el corazón y asía dél, como que se le arrencaba tirando. Estando en esto, demandaba a la fantasma que le hiciese alguna merced, o le pedía alguna riqueza, o le pedía esfuerzo o valentía para captivar en la guerra a muchos y a algunos dábalos esto que pedían, y a otros no les daba lo que pedían, sino el contrario, que era pobreza y miseria y malaventura. Y ansí decían que en su mano estaba el Tezcatlipuca dar cualquiera cosa que quisiese, adversa o próspera. Y la fantasma, respondiendo a la demanda, decía desta manera: "Gentil hombre, valiente hombre, amigo mío, fulano, dexáme. ¿Qué me quieres? Que yo te daré lo que quisieres." Y la persona a quien la fantasma le había aparecido, decíala: "No te dexaré, que ya te he cazado." Y la fantasma dábale una punta o espina de maguey, diciéndole: "Cataquí esta espina. Déxame." Y el que tenía a la fantasma asida por el corazón, si era valiente y esforzado, no se contentaba con una espina, y hasta que le daba tres o cuatro espinas no la dexaba.
\nEstas espinas eran señal
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\nThese thorns were a sign
\n“Therefore . . . [things]”: “Y ansí decían que en su mano estaba el Tezcatlipoca dar cualquier cosa que quisiese, adversa o próspera.”↩
[y]n aqujn oqujmottiti: in aço tlamacazquj, in anoço çan mihiujntia in jaotlaueliloc: in jquac in ouel cacic, in ouel qujttac, njman ie qujmottilia in jiollo: qujcujtiuetzi, qujtlalochana, qujmotzoltzitzquja, qujcotonilia: ic qujtlaitlanjlia, in tlein qujmacaz, in tlen qujnemactiz, in tlein qujmaceoaltiz: aço necujltonolli, aço tlamaliztli, aço oqujchiotl: anoço netolinjliztli, aço victli, aço mecapalli: iuh mjtoa, ca much ie qujtemaceoaltiaia, itenamac muchioaia.
\nAuh intla ie qujnotza, qujluja: Tocnjuhtze, vitzitle, iaotle: tle tinechiluja, tle tinechnequjlia, xinechcaoa: njmjtzmacaz in tlein ticnequj: vel njman ic tenotzaia, ic qujtlacatocaiotiaia, in aqujn tlein itoca, in jpiltoca.
\nAuh qujluja in maceoalli, in oqujmottiti: amo njmjtzcaoaz, ca onjmjtzan.\nIc vncan qujluja, izca ce vitztli: njmjtzmaca, xinechcaoa:\namo qujcelia, amo qujuelitta, in jollochicaoac: qujnjquac quicaoa, in[tla]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"44601bcd-9171-4202-9a8d-79b7f848387e","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":"to whom it appeared, whether priest or bold one, or reckless warrior, when he had succeeded in reaching and seeing it, then saw his heart. He seized it; he clutched it and took it tightly in his fist; he tore it out. So he demanded what it would give, grant, or award him—perhaps riches, perhaps the taking of captives, perhaps valor; or poverty—perhaps the hoe or the tump line. So was it said that all which it thus awarded him became his gift.[^4]\n\nAnd if it spoke to him, it said: “O our friend, O humming bird, O warrior. What dost thou say to me? What wilt thou have of me? Unhand me, and I shall give thee what thou wishest.” At once did it then address him, calling him by his name as a man—whatever was his name—and his name as a nobleman.\n\nAnd the vassal to whom it had appeared said to it: “I shall not let thee go, for I have taken thee.”\n\nThen it said to him: “Behold one thorn; I give it to thee. Leave me alone.”\n\nThe brave-hearted one liked this not;[^5] he thought it not well. At last he left it \n\n\n\n\n[^4]: “Memoriales en 3 columnas” has *itenemac*.\n\n\n[^5]: *Qujcelia*: either *qu-icelia* or *qui-celia* may be read. Cf. Molina, *op. cit.*.","html":"to whom it appeared, whether priest or bold one, or reckless warrior, when he had succeeded in reaching and seeing it, then saw his heart. He seized it; he clutched it and took it tightly in his fist; he tore it out. So he demanded what it would give, grant, or award him—perhaps riches, perhaps the taking of captives, perhaps valor; or poverty—perhaps the hoe or the tump line. So was it said that all which it thus awarded him became his gift.1
\nAnd if it spoke to him, it said: “O our friend, O humming bird, O warrior. What dost thou say to me? What wilt thou have of me? Unhand me, and I shall give thee what thou wishest.” At once did it then address him, calling him by his name as a man—whatever was his name—and his name as a nobleman.
\nAnd the vassal to whom it had appeared said to it: “I shall not let thee go, for I have taken thee.”
\nThen it said to him: “Behold one thorn; I give it to thee. Leave me alone.”
\nThe brave-hearted one liked this not;2 he thought it not well. At last he left it
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