poco vivirá sobre la tierra. O les dice: "Mirad que está su signo indiferente, medio bueno y medio malo."
\nLuego busca un día que sea favorable, y no le baptizan al cuarto día. Echa adelante el baptismo en algún día que sea favorable, uno de los doce que se cuentan con el primero carácter. Lo que merece este adivino por esta adivinanza, que le dan a comer y a beber, y algunas mantas, y danle muchas cosas, que son gallinas y una carga de comida.
\nhis life on earth will be short. Or else he tells them, “Be aware that his sign is indifferent, half good and half bad.”
\nThen he searches for a day that may be favorable, and they do not baptize [the child] on the fourth day. He delays the baptism to a favorable day, one belonging to the twelve [days] that are counted along with the first character. What this soothsayer earns for this divination is that they give him food, drink, and some blankets; and they give him many things, such as chickens and a load of food.
\ntlaçulli ilvil iez: moochtequjliz, icnoiotl ilhvil, inemac iez, nêia in moteteçotinemjz tlalticpac: iece atletiz, in tlein mailiz noce cochtoz, vetztoz, tlatziuhquj iez.
\nnoce qujmjlhvia, mjxitl, tlapatl ilhvil, itequjuh iez, octli qujmocujtlaviz:
\nnoce qujmjlvia, amo vecaoaz, çan achi tonatiuh qujoallatiz: tla xicmottilican çan tlapantimanj in tonatiuh, in vncan omotlacatili.
\nNiman qujpepena in qualli tonalli: amo çan nauhiopantica in maltia, oc conchololtia qujttilia in qualtzin tonalli, in anoço qualtzin in vncan tlatoa in jtlatqujcaio. Auh in tonalpouhquj, in ijlhvil, in jmaceoal, in jnemac: atli, tlaqua, qujtlauhtia: auh amo çan quexqujch in qujmaca, çan mantiuh in totolin, auh centlamamalli in tlaqualli.
\nvice will be his desert; he will become a thief; misery will be his desert, his lot. Vainly will he struggle on earth, but that which will be done will fail. Or he will remain sleeping, he will remain reclining, he will be lazy.”
\nOr he said to them: “Jimson weed will be his desert, his mission. He will take to pulque.”
\nOr he said to them: “He will not grow old. He will only endure a while.” [Or he said:] “Consider! The sun was only broken [half good, half bad] when he was born.”1
\nThen he chose a good day, not just the fourth day hence, that it be bathed. He still skipped; he sought a good day, or a good one of its companions which governed there. And the desert, the merit, the lot of the soothsayer was to drink, to eat; and not just a little did they give him; he went [with] turkeys and a load of food.2
\nSee Chap. 30, n. 5. Corresponding Spanish text: ”poco viujra sobre la tierra, o les dize: mjrad que esta su signo indeferente medio bueno, y medio malo… .”↩
Ibid.: “Lo que merece este adiujno, por esta adiujnança que le dan a comer, y a beuer, y algunas mantas, y danle muchas cosas que son gallinas, y vna carga de comjda.”↩