Después de haber nacido la criatura, luego procuraban de saber el signo en que había nacido para saber la ventura que había de tener. A este propósito iban luego a buscar y a hablar al adivino que se llama tonalpouhqui, que quiere decir "sabe conocer la fortuna de los que nacen".
\nPrimeramente este adivino preguntaba por la hora en que había nacido. Y el que iba a buscarle le decía la hora en que había nacido la criatura. Y luego el adivino revolvía los libros; buscaba el signo en que había nacido, según la relación del que iba a informarle. Y luego preguntaba el adivino si había nacido de noche o
\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":"13afcc7b-fb35-4dd4-ac43-060071c360ea","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":"#### been born after midnight, they would assign the following day’s sign to it. And if it had been born at midnight, they would assign both signs to it. And then they would consult their books and predict whether the fate would be good or bad, according to the quality of the sign under which it had been born.[^76]\n\nAfter the baby was born, they would immediately try to know what sign it had been born under, in order to know the fate that it would have. For this purpose, they would go right away to look for and speak with the soothsayer called _tonalpouhqui_,[^77] which means “[one who] knows the fortune of those who are born.”\n\nThis soothsayer would first ask about the hour of the baby’s birth, and the one who went looking for him would tell him the hour at which the baby had been born. And then the soothsayer would search through his books and look for the sign under which it had been born, according to the account of the one who went to provide him with this information. And the soothsayer would then ask whether [the baby] had been born at night or during the day, or \n\n\n[^76]: There is no gender distinction regarding the baby and the ceremonies performed on its behalf by the soothsayers.\n\n[^77]: “The soothsayer called _tonalpouhqui_”: _al adivino que se llama tonalpouhqui_. The original Nahuatl does not specify the gender of the _tonalpouhqui_ (soothsayer). The Spanish translation uses the masculine noun _adivino_ to qualify them.","html":"After the baby was born, they would immediately try to know what sign it had been born under, in order to know the fate that it would have. For this purpose, they would go right away to look for and speak with the soothsayer called tonalpouhqui,2 which means “[one who] knows the fortune of those who are born.”
\nThis soothsayer would first ask about the hour of the baby’s birth, and the one who went looking for him would tell him the hour at which the baby had been born. And then the soothsayer would search through his books and look for the sign under which it had been born, according to the account of the one who went to provide him with this information. And the soothsayer would then ask whether [the baby] had been born at night or during the day, or
\nThere is no gender distinction regarding the baby and the ceremonies performed on its behalf by the soothsayers.↩
“The soothsayer called tonalpouhqui”: al adivino que se llama tonalpouhqui. The original Nahuatl does not specify the gender of the tonalpouhqui (soothsayer). The Spanish translation uses the masculine noun adivino to qualify them.↩
Auh in jquac otlacat piltzintli: njman qujtonalpovia, qujnotza in tonalpouhquj, qujnonotza in jnman oiecoc, in jnman otlalticpacqujz, Niman qujtta, qujçoa in jtlil, in jtlapal: in iehoatl tonalpouhquj, qujtta î cemjlhvitlapoalli: tlatlanj. Cujx iooaltica in otlacat, in oiecoc, cujx xelivi iooalli, cujx, oonqujz in iooalli xelivi:
\nintlacaiemo aci iooalli xelivi: oc nepa cemjlvitl ipan povi, in jpan otlacat: oc nepa tonalli itech pouhquj in jtlacatiliz:
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"5ce69d01-6b6e-415d-8ccc-22b036f76488","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":"#### not yet exactly midnight, then they assigned the day to the day sign which had passed. But if he had been born when midnight had passed, they assigned the day to the day sign which followed. And if he had been born exactly at the division of the night, they assigned the day to both [day signs]. And then they looked at their books; there they saw the sort of merit of the baby, perhaps good, or perhaps not, according as was the mandate of the day sign on which he was born.\n\nAnd when the baby was born, then they read the day signs. They summoned the soothsayer;[^1] they told him the instant it had arrived,[^2] the instant it had been born. Then he looked at, he opened out the writings. The soothsayer studied the day signs. He inquired if perhaps it was during the night that it was born, that it had arrived—perhaps at the division of the night, perhaps [when] the division of the night had passed.\n\nIf the division of the night had not already arrived, it belonged in this day in which it was born; to this day sign was assigned its birth. \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”a este proposito, yvan luego a buscar, y hablar al adiujno que se llama tonalpouhquj, que qujere dezir, sabe conocer la fortuna de los que nacen… .”*\n\n\n[^2]: Read *oecoc*.","html":"And when the baby was born, then they read the day signs. They summoned the soothsayer;1 they told him the instant it had arrived,2 the instant it had been born. Then he looked at, he opened out the writings. The soothsayer studied the day signs. He inquired if perhaps it was during the night that it was born, that it had arrived—perhaps at the division of the night, perhaps [when] the division of the night had passed.
\nIf the division of the night had not already arrived, it belonged in this day in which it was born; to this day sign was assigned its birth.
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