an omen which was taken as and considered portentous; its name was the night axe. When it made itself heard, it was well into the night,1 when none spoke aloud.
\nWhen the priests went forth to do penances and to lay down fir branches at their places of doing penance on mountain tops, wheresoever they all went, then it was heard that it resounded like someone chopping and splitting wood. It rang out for a great distance; much did it frighten the people. It made them faint and swoon with fear. This night axe, so we are told—it was said
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”al primer sueño de la noche:* quando todos duermen profundamente.”*↩