como chalchíhuitl y zafiro, noble y generosa, ya es cierto agora que nuestro señor se acordado de vos, el cual está en toda parte y hace mercedes a quien quiere. Yastá claro questáis preñada, y que nuestro señor os quiere dar fructo de generación, y os quiere poner un joel y daros una pluma rica. Por ventura lo ham merecido vuestros suspiros y vuestras lágrimas, y el estendimiento de vuestras manos delante de nuestro señor, y las peticiones y oraciones que habéis ofrecido en presencia de nuestro señor, llamado tiniebla y aire, en las vigilias de la media noche. Por ventura habéis velado; por ventura habéis trabajado en barrer y en ofrecer encienso en su presencia; por ventura por estas buenas obras ha hecho con vos misericordia nuestro señor; por ventura ésta fue la causa por que se determinó en los cielos y en el Infierno ante del principio del mundo que se os hiciese esta merced; por ventura es verdad que nuestro señor Quetzalcóatl, que es criador y hacedor, os ha hecho esta merced; por ventura halo determinado el que
\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":"7cd57ede-17f5-4d84-b59f-512449f44da0","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":"like a _chalchihuitl_ and a sapphire, noble and wellborn, it is now already certain that our lord, who is everywhere and gives favors to anyone he wishes, has remembered you. It is now clear that you are pregnant, that our lord wishes to grant you the fruit of reproduction, and that he wishes to adorn you with a jewel and to give you a valuable feather. Perhaps you have earned these through your sighs and your tears, by stretching your hands out toward our lord, and through the petitions and prayers that you have offered during the midnight vigils in the presence of our lord, whose name is ‘darkness and air.’\n\n“Perhaps you have been keeping vigil; perhaps you have been working, sweeping and offering incense in his presence; perhaps our lord has shown you mercy because of these good deeds [of yours]. Perhaps this was the reason why it was decided in the heavens and in hell—before the beginning of the world—that this favor would be granted to you. Perhaps it is true that our lord Quetzalcoatl, who is the creator and the maker, granted you this favor. Perhaps this was decided by the one","html":"like a chalchihuitl and a sapphire, noble and wellborn, it is now already certain that our lord, who is everywhere and gives favors to anyone he wishes, has remembered you. It is now clear that you are pregnant, that our lord wishes to grant you the fruit of reproduction, and that he wishes to adorn you with a jewel and to give you a valuable feather. Perhaps you have earned these through your sighs and your tears, by stretching your hands out toward our lord, and through the petitions and prayers that you have offered during the midnight vigils in the presence of our lord, whose name is ‘darkness and air.’
\n“Perhaps you have been keeping vigil; perhaps you have been working, sweeping and offering incense in his presence; perhaps our lord has shown you mercy because of these good deeds [of yours]. Perhaps this was the reason why it was decided in the heavens and in hell—before the beginning of the world—that this favor would be granted to you. Perhaps it is true that our lord Quetzalcoatl, who is the creator and the maker, granted you this favor. Perhaps this was decided by the one
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\nAuh ma cuel mjtic ti[tlato:]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"5c66b262-6af7-481d-8ba8-633e3c150a04","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":"truly now the god, the ruler, the lord of the near, of the nigh, hath remembered thee. Within thee he wisheth to place a life; he wisheth to provide thee with a precious necklace; he wisheth to provide thee with a precious feather. [Is it because] perhaps thou hast sighed? Perhaps thou hast wept? Perhaps thou hast reached out thy arms unto him? Perhaps thou hast supplicated our lord, the night, the wind, [at] the division of the night, [at] midnight? And perhaps thou hast held vigil? Perhaps thou hast been industrious in sweeping, and in offering incense? Perhaps at this time our lord hath instructed thee, hath shown thee mercy? Perhaps for this reason it was determined above us, in the land of the dead, in the beginning, that our lord wisheth to place life within thee?[^2] Perhaps it is true that, perchance, the lord, our prince, Quetzalcoatl, the creator, the author, hath permitted it? And perhaps Ome tecutli, Ome ciuatl stated it? Perhaps the instruction was that a child be born.[^3]\n\n“And speak not \n\n\n\n\n[^2]: *Ibid.: “por uentura esta fue la causa, porque se determjno en los cielos, y en el infierno, ante del principio del mundo, que se os hjziesse esta merced… .”*\n\n\n[^3]: *Ibid.: “por uẽtura a lo determjnado el que reside en el cielo, vn hõbre, y vna muger, que se llama ome tecutli, y vme cioatl: por uentura esto esta ya a sido determjnado… .”* In Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. II, p. 162, the end of this passage reads: *”esto está ya asi determinado”; in the MS, the *-do* in *sido* may have been imperfectly erased.","html":"truly now the god, the ruler, the lord of the near, of the nigh, hath remembered thee. Within thee he wisheth to place a life; he wisheth to provide thee with a precious necklace; he wisheth to provide thee with a precious feather. [Is it because] perhaps thou hast sighed? Perhaps thou hast wept? Perhaps thou hast reached out thy arms unto him? Perhaps thou hast supplicated our lord, the night, the wind, [at] the division of the night, [at] midnight? And perhaps thou hast held vigil? Perhaps thou hast been industrious in sweeping, and in offering incense? Perhaps at this time our lord hath instructed thee, hath shown thee mercy? Perhaps for this reason it was determined above us, in the land of the dead, in the beginning, that our lord wisheth to place life within thee?1 Perhaps it is true that, perchance, the lord, our prince, Quetzalcoatl, the creator, the author, hath permitted it? And perhaps Ome tecutli, Ome ciuatl stated it? Perhaps the instruction was that a child be born.2
\n“And speak not
\nIbid.: “por uentura esta fue la causa, porque se determjno en los cielos, y en el infierno, ante del principio del mundo, que se os hjziesse esta merced… .”↩
Ibid.: “por uẽtura a lo determjnado el que reside en el cielo, vn hõbre, y vna muger, que se llama ome tecutli, y vme cioatl: por uentura esto esta ya a sido determjnado… .” In Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. II, p. 162, the end of this passage reads: ”esto está ya asi determinado”; in the MS, the *-do in sido may have been imperfectly erased.↩