[de]fendemos y hallamos abrigo! ¡Tú eres invisible y no palpable, bien ansí como la noche y el aire! ¡Oh, que yo, baxo y de poco valor, me atrevo a parecer delante de vuestra majestad! Vengo a hablar como rústico y tartamudo. Será la manera de mi hablar como quien va saltando camellones o andando de lado, lo cual es cosa muy fea, por lo cual temo de provocar vuestra ira contra mí, y en lugar de aplacaros temo de indignaros. Pero vuestra majestad hará lo que fuese servido de mi persona. ¡Oh, señor, que habéis tenido por bien de desampararnos en estos días, conforme al consejo que vos tenéis ansí en el Cielo como en el Infierno! ¡Ay dolor, que la ira y indignación de vuestra majestad ha descendido en estos días sobre nosotros! Porque las aflicciones grandes y muchas de vuestra indignación nos han anegado y sumido, bien ansí como piedras y lanzas y saetas que han descendido sobre los tristes que vivimos en este mundo. Y esto es la gran pestilencia con que somos afligidos y casi destruidos. ¡Oh, señor valeroso y todopoderoso! ¡Ay dolor, que ya la gente popular se va acabando
\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":"c21b1320-966f-4c67-bbbe-647351c806ac","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":"we defend ourselves, and we find protection! You are invisible and intangible, just like the night and the wind! Oh, that I, lowly and unworthy, dare to appear before Your Majesty! I come here speaking like a peasant and a stutterer. My manner of speech must be like someone jumping over ridges or walking sideways, which is something so ugly that I am afraid of provoking your wrath against me; and instead of appeasing you, I am afraid of causing your indignation. Your Majesty, however, will do as he pleases with my person. Oh, lord, you whose will has been to desert us in these days, according to the council that you hold both in heaven and in hell! Alas, for Your Majesty’s wrath and indignation have descended upon us in these days! For the many great afflictions of your indignation have drowned us and sunk us, as if they were stones and spears and arrows falling upon us who sadly live in this world. And this is the great plague that is afflicting us and has almost destroyed us. Oh, brave and all-powerful lord, alas, for now the common people are perishing","html":"we defend ourselves, and we find protection! You are invisible and intangible, just like the night and the wind! Oh, that I, lowly and unworthy, dare to appear before Your Majesty! I come here speaking like a peasant and a stutterer. My manner of speech must be like someone jumping over ridges or walking sideways, which is something so ugly that I am afraid of provoking your wrath against me; and instead of appeasing you, I am afraid of causing your indignation. Your Majesty, however, will do as he pleases with my person. Oh, lord, you whose will has been to desert us in these days, according to the council that you hold both in heaven and in hell! Alas, for Your Majesty’s wrath and indignation have descended upon us in these days! For the many great afflictions of your indignation have drowned us and sunk us, as if they were stones and spears and arrows falling upon us who sadly live in this world. And this is the great plague that is afflicting us and has almost destroyed us. Oh, brave and all-powerful lord, alas, for now the common people are perishing
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\nTlacatle totecujoie, a ca nelle axcan: ca ie iauh, ca ie poliuj, in maceoalli, ca ie xaxamaca, ca ie ixpoliuj im maceoalli, in cujtlapilli, yn atlapalli: ca ie xamanj, ca ie teinj in piltzintli, in conetzintli: yn aia qujmomachitia in tlalli, in tapalcatl cololoa: in tlalli ijxco ca, in quaujc onoc, in quauhtentoc; ca
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\n“O master, O our lord, truly now already the common folk go; they already perish. Already there is havoc, already the common folk, the vassals,6 are destroyed. Already the babies, the children are [as if] crushed, shattered. They are those who know nothing, those who pile up earth [and] potsherds; those on the ground, who lie on the board, stretched out on the board. For
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”sera la manera de mj hablar, como qujen va saltando camellones, o andando de lado.” A similar passage in Chap. 10 equates njtlacueiacxolhvia with yendo a saltos de rana; in Garibay, Historia, Vol. I, p. 430, ”el orador se aleja de la real presencia temeroso de haber ido *como rana, a saltos.”↩
tlacaoa in moiollotzin: Alonso de Molina: Vocabvlario de la lengua mexicana, ed. Julio Platzmann (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1880), fol. 115v, gives: ”otorgar o conceder algo.” Cf. also Andrés de Olmos: Grammaire de la langue nahuatl ou mexicaine (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1875), p. 226.↩
We have consistently translated mictlan as “land of the dead.” It might also be rendered as “place of the dead” or “region of the dead.” Cf. Garibay, Historia, Vol. I, p. 195, for an extended discussion. The phrase in topan in mictlan also designates “the other side,” “the beyond.” See León-Portilla, op. cit., pp. 327, 394.↩
in quaujtl, in tetl: quauitl, tree, wood, or stick; tetl, stone; meaning castigation, punishment, correction. In Molina, op. cit., fol. 88r: ”Quauitl tetl nictetoctia. reprehender, corregir, y castigar a otro.” Cf. Olmos, op. cit., pp. 213–14. To the many metaphorical phrases found throughout Book VI, we have given the meaning of the metaphor or a literal translation, according as the context seems to require.↩
in temuxtli, in ehecatl: enfermedad o pestilencia. Cf. Molina, op. cit., fol. 98r (temoxtli).↩
in cujtlapilli, yn atlapalli: see Chap. 43.↩