allá en el Infierno? Ante desto no puedo ir." Decían que por esto le injuriaban desta manera, para escaparse del mal agüero que pronosticaba y para no ser obligados a cumplir su llamamiento.
\nDeste animalejo que se llama comadreja o mostolilla se espantaban y tomaban mal agüero cuando la vían entrar en su casa o atravesar por delante de sí cuando iban por el camino o por la calle. Y concebían en su corazón mala sospecha de que les había de venir algún mal, o que si algún viaje tomase no le había de suceder bien, que había de caer en manos de ladrones o le habían de matar, o que le habían de levantar algún testimonio. Y por esto, ordinariamente los que encontraban con este animalejo les temblaban las carnes de miedo y se estremecían, y se les espeluzaban los cabellos. Algunos se ponían yertos o pasmados por tener entendido que algún mal les había de acontecer.
\nLa forma deste animal acá en esta tierra es que son como los de España,
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\nThey were frightened by this vermin3 called “weasel” or “little mustela,” taking it as a bad omen when they would see it enter their house or cross in front of them while they were walking along the road or the street. And they would harbor in their hearts a bad suspicion that something bad would happen to them or, if someone was about to go on a trip, that this would not turn out well for him, as he would fall into the hands of thieves or be killed or be the target of some accusation. And this is why those who ordinarily encountered this vermin would tremble in fear and shudder, and their hair would stand on end. Some of them would become rigid or stunned because they had understood that something bad would happen to them.
\nHere in this land, the shape of this animal is just like those in Spain,
\nThe sense of this sentence is obscure. It may allude to an ordeal during the journey to the land of the dead, the Mictlan. See García Garagarza, “Tecolotl,” 468.↩
“Little mustela”: mostolilla. The Latin word for weasel is mustela; hence mostolilla is rendered here as “little mustela.”↩
“Vermin”: animalejo. This diminutive word animalejo has a pejorative sense, as “vermin.” The term is used throughout chap. 9 below.↩
caoa: ma xitlamatpolotiuh, cujlonpul: cuix oticcoionj in tzontli ic natlitiaz: ca iamo cuel in njiaz.
\nInjc iuh conaoa in, qujlmach iuhqujn ic onepatilo, ic queleltia, ic qujlochtia, ic qujiacatzacuilia, in itenotzaliz: injc amo inpan neltiz, ic qujntzatzilia.
\nNo ioan netetzaujloia in coçamatl, anoço coçatli: in jquac aca ichan calaquja: anoço vtlica, cana qujnamjquj: qujiacaujltequj, ixpan tlaxtlapaloa:
\nqujtoaia, aço ie itla conmonamjctiz tetolinj: aço ie itla ipan oncholoz, amo vel iaz in campa iaznequj: aço acame inmac vetzitiuh, qujmjctizque: anoço ie tlatolli, itech oneoaz: aço ie aca, tlatolli coneoaltiz: contlatollaqujliz, contlatolchichiujliz.
\nAuh in jquac itto, netlacmauhtilo: necujtiuecho, cecepoca, cuecueioca, in tenacaio, ticecepoca, ticuecueioca, tiquacecepoca, titocujtivetzi: tetequjpachoa, teiollitlacoa.
\nAuh in juhquj, ic muchichiuh: yxtecuj[cujlpul]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"750024dc-5815-4534-b460-a60405ee9b15","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":"chid it: “Vanish quietly, O sodomite! Hast thou perchance made a hole in the hair, with which I may drink [in the land of the dead]?[^5] For not until then shall I go!”\n\nWhen thus they had chidden it, it was thought that thus all were made secure. Thus they hindered, reversed, and headed off its warning, so that what he screeched at them would not befall them.\n\n\n#### Sixth Chapter, in which is told what the omen was, so that they took it as a portent, when someone saw a weasel which crossed in front of him.\n\nLikewise all regarded the weasel[^1] as an omen when it entered someone’s house or else he came upon it on the road and it crossed over in front of him and appeared before him.\n\nThey said that now perhaps he would meet an affliction; perchance something would spring upon him. He would not arrive where he planned to go. Perhaps he would fall into the hands of some men who would slay him; or now words would be raised against him. Maybe now someone would make a declaration about him, adding lies and inventing things about him.[^2]\n\nAnd when it was seen, all shuddered with fright, were terror-struck, stunned; their flesh crept.[^3]—We became numbed and quivered; our hair stood on end; we panicked. It brought one woe and affliction.\n\nAnd thus, in this manner, was it marked: \n\n\n\n\n[^5]: *Ibid*.:* “con que tengo de beuer alla en el infierno.”*\n\n\n[^1]: *Coçamatl* and *coçatli* are interchangeable terms; see Molina, *op. cit., cuçatli*.\n\n\n[^2]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”le aujan de leuantar algũ testimonio.”*\n\n\n[^3]: *Ibid*.:* “se les espeluzauan los cabellos, algunos se ponjan jertos, o pasmados.”*","html":"chid it: “Vanish quietly, O sodomite! Hast thou perchance made a hole in the hair, with which I may drink [in the land of the dead]?1 For not until then shall I go!”
\nWhen thus they had chidden it, it was thought that thus all were made secure. Thus they hindered, reversed, and headed off its warning, so that what he screeched at them would not befall them.
\nLikewise all regarded the weasel2 as an omen when it entered someone’s house or else he came upon it on the road and it crossed over in front of him and appeared before him.
\nThey said that now perhaps he would meet an affliction; perchance something would spring upon him. He would not arrive where he planned to go. Perhaps he would fall into the hands of some men who would slay him; or now words would be raised against him. Maybe now someone would make a declaration about him, adding lies and inventing things about him.3
\nAnd when it was seen, all shuddered with fright, were terror-struck, stunned; their flesh crept.4—We became numbed and quivered; our hair stood on end; we panicked. It brought one woe and affliction.
\nAnd thus, in this manner, was it marked:
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