se toma en la cabeza, que se mata en la uña.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa una caña hueca que está cantando? Éste es el sacabuche.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa un negrillo que va escribiendo con vedriado? Son los caracolitos negros, que cuando van andando dexan el camino por donde van vedriado con unas babitas que dexan.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa que está señalando al cielo con el dedo? Es la espina del maguey.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa que tiene naoas de sola una pierna y busca piojos? Es el peine, que en el medio tiene como una pierna de manta angosta, y de ambas partes las púas que sacan los piojos de la cabeza.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa que en todo el mundo encima de nosotros se encorva? Son los penachos del maíz cuando se van secando y encorvando.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa una vieja mostruosa debaxo de la tierra anda comiendo o ruyendo? Es el topo.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa una cosita pequeñita, de plata, que está atada con una hebra de ichtli de color castaño? Es la liendre, que está como atada al cabello.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa espejo que está en una casa hecha de ramos de pino? Es el ojo, que tiene las cejas como ramadas del árbol que llaman acxóatl.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa un cerro como loma, y mana por de dentro? Son las narices.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa que muele con pedernales, y allí tiene un cuero blando echado, y está cercado con carne? Es la boca, que tiene los dientes con que masca, y la lengua tendida en medio. Está cerrada con carne, son los labios, etcétera.
\n¿Qué cosa y cosa que tiene la cara de carne blanda y el cobote duro, encaxado en la carne? Es el dedo de la mano, que tiene de una parte la carne blanda, y de la contraria la uña encaxada.
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\nWhat is it that is a singing hollow reed? It is the sackbut.
\nWhat is it that is a little black thing that goes about writing with glaze? They are the little black snails that, as they go crawling along, leave behind them a path glazed with some sort of slime that they leave behind.
\nWhat is it that points to the sky with its finger? It is the maguey thorn.
\nWhat is it that has a single-legged skirt1 and looks for lice? It is the comb that has a sort of leg of narrow cloth in its middle and sharp teeth on both sides that remove lice from the head.
\nWhat is it that, all over the world, bends over us? They are the maize tufts, when they are drying out and bending over.
\nWhat is it that is a monstrous older woman who goes eating and gnawing underground? It is the mole.
\nWhat is it that is a tiny little thing made of silver that is tied with a tawny-colored ichtli thread? It is the louse that is somehow tied to the hair.
\nWhat is it that is a mirror inside a house made of fir branches? It is the eye, which has eyebrows like the branches of the tree that they call acxoyatl.
\nWhat is it that is a hill like a mountain and flows out from within? It is the nose.
\nWhat is it that grinds with flint knives, has a soft piece of leather right there, and is surrounded by flesh? It is the mouth, which has teeth for chewing and the tongue spread out in the middle. It is enclosed by flesh, such as the lips, et cetera.
\nWhat is it that has a face made of soft flesh and a hard neck stuck in its flesh? It is the hand’s finger, which has soft flesh on one side and a fingernail embedded on the other.
\n“Skirt”: naguas.↩
[toça]çanjltzin, tlacanenca atemjtl: tocpac toconana, toztipan tiqualteca: vncan toconmjctia.
\nÇaçan tleino, cocoçacatzin mocujcujcatia. Tlacanenca sacapuch.
\nÇaçan tleino, cacatzactli temetzatica tlacujloa. Teccizmamaque.
\nÇaçan tleino, ilhvicac vmmapilotoque. Vitztli.
\nÇaçan tleino, içeçocuetzin moteahatemjlia. Tziquaoaztli
\nÇan tleino, cemanaoac topapancololtzitzin. Miiaoatl.
\nÇaçan tleino, tetzavilama tlallan tlaquaqua. Toçan.
\nÇaçan tleino, teocujtlapolotziqujtzin iapalichtica mecaiotica. Aceli.
\nÇaçan tleynon tezcatzintli acxoiacaletica. tixtelolo.
\nÇaçan tleino, tepetlamjmjlollj ijtic ameia. Toiac.
\nÇaçan tleino, tecpatica texoa, cuetlaxtli vncan onoc, nacatica tzacquj. Tocamac.
\nÇaçan tleino, ixnacapapatz, cuexcochcacalacti. Tomapil.
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\nWhat is that which is a hollow straw singing? It is the sackbut.
\nWhat is that which is black, writing with liquid lead? The crawling snail.
\nWhat is that which lies pointing to the heavens, with its finger? The maguey point.
\nWhat is that which has a skirt of one piece with which lice are removed from one? The comb.
\nWhat is it that bends over us all over the world? The maize tassel.
\nWhat is that which is a terrifying old woman who gnaws under the earth? The gopher.
\nWhat is that which is a little silver thing tied on a brown maguey thread? A nit.
\nWhat is that which is a small mirror in a house made of fir branches? Our eye.
\nWhat is that which is a hill whence there is a flow? Our nose.
\nWhat is that which grinds with flint knives, in which a piece of leather lies, enclosed in flesh? Our mouth.
\nWhat is that of which the face is soft flesh, the occiput inserted? Our finger.
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