despedazadores y vuestros azotes lastimeros sobre el miserable de vuestro pueblo, flaco y de poca sustancia, bien ansí como una cañahexa verde. Pues ¿qué es agora, señor nuestro, valeroso, piadoso, invisible, inpalpable, a cuya voluntad obedecen todas las cosas, de cuya disposición pende el regimiento de todo el orbe, a quien todo está subjecto, qué es lo que habéis determinado en vuestro divino pecho? ¿Por ventura habéis determinado de desamparar del todo a vuestro pueblo y a vuestra gente? ¿Es verdad que habéis determinado de que perezca totalmente, y no haya más memoria dél en el mundo, y que el sitio donde están poblados sea una montaña de árboles o un pedregal despoblado? ¿Por ventura los templos y oratorios y altares y lugares edificados a vuestro servicio habéis de permitir que se destruyan y asuelen y no haya más memoria dellos? ¿Es posible que vuestra ira y vuestro castigo y la indignación de vuestro enojo es del todo inaplacable y que ha de proceder hasta llegar al cabo
\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":"8fb68b83-4cb9-4fa3-a7a7-b2c5e1de0a07","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":"and your pitiful lashes just like a whip[^2] upon your miserable, weakened, and wasted people. For what is it that you wish to happen now, oh, brave, merciful, invisible, intangible lord of ours, whose will is obeyed by all that exists, who has the fate of the whole world hanging by his disposition, and who rules over all? What have you decided within your divine heart? Perhaps you have decided to completely forsake your nation and your people? Is it true that you have decided that it should utterly perish, so that no memory of it will remain in this world, and that the place that they inhabit should become a forested hill or a unpopulated rocky wasteland? Will you perhaps allow the temples, shrines, altars, and the sites built to serve you to be razed and destroyed, so that no memory of them remains? Is it possible that your wrath, your punishment, and the indignation of your anger are completely implacable and that they will proceed until they reach \n\n\n[^2]: “Just like a whip”: _como una cañahexa verde_; literally, “like a green cane [for whipping].” The corresponding metaphor in the Nahuatl text reads _in acatl in aoachio_ (the cane, the dew), presumably a reference to wet stinging nettles (_tzitzicaztli_), which are mentioned in the same passage.","html":"and your pitiful lashes just like a whip1 upon your miserable, weakened, and wasted people. For what is it that you wish to happen now, oh, brave, merciful, invisible, intangible lord of ours, whose will is obeyed by all that exists, who has the fate of the whole world hanging by his disposition, and who rules over all? What have you decided within your divine heart? Perhaps you have decided to completely forsake your nation and your people? Is it true that you have decided that it should utterly perish, so that no memory of it will remain in this world, and that the place that they inhabit should become a forested hill or a unpopulated rocky wasteland? Will you perhaps allow the temples, shrines, altars, and the sites built to serve you to be razed and destroyed, so that no memory of them remains? Is it possible that your wrath, your punishment, and the indignation of your anger are completely implacable and that they will proceed until they reach
\n“Just like a whip”: como una cañahexa verde; literally, “like a green cane [for whipping].” The corresponding metaphor in the Nahuatl text reads in acatl in aoachio (the cane, the dew), presumably a reference to wet stinging nettles (tzitzicaztli), which are mentioned in the same passage.↩
cujx tlamiz in tlatqujtl, in tlamamalli? cujx cauhtimanjz, cujx iooatimanjz in atl, in tepetl: cujx aoccan iez, cujx quappachiujz, cujx tetemjz, in mocnoauh, in motepeuh: auh in mochialoca: in motetel, in motzaqual imanca, cujx xiniz, cujx moiaoaz?
\ncujx ça aocmo? cujx ça ie ixqujch, cujx ie iuhquj: cujx aocmo ilotiz, in quaujtl, in tetl: cujx aocmo cuepiz, in melleltzin, in moqualantzin: cujx aoc tle ic ceujz in moçomaltzin, in melleltzin? cujx ça otimacaoaloque: cujx oitoloc in topan, in mjctlan, cujx omjto, cujx aocmo çan, atl cecec: cujx aocmo çan tzitzicaztli, cujx nelli axcan: cemmaian tlaiooaz? ça aocmo monacaztitlanpatzinco ticmottiliz in maceoalli?
\na ca yvin mopoloa y, in motzontlaujtzoa, in aujc motlaça, in acan veli qujchioa: a in jtlanco, in jcamac tlalli: a ca otlaiooac, ca iuhquj in oivin[tioac,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"6c1834c4-10e8-44ab-a9fd-48c5f78a714a","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":"Will the governed come to an end? Will emptiness, darkness prevail in the city? Will it not be? Will thy miserable city choke with trees, fill with stones? And thy places for holding vigil, where thy mounds, thy pyramids are located, will they fall to pieces, will they break up?\n\n“Is this perchance to be no more? Is this to be all? It is perchance this way? Will the castigation abate no more, will thy annoyance, thy anger be reversed? Will thy wrath, thy annoyance, no more be placated? Have we perchance just been forsaken? Hath it perchance been ordained above us in the land of the dead—hath it perchance been declared? Perchance no longer is there castigation with icy water?[^17] Perchance no longer is there castigation with nettles? Perchance in truth now there will be darkness forever? Wilt thou no longer look back upon the common folk?[^18]\n\n“For—ah!—thus are they destroyed, those who are restless in sickness, who toss from side to side, who nowhere can do anything; whose teeth, whose mouths [are filled with] dirt. For darkness is fallen; all are \n\n\n\n\n[^17]: Cf. Chap. 43.\n\n\n[^18]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”Es posible: que este açote, y este castigo no se nos da para nuestra correccion, y emjenda? sino para total destruycion, y asolacion? y que no a mas de resplendescer el sol, sobre nosotros? sino que estemos en perpetuas tinjeblas, y en eterno silencio: y que nunca mas nos aueys de mjrar, con ojos de mjsericordia, nj poco, nj mas?”*","html":"Will the governed come to an end? Will emptiness, darkness prevail in the city? Will it not be? Will thy miserable city choke with trees, fill with stones? And thy places for holding vigil, where thy mounds, thy pyramids are located, will they fall to pieces, will they break up?
\n“Is this perchance to be no more? Is this to be all? It is perchance this way? Will the castigation abate no more, will thy annoyance, thy anger be reversed? Will thy wrath, thy annoyance, no more be placated? Have we perchance just been forsaken? Hath it perchance been ordained above us in the land of the dead—hath it perchance been declared? Perchance no longer is there castigation with icy water?1 Perchance no longer is there castigation with nettles? Perchance in truth now there will be darkness forever? Wilt thou no longer look back upon the common folk?2
\n“For—ah!—thus are they destroyed, those who are restless in sickness, who toss from side to side, who nowhere can do anything; whose teeth, whose mouths [are filled with] dirt. For darkness is fallen; all are
\nCf. Chap. 43.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”Es posible: que este açote, y este castigo no se nos da para nuestra correccion, y emjenda? sino para total destruycion, y asolacion? y que no a mas de resplendescer el sol, sobre nosotros? sino que estemos en perpetuas tinjeblas, y en eterno silencio: y que nunca mas nos aueys de mjrar, con ojos de mjsericordia, nj poco, nj mas?”↩