preguntaban a los adivinos que señalasen un día bien afortunado para el negocio, y los adivinos les señalaban uno de los días prósperos para el negocio. Decían que cuando reinaba el carácter que se llama ácatl, o el otro que se llama ozomatli, o el otro que se llama cipactli, o el otro que se llama cuauhtli, o el otro que se llama calli, cualquier déstos era bien acondicionado para este negocio.
\nDespués desto, luego comenzaban aparejar las cosas necesarias para el día de la boda, que se había de hacer en algún signo de los arriba dichos. Aparejábanse las ollas para cocer el maíz y el cacao mulido, que llaman cacahuapinolli, las flores que eran menester, las cañas de humo que se llaman yetlalli, y los platos que se llaman molcáxitl, y los vasos que se llaman zoquitecómatl, y los chiquihuites. Comenzaban a moler el maíz y ponerlo en los apaztles o librillos. Luego hacían tamales toda la noche y todol día, por espacio de dos o tres días. No durmían de noche, sino muy poco, trabajando en lo arriba dicho.
\nEl día antes de la boda convidaban primero la gente honrada y noble, y después a la otra gente, como eran
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\nAfter this, they would immediately start preparing the things that were necessary for the wedding day, which would have to be celebrated under one of the signs mentioned above. They would prepare the pots for cooking ground maize and cacao [for the dish] that they call cacahuapinolli, the flowers that were needed, the smoking tubes called iyetlalli, the dishes called molcaxitl, the vases called zoquitecomatl, and chiquihuites.1 They would start grinding the maize and putting it in the apaztles, or pottery cups. Then they would make tamales all day and all night long, for a period of two or three days. They would not sleep at night—if they did, very little—while working on the things mentioned above.
\nThe day before the wedding, they would first invite the honorable and noble people, and afterward the rest of the people, such as
\nchiquihuites: plural Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word chiquihuitl (basket).↩
qualli tonalli: iehoatl in acatl, oçumatli, cipactli, quauhtli, calli. Niman ie ic nechichioalo, nenexquetzalo, cacaoapinolli muchioa, xuchitlano, acaquaujtl mocoua, ijetlalli muchioa, molcaxitl mocoua, ioan çoqujtecomatl, ioan chiqujujtl: njman ie ic texoa, xocotextli apaztica momamana: njman ie ic tamalolo, ceiooal in nemoa, aço eilvitl, anoço omjlhvitl in tamaloa cioa, iuh qujtlaça ceioal: cenca çan achiton in concochi, in jmjxtlan onqujça.
\nAuh in ie imuztlaioc ie muchioaz: njman ie ic tecoanotzalo achtopa iehoantin in maviztililonj, in tetecutin, in achcacauhtin, in tequjoaque, ioan in tlapaliuhcaiaca, ioan in çan uel tlapalivi: in mach vel iehoan, ie intech ompovi: njman iehoantin in tiachcaoan,
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\nAnd the day before [the marriage] was to take place, there were invitations to banquet: first those who were illustrious, the lords, the captains, the seasoned warriors, and those who guided the groom, and the moderately matured youths, those same among whom [the groom] belonged, and then those who were the masters of the youths,
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