será belicoso, será en la guerra valiente y esforzado, tendrá dignidad entre los que rigen las cosas de la milicia, será matador y vencedor." O por ventura les dirá: "No nació en buen signo el niño. Nació en signo desastrado. Pero\nhay alguna razonable casa que es de la cuenta deste signo, la cual templa y abona la maldad de su principal." Y luego le señala el día en que se ha de baptizar; dice: "Desde aquí a cuatro días se baptizará." Y si del todo el signo es contrario y no tiene ninguna casa que le abone, y anúncialos de la fortuna que tendrá el niño, porque él nació en signo mal afortunado, y que su fortuna mala no se puede remediar. Dice: "Lo que acontecerá a esta criatura es que será vicioso y carnal y ladrón. Su fortuna es desventurada. Todos sus trabajos y sus ganancias se volverán en humo por mucho que trabaje y atesore. O por ventura será perezoso y dormilón." O les dice será gran borracho. O les dice
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\nEvery trecena was ruled by its first day, which was considered the main day sign and which determined the luck of the next twelve days. However, even the most unlucky trecena would have some fortunate days, and the baby’s naming ceremony could be assigned to one of these. See bk. 4, where the system of finding out the fortune of each day sign is explained.↩
Here the text switches to the present tense.↩
[tla]tocatiz: anoço qujtoa, mocujltonoz: anoço qujtoa, oqujchtiz, quauhtiz, ocelotiz, tiacauhtiz, imac manjz in quauhxicalli, in quauhpiaztli, quauhpetlapan, ocelopetlapan iez, catlitiz, qujtlamacaz in tonatiuh, in tlaltecutli: anoço qujmjlhviz. Amo qualcan in omecavi piltzintli, tequantonalpan: iece qualtzin in vncan tlatoa, in jtlatqujcaio, ca qujnanamjquj, ca qujtlaqualtililia, qujcecevia in tequantonalli:
\nnjman qujtlalia in jquac maltiz: qujtoa: axcan nauhiopan in maltiz.
\nAuh intlacamo qualli tonalli, intla tequantonalli ipan otlacat, in jpan omecavi piltzintli: intlacamo no qualli in vncan tlatoa, in jpan cemjlhvitl: intlacamo qualli in jtlatqujcaio, intlacatle iqualtica î cemjlhvitl, qujioliuhtlamachtia in quenamj iez piltzintli:
\nqujmjlhvia. Ca tequantonalpan in omotlacatili piltzintli, ca amo qualcan: auh ca çan njman atle iqualtica, ca vel ovican. Izca in jpan muchioaz teuhtli,
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\nThen he established when it was to be bathed: he said, “Four days from now it will be bathed.”
\nAnd if it was not a good day, if it was an evil day sign on which it was born, on which the baby had arrived, and if those which governed there, along with the day, were also evil, if its companions were evil, if there was no improvement for the day, he indicated how the baby would be.
\nHe said to them: “It is in the time of an evil day sign that the baby was born, for it is a time of evil. Nothing is its betterment, for it is a most dangerous time. Behold that which will befall him:
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