a la cual prometen y ofrecen para que os sirva su padre y madre. Y bien la conocéis a la pobrecita, que vuestra es. Tened por bien de recebirla para que algunos días barra y limpie y atavíe vuestra casa, que es casa de penitencia y de lloro, donde las hijas de los nobles meten la mano en vuestras riquezas, orando y llamándoos con lágrimas y con gran devoción, y donde con oraciones demandan vuestras palabras y vuestra virtud. Tened por bien, señor, de hacerla merced y recebirla. Ponelda, señor, en la compañía y número de las mujeres vírgines que se llaman tlamacazque y tlamaceuhque, que hacen penitencia y sirven en el templo y traen cortados los cabellos. ¡Oh, señor humanísimo y amparador de todos! Tened por bien de hacer con ella aquello que es vuestra sancta voluntad, haciéndole las mercedes que vos sabéis que conviene." Dicho esto, si la mozuela era grandecilla, sajábanla las costillas y el pecho en señal que era religiosa. Y si era aún pequeña, echábanle un sartal al cuello, que se llama yacualli. Y la niña, hasta en tanto que llegaba a la edad convenible para entrar en el monasterio, traíase aquel sartal, que era señal de el voto que había de cumplir. Todo este tiempo estaba en la casa de sus padres. Y desque llegaba a la edad para entrar en el monasterio, metíanla en aquella religión de calmécac, casa de penitencia. Y también la mozuela, en siendo de edad, la ponían entre las religiosas desta religión de calmécac.
\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":"b6150522-cbd5-415f-8182-f3a887b819e8","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":"who is being pledged and offered by her father and mother so that she might serve you. And you know this poor little one well, for she is yours. May you be pleased to receive her so that, for a while, she may sweep, clean, and adorn your house, which is a house of penance and weeping, where the nobles’ daughters get their hands into your riches[^98] as they pray and cry out to you with tears and great devotion, and where they ask, through their prayers, for your words and your virtue. May it please you, lord, to grant her this favor and to receive her. Place her, lord, among the number and company of the virgin women who are called _tlamacazqueh_ and _tlamaceuhqueh_, who perform penance, serve in the temple, and wear their hair cut short. Oh, most humane lord, protector of all! May it please you to do with her that which is your holy will, by granting her those favors that you know are suitable.” Having said this, if the maiden was already somewhat older, they would make a cut on her ribs and chest as a sign that she was a religious woman. And if she was still small, they would put a necklace called _yacualli_ around her neck. And until she reached the proper age to enter the monastery, the girl would always wear that necklace as a sign of the vow that she would fulfill. She would remain in her parents’ house for all this time. And as soon as she reached the age of entering the monastery, they would place her in that religion of the _calmecac_, the house of penance. And when the maiden was of age, she would also be placed among the religious women belonging to this religion of the _calmecac_.\n\n\n[^98]: “Where the nobles’ daughters . . . riches”: _donde las hijas de los nobles meten la mano en vuestras riquezas_. See A&D, bk. 6, 210n3.","html":"who is being pledged and offered by her father and mother so that she might serve you. And you know this poor little one well, for she is yours. May you be pleased to receive her so that, for a while, she may sweep, clean, and adorn your house, which is a house of penance and weeping, where the nobles’ daughters get their hands into your riches1 as they pray and cry out to you with tears and great devotion, and where they ask, through their prayers, for your words and your virtue. May it please you, lord, to grant her this favor and to receive her. Place her, lord, among the number and company of the virgin women who are called tlamacazqueh and tlamaceuhqueh, who perform penance, serve in the temple, and wear their hair cut short. Oh, most humane lord, protector of all! May it please you to do with her that which is your holy will, by granting her those favors that you know are suitable.” Having said this, if the maiden was already somewhat older, they would make a cut on her ribs and chest as a sign that she was a religious woman. And if she was still small, they would put a necklace called yacualli around her neck. And until she reached the proper age to enter the monastery, the girl would always wear that necklace as a sign of the vow that she would fulfill. She would remain in her parents’ house for all this time. And as soon as she reached the age of entering the monastery, they would place her in that religion of the calmecac, the house of penance. And when the maiden was of age, she would also be placed among the religious women belonging to this religion of the calmecac.
\n“Where the nobles’ daughters . . . riches”: donde las hijas de los nobles meten la mano en vuestras riquezas. See A&D, bk. 6, 210n3.↩
[mo]cozcatlantzinco mamaiavi in tepilhoan, in vncan tinotzalo, in vncan titzatzililo, in vncan titlaoculnonotzalo, in vncan titlanjlilo, in mjhijo, in motlatol: manoço xicmocnelili, ma xicmocelili: ma intech xicmopovili, ma inioan povi in tlamaceuhque, in tlamacazque, in motecque. Tlacatle, totecujoe, tloquee, naoaque: ma tlacaoa in moiollotzin, ma xicmopovili, in tlein ticmopoviliz, in tlein ticmocuepiliz.
\nNiman qujmachiotia in ie achi qualton, mjtoa qujquapaxotla, ijelpan qujtetequj: auh in oc conetontli qujcozcatia hijaqualli. Auh in cioatl conetontli, inmanel noço ie achi vei: çanijo qujcozcatia in hijaqualli: in oc conepil qujoapaoa in jnantzin, in jtatzin, in oqujchpiltontli, in cioapiltontli. Auh in ie vei: njman calaquj in teupan in oquichpiltontli, calmecac calaquj tlamaceoalizcali. In cioapiltontli in ie qualton: no calaquj in calmecac in vncan onoque, in vncan mopia ipihoan.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"c95451aa-31cd-46c5-801d-a828553f46ff","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":"the daughters of noblemen remove the secrets from thy bosom, from thy lap,[^3] where thou art consulted, where thou art called upon, where thou art called out to in sorrow, where thy spirit, thy words are demanded. Show her mercy, receive her. Assign her to—may she be with[^4]—the penitent, the priestesses, those of cut [hair]. O master, O our lord, O lord of the near, of the nigh, incline thy heart, favor her with that which thou wilt favor her, with that with which thou wilt compensate her.”\n\nWhen she was already somewhat grown, they placed a marking on her, it was said; they scarified her hip, they incised her chest; and when she was yet a small child, they provided her with the *yaqualli* necklace. And the female child, even though already somewhat older, they provided only with the *yaqualli* necklace. While yet the child was small, its mother [and] its father reared it—[whether a] male child [or] a female child. But when already older, then the male child entered the temple; he entered the *calmecac*, the house of penance. The female child, when already grown, also entered the *calmecac* where her older sisters remained, where they were guarded.\n\n\n\n\n[^3]: *Ibid.: “donde las hijas de los nobles, meten la mano en vr̃as riquezas… .”* References in this chapter to the reception of females into the *calmecac* or the *telpochcalli* are more often explicit in the Spanish than in the Nahuatl text.\n\n\n[^4]: Read *inuan*.","html":"the daughters of noblemen remove the secrets from thy bosom, from thy lap,1 where thou art consulted, where thou art called upon, where thou art called out to in sorrow, where thy spirit, thy words are demanded. Show her mercy, receive her. Assign her to—may she be with2—the penitent, the priestesses, those of cut [hair]. O master, O our lord, O lord of the near, of the nigh, incline thy heart, favor her with that which thou wilt favor her, with that with which thou wilt compensate her.”
\nWhen she was already somewhat grown, they placed a marking on her, it was said; they scarified her hip, they incised her chest; and when she was yet a small child, they provided her with the yaqualli necklace. And the female child, even though already somewhat older, they provided only with the yaqualli necklace. While yet the child was small, its mother [and] its father reared it—[whether a] male child [or] a female child. But when already older, then the male child entered the temple; he entered the calmecac, the house of penance. The female child, when already grown, also entered the calmecac where her older sisters remained, where they were guarded.
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