Hijo mío muy amado y muy querido, nota lo que te diré. Nuestro señor te ha traído en esta hora donde te quiero hablar cerca de lo que debes guardar todos los días de tu vida. Y esto hago porque eres mi hijo muy amado y muy estimado, más que toda piedra preciosa, más que toda pluma rica, que no tengo más que a ti. Tú eres el primero y el segundo y el postrero. He acordado, he pensado de decirte algunas cosas que te cumple, por la obligación que te tengo, que soy tu padre y madre. Quiero hacer mi deber, porque si mañana o esotro día Dios me llevare y quitare de sobre la tierra, porque es todopoderoso, porque estamos subjectos a la flaqueza humana y a la muerte, y nuestra vida sobre la tierra es muy incierta.
\nPues, hijo mío, nota y entiende lo que te diré. Vivas muchos días sobre la tierra en servicio de Dios, y seas bienaventurado. Mira que seas avisado, porque este mundo es muy peligroso, muy dificultoso y muy desasosegado, y muy cruel y temeroso, y muy trabajoso.
\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":"5b8ac76d-f223-4833-96f2-11386ce9c25c","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":"My very beloved and very dear son, take note of what I am about to tell you. Our lord has brought you here at this hour when I wish to speak about what you must keep [in mind] every day of your life. And I am doing this because you are my very beloved and cherished son, more so than any precious stone, more so than any valuable feather, for I have nothing else but you. You are the first, the second, and the last one.\n\nI have determined and thought about telling you some things that concern you because of the obligation that I have for you, for I am your father and mother.[^34] I want to perform my duty in case god carries me away tomorrow or the next day and removes me from the earth, because he is all-powerful, because we are subject to human frailty and to death, and [because] our life on earth is very uncertain.\n\nTherefore, my son, take note, and understand what I will tell you: May you live many days on earth in god’s service, and may you be fortunate. Take care to be smart, because this world is very dangerous, very difficult, full of anxieties, very cruel and frightful, and very troublesome. \n\n\n[^34]: “For I am your father and mother”: _que soy tu padre y madre_. Here Sahagún is translating the Nahuatl _in nonanyo, in notayo_ (my motherhood, my fatherhood), the _difrasismo_ in which the father, like the sun, synthesizes in his person the dual aspect of universal authority and power.","html":"My very beloved and very dear son, take note of what I am about to tell you. Our lord has brought you here at this hour when I wish to speak about what you must keep [in mind] every day of your life. And I am doing this because you are my very beloved and cherished son, more so than any precious stone, more so than any valuable feather, for I have nothing else but you. You are the first, the second, and the last one.
\nI have determined and thought about telling you some things that concern you because of the obligation that I have for you, for I am your father and mother.1 I want to perform my duty in case god carries me away tomorrow or the next day and removes me from the earth, because he is all-powerful, because we are subject to human frailty and to death, and [because] our life on earth is very uncertain.
\nTherefore, my son, take note, and understand what I will tell you: May you live many days on earth in god’s service, and may you be fortunate. Take care to be smart, because this world is very dangerous, very difficult, full of anxieties, very cruel and frightful, and very troublesome.
\n“For I am your father and mother”: que soy tu padre y madre. Here Sahagún is translating the Nahuatl in nonanyo, in notayo (my motherhood, my fatherhood), the difrasismo in which the father, like the sun, synthesizes in his person the dual aspect of universal authority and power.↩
Nopiltze, notelpuchtze, xolotze, xoloatze: tla xicmocaqujti, ca njcan mjtzalmotlalilia in totecujo. Auh in axcan ca cententica, cencamatica njmjtznotza, njmjtztzatzilia, in tinopiltzin, in tinoconeuh, in tinocozquj, in tinoquetzal, in tinoteach, in tinotlacoeoauh, in tinoxocoiouh. Ca in axcan njciocoia, njqujtoa: a njqujlnamjquj, in njmjtzmacaz, in cententli, in cencamatl in nonãio, in notaio: a nonequjxtil njcchioaz, a ma muztla, ma viptla, techtlati in totecujo, in tloque, naoaque: mach aiac tlaquaoac qujmati, aiac hetic: mach amo nellin tinemj tlalticpac.
\nAuh injn tla xicmocujli, tla xicmocaqujti, ma achi tictoqujli in totecujo, ma tinen in tlalticpac, ma ça tivecaoa cenca cenca tle ticmati, cenca moiolic, cenca xitlachia: mach tetzauhoujca, mach vellailtitlan,
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"7f3fcf57-4808-41c5-9229-894a14576f76","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":"“O my son, O my youth, O boy, O servitor, listen, for our lord hath placed thee here. And now, to thee who art my son, who art my child, who art my precious necklace, who art my precious feather, who art my oldest, my second,[^1] my youngest son,[^2] I speak, I call out a word or two. Verily, now I form, I say, I reflect upon the word or two which I shall give thee of my motherhood, of my fatherhood. I shall perform my obligation, lest tomorrow, the next day, our lord, the lord of the near, of the nigh, will have hidden us. Certainly no one enjoyeth the hard, the heavy. Certainly our living on earth is not assured.\n\n“And grasp this, hear this: May thou follow our lord for a little while. May thou live on earth. May thou linger long. Give utmost[^3] attention. Be deliberate. Take much care. Certainly it is a dangerous place, a revolting place, \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: *tinotlacoeoauh. Tlacoyeua* means “appears in the middle.” It may mean second or third child, depending upon the number of children. As “second,” see Siméon, *Dictionnaire*, p. 518 (*tlacoyeua*; note also p. 515, *tlacoeua*). As “third,” see Anderson and Dibble: *Florentine Codex*, Book I, “The Gods,” Chap. 13, and Book VII, “The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years,” Chap. 2.\n\n\n[^2]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”tu eres el primero, y el segundo, y el postrero.”*\n\n\n[^3]: *cenca* is repeated in the MS.","html":"“O my son, O my youth, O boy, O servitor, listen, for our lord hath placed thee here. And now, to thee who art my son, who art my child, who art my precious necklace, who art my precious feather, who art my oldest, my second,1 my youngest son,2 I speak, I call out a word or two. Verily, now I form, I say, I reflect upon the word or two which I shall give thee of my motherhood, of my fatherhood. I shall perform my obligation, lest tomorrow, the next day, our lord, the lord of the near, of the nigh, will have hidden us. Certainly no one enjoyeth the hard, the heavy. Certainly our living on earth is not assured.
\n“And grasp this, hear this: May thou follow our lord for a little while. May thou live on earth. May thou linger long. Give utmost3 attention. Be deliberate. Take much care. Certainly it is a dangerous place, a revolting place,
\ntinotlacoeoauh. Tlacoyeua means “appears in the middle.” It may mean second or third child, depending upon the number of children. As “second,” see Siméon, Dictionnaire, p. 518 (tlacoyeua; note also p. 515, tlacoeua). As “third,” see Anderson and Dibble: Florentine Codex, Book I, “The Gods,” Chap. 13, and Book VII, “The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Years,” Chap. 2.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”tu eres el primero, y el segundo, y el postrero.”↩
cenca is repeated in the MS.↩