a la criatura. Y si los dolores eran recios aún todavía, dábanla a beber tanto como medio dedo de la cola del animal que se llama tlacuatzin, molida. Con esto paría más fácilmente, porque esta cola deste animal tiene gra virtud para espeler y hacer salir la criatura. Tiene esta carne y cola deste animal tan fuerte virtud de espeler, que una vez un perro a hurtas comió uno destos animalejos que se llama tlacuatzin, y luego echó el perro por el sienso todas las tripas y todos los hígados, que no le quedó nada en el cuerpo. De la misma manera, si alguno comiese o bebiese molido una cola entera de uno destos animales, luego echaría por baxo todos los entestinos.
\nY si después de haber bebido la preñada las dos cosas arriba dichas no paría, luego la partera y los que estaban con ella tomaban conjectura que había de murir la que estaba de parto, y comenzaba a llorar. Y la partera comenzaba a decir: "Hijos míos y hijas, ¿qué es la voluntad de nuestro señor que nos ha de
\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":"55d68653-84ee-45d9-9ddb-d5767711fbcb","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":"the baby out. And if the pains were still strong, they would give her as much as half a finger of the ground tail of the animal called _tlacuatzin_ to drink. She would give birth more easily with it, because this animal’s tail has the great power of pushing and making the baby come out. This animal’s flesh and tail have such a strong power to expel that a dog once sneakily ate one of these little animals called _tlacuatzin_, and the dog promptly excreted all its guts and organs through its anus, so that nothing remained inside its body. Likewise, if someone were to eat or drink a whole ground tail of one of these animals, [that person] would immediately excrete all his or her intestines from below.\n\nAnd if the pregnant woman was not delivering after drinking the two things mentioned above, then the midwife and those who were with her would conjecture that the woman in labor was about to die, and she would start to cry.[^59] And the midwife would begin to say, “My sons and daughters, what does our lord wish to \n\n\n[^59]: “And she would start to cry”: _y comenzaba a llorar_. It is unclear in the Spanish who the subject of the verb is, the laboring woman or the midwife. The Nahuatl text indicates general weeping.","html":"the baby out. And if the pains were still strong, they would give her as much as half a finger of the ground tail of the animal called tlacuatzin to drink. She would give birth more easily with it, because this animal’s tail has the great power of pushing and making the baby come out. This animal’s flesh and tail have such a strong power to expel that a dog once sneakily ate one of these little animals called tlacuatzin, and the dog promptly excreted all its guts and organs through its anus, so that nothing remained inside its body. Likewise, if someone were to eat or drink a whole ground tail of one of these animals, [that person] would immediately excrete all his or her intestines from below.
\nAnd if the pregnant woman was not delivering after drinking the two things mentioned above, then the midwife and those who were with her would conjecture that the woman in labor was about to die, and she would start to cry.1 And the midwife would begin to say, “My sons and daughters, what does our lord wish to
\n“And she would start to cry”: y comenzaba a llorar. It is unclear in the Spanish who the subject of the verb is, the laboring woman or the midwife. The Nahuatl text indicates general weeping.↩
[conten]tiuetzi: njman conjtia in xivitl, in jtoca cioapatli in tlacxotlanj, in tlatopeoanj: intla cenca qujhijotia in cioatzintli ijti: quen omjxtli conjtia in tlaquatl icujtlapil, in ça iequene concenvica, iciuhca ic tlacachioa. Injn ca çan njman atlamati, ca vel tlacxotlanj, tlaqujxtianj, tlatopeoanj.
\nCeppa chichi qujchtacaqua; vel centetl in tlaquatl: injc cenca ihijo in tlaquatl, muchi motepeoaco, muchi motoxaoaco, muchi qujxix in jcujtlaxcol, injn chichi: no iuhqui intla aca, vel ce conj in jcujtlapil tlaquatl: ca muchi oalmotoxaoaz in jcujtlaxcol, ca muchi qujxixaz. Ic ipampa in cioatzintli: intla oqujc cioapatli, in joan tlaquatl: intlacamo qujtlacamati in ijti: cenca tlaovicamati
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"e43dd8c9-39be-445f-a7d4-d0120b638d4b","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":"they quickly bathed her in the sweat bath;[^1] then they had her drink an [infusion of the root of an] herb named *ciuapatli*,[^2] an expellent, an ejectant. If the woman suffered much labor pain, they gave her as much as two fingers of opossum tail [ground up, in water],[^3] to drink, which would probably carry all with it. Thereby she quickly gave birth. This is much superior, for it is an expellent, an extractor, an ejectant.\n\nOnce a dog secretly ate an entire opossum. Such is the quality of the opossum that this dog came rejecting everything; it came casting everything out, defecating all its intestines. Likewise if one drank all the tail of an opossum, he would cast out all his intestines; he would defecate everything. Because of this, if the woman drank the *ciuapatli* and the opossum [tail infusion, and] if her labor pains responded not, \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: *contentiuetzi* (der. from *tema*) may be taken as implying a sweat bath. The corresponding Spanish text, however, is *”luego dauã vn baño.”*\n\n\n[^2]: *ciuapatli: Montanoa tomentosa* Cervant (Dibble and Anderson, *Florentine Codex*. Book X, “The People,” p. 155).\n\n\n[^3]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”dauanla a beuer, tanto como medio dedo de la cola del anjmal, que se llama tlaquatzin, molida… .”*","html":"they quickly bathed her in the sweat bath;1 then they had her drink an [infusion of the root of an] herb named ciuapatli,2 an expellent, an ejectant. If the woman suffered much labor pain, they gave her as much as two fingers of opossum tail [ground up, in water],3 to drink, which would probably carry all with it. Thereby she quickly gave birth. This is much superior, for it is an expellent, an extractor, an ejectant.
\nOnce a dog secretly ate an entire opossum. Such is the quality of the opossum that this dog came rejecting everything; it came casting everything out, defecating all its intestines. Likewise if one drank all the tail of an opossum, he would cast out all his intestines; he would defecate everything. Because of this, if the woman drank the ciuapatli and the opossum [tail infusion, and] if her labor pains responded not,
\ncontentiuetzi (der. from tema) may be taken as implying a sweat bath. The corresponding Spanish text, however, is ”luego dauã vn baño.”↩
ciuapatli: Montanoa tomentosa Cervant (Dibble and Anderson, Florentine Codex. Book X, “The People,” p. 155).↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”dauanla a beuer, tanto como medio dedo de la cola del anjmal, que se llama tlaquatzin, molida… .”↩