Aquistoy yo, que me llamo médica. Y para esto soy médica, para informar de las cosas que son peligrosas en este caso. Y si por ventura alguno destos peligros nos aconteciere, ¿tengo yo algún remedio o alguna medicina, por ventura, para ubviarlo? ¿Podré, por ventura, hacer algo para remediarlo? ¿Tengo, por ventura, poder absoluto para librar de la muerte? Solamente podemos ayudar a nuestro señor con avisos y medicinas y conformarlos con su voluntad. Lo que nosotros podemos hacer es como oxear las muscas con muscadero o aventadero al que tiene calor. ¿Por ventura podremos mandar "hágase esto" o "hágase aquello"? ¿Podremos decir "nazca bien esta criatura", y deciéndolo será luego hecho? ¿Por ventura podremos tomar por nuestro querer la misericordia de Dios, que está en todo lugar? Esto, por cierto, nos es imposible, que las cosas se hagan según nuestro querer. Pues resta agora que todos nosotros roguemos a nuestro señor y esperemos en él para que se haga su voluntad, la cual ignoramos. Y no tenemos merecimientos para que se haga lo que queremos. Ninguna otra cosa nos es más necesaria que llorar y derramar lágrimas. Señores míos, seáis muy bienaventurados, nietos míos muy amados. No tengo más que decir.
\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":"c4625fb1-01e4-4f28-99b9-0842194289c8","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":"womb.\n\n“Here I am, and I call myself a healer. And this is why I am a healer: to inform you about the dangerous factors in this situation. And if perhaps one of these dangers should befall us, do I perhaps have any remedy or any medicine to prevent it? Shall I perhaps be able to do anything to remedy it? Do I have, perhaps, the absolute power to save [anyone] from death? We can only assist our lord with our recommendations and with our medicines, and to make these conform to his will. What we can do is like using a flyswatter or a fan to shoo flies away from someone who is suffering from the heat. Shall we, perhaps, be able to order, ‘Let this or that be done?’ Shall we be able to say, ‘May this baby have a good birth,’ and make it happen right away just by saying it? Shall we, perhaps, be able to obtain at our will the mercy of god, who is everywhere? That things should be done at our will is something that is certainly impossible for us. So now all of us can only pray to our lord and place our hopes in him, that his will be done, even though we do not know what it is. And we do not deserve what we desire to have happen. Nothing is more necessary for us than to cry and shed tears. My lords, my very beloved grandchildren, may you be very fortunate. I have nothing else to say.”","html":"womb.
\n“Here I am, and I call myself a healer. And this is why I am a healer: to inform you about the dangerous factors in this situation. And if perhaps one of these dangers should befall us, do I perhaps have any remedy or any medicine to prevent it? Shall I perhaps be able to do anything to remedy it? Do I have, perhaps, the absolute power to save [anyone] from death? We can only assist our lord with our recommendations and with our medicines, and to make these conform to his will. What we can do is like using a flyswatter or a fan to shoo flies away from someone who is suffering from the heat. Shall we, perhaps, be able to order, ‘Let this or that be done?’ Shall we be able to say, ‘May this baby have a good birth,’ and make it happen right away just by saying it? Shall we, perhaps, be able to obtain at our will the mercy of god, who is everywhere? That things should be done at our will is something that is certainly impossible for us. So now all of us can only pray to our lord and place our hopes in him, that his will be done, even though we do not know what it is. And we do not deserve what we desire to have happen. Nothing is more necessary for us than to cry and shed tears. My lords, my very beloved grandchildren, may you be very fortunate. I have nothing else to say.”
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"5ae08aab-f6d3-4ed1-8db4-a3e233b4e0ce","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"[topan]tic in jtlacachioalizpan piltontli: \n\nâ iz njca in mjtoa njticitl: ça nel no ic njticitl, cujx mjqujzpatli njcpia, cujx njctecujcujliz, in oitla ipan tehoato o? cujx mjqujzpatli nomac ca, njqujtqujtinemj: ca çan nanamjco, ca çan palevilo in totecujo: auh ca çan tlaecapeviliztli ticchioa, cujx toconjtozque: ma iuh onmuchioa in, ma vellacati in piltontli, cujx tocontotenjtalhvizque: auh tocontocujlizque in jtetlaocoliliztzin tloque, naoaque: anca quenamj ipan teoativi. \n\nMa oc nelle axcan timuchintin, titlateumatican, ma oc tictotemachilican in totecujo: quecin qujmonenequjltitica, cujx itla tocnopil, tomaceoal, cujx no ie in atle: çan choqujztli, çan ixaiotl monequj in axcan: tle anqujmomachititzinoa, totecujoan, noxviuhtzitzinoan, tlaçotitlacatzitzinti.","html":"[topan]tic in jtlacachioalizpan piltontli:
\nâ iz njca in mjtoa njticitl: ça nel no ic njticitl, cujx mjqujzpatli njcpia, cujx njctecujcujliz, in oitla ipan tehoato o? cujx mjqujzpatli nomac ca, njqujtqujtinemj: ca çan nanamjco, ca çan palevilo in totecujo: auh ca çan tlaecapeviliztli ticchioa, cujx toconjtozque: ma iuh onmuchioa in, ma vellacati in piltontli, cujx tocontotenjtalhvizque: auh tocontocujlizque in jtetlaocoliliztzin tloque, naoaque: anca quenamj ipan teoativi.
\nMa oc nelle axcan timuchintin, titlateumatican, ma oc tictotemachilican in totecujo: quecin qujmonenequjltitica, cujx itla tocnopil, tomaceoal, cujx no ie in atle: çan choqujztli, çan ixaiotl monequj in axcan: tle anqujmomachititzinoa, totecujoan, noxviuhtzitzinoan, tlaçotitlacatzitzinti.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"466a2050-4564-47a7-88a2-45a93e20f276","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":"at the time of the birth of the baby.\n\n“Here am I, I who am called a midwife. Verily also for this reason am I a midwife. Do I perchance guard a cure for death? Shall I perchance withhold it from one if we should go to help one? Is it a cure for death which is in my hand, which I go carrying with me?[^17] For our lord can only be helped, can only be aided [by what we do]. But what we do is only [like] fanning flies away. Can we perchance say: ‘Let it come to pass this way’; ‘Let the baby be born in good condition’? Shall we perchance be vain about it? And shall we claim for ourselves the mercy of the lord of the near, of the nigh, because of the manner in which we have gone to help?\n\n“Verily, let all of us now show our devotion; let us yet have faith in our lord, in whatsoever he is determining. Will we perchance merit, will we deserve something? Is there also perchance nothing? Are only weeping, only tears now required? This is what you know, my ladies, my grandchildren, precious persons.”\n\n\n\n\n[^17]: *Ibid.: “tengo yo algun remedio, o alguna medicina, por uentura para vujarlo* [sic]? *podre por uentura hazer algo, para remediarlo? tengo por uentura poder absoluto, para librar de la muerte?”* For* vujarlo, evitarlo* is read (cf. Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. II, p. 177), although *obviarlo* might be equally suitable.","html":"at the time of the birth of the baby.
\n“Here am I, I who am called a midwife. Verily also for this reason am I a midwife. Do I perchance guard a cure for death? Shall I perchance withhold it from one if we should go to help one? Is it a cure for death which is in my hand, which I go carrying with me?1 For our lord can only be helped, can only be aided [by what we do]. But what we do is only [like] fanning flies away. Can we perchance say: ‘Let it come to pass this way’; ‘Let the baby be born in good condition’? Shall we perchance be vain about it? And shall we claim for ourselves the mercy of the lord of the near, of the nigh, because of the manner in which we have gone to help?
\n“Verily, let all of us now show our devotion; let us yet have faith in our lord, in whatsoever he is determining. Will we perchance merit, will we deserve something? Is there also perchance nothing? Are only weeping, only tears now required? This is what you know, my ladies, my grandchildren, precious persons.”
\nIbid.: “tengo yo algun remedio, o alguna medicina, por uentura para vujarlo [sic]? podre por uentura hazer algo, para remediarlo? tengo por uentura poder absoluto, para librar de la muerte?” For* vujarlo, evitarlo* is read (cf. Sahagún, Garibay ed., Vol. II, p. 177), although obviarlo might be equally suitable.↩