frescas y olorosas.
\nTambién de los mozuelos y mozuelas que mueren ante de tener experiencia de pecados ningunos y mueren en su inocencia, en su simplicidad y virginidad, dicen los viejos que éstos reciben grandes mercedes de nuestro señor Dios, porque son como piedras preciosas; porque van puros y limpios a la presencia de Dios.
\nOye otra manera de gente que son bienaventurados y son amados, y los llevan los dioses para sí, y son los niños que mueren en su tierna niñez. Son como unas piedras preciosas. Éstos no van a los lugares de espanto del Infierno, sino van a la casa del dios que se llama Tonacatecuhtli, que vive en los vergeles que se llaman Tonacacuauhtitlan, donde hay todas maneras de árboles y flores y frutas, y anda allí como zinzones, que son avecitas pequeñas de diversas colores que andan chupando las flores de los árboles. Y estos niños y niñas,
\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":"4bb391dc-87cb-4506-b142-29667fa601d7","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":"are always fresh and fragrant.\n\nAlso regarding the young men and women who die before experiencing any sort of sin and die in a state of innocence, simplicity, and virginity: the elders say that these ones receive great favors from our lord god, because they are like precious stones, because they go clean and pure in god’s presence.\n\nHear about another kind of people who are blessed and beloved; the gods take them for themselves, and they are the children who die in their tender childhood. They are like some precious stones. These ones do not go to the frightful places of hell but instead go to the house of the god called Tonacateuctli, who lives in the orchards called Tonacacuauhtitlan, where there are all kinds of trees, flowers, and fruit; and there they go about like _zinzones_,[^38] which are tiny little birds of various colors that go around sipping the trees’ flowers. And when these boys and girls\n\n\n[^38]: _zinzon_/_zinzones_: Sing./Pl. Hisp. of the Purepecha word tzintzuu; hummingbird(s)","html":"are always fresh and fragrant.
\nAlso regarding the young men and women who die before experiencing any sort of sin and die in a state of innocence, simplicity, and virginity: the elders say that these ones receive great favors from our lord god, because they are like precious stones, because they go clean and pure in god’s presence.
\nHear about another kind of people who are blessed and beloved; the gods take them for themselves, and they are the children who die in their tender childhood. They are like some precious stones. These ones do not go to the frightful places of hell but instead go to the house of the god called Tonacateuctli, who lives in the orchards called Tonacacuauhtitlan, where there are all kinds of trees, flowers, and fruit; and there they go about like zinzones,1 which are tiny little birds of various colors that go around sipping the trees’ flowers. And when these boys and girls
\nzinzon/zinzones: Sing./Pl. Hisp. of the Purepecha word tzintzuu; hummingbird(s)↩
[mj]toa. Oqujmotlaçoicnelili in totecujo: maqujztitiuh, chalchiuhtitiuh in telpuchtzintli, in jchpuchtzintli.
\nAuh oc izcatquj cencacamatl, in pialonj, in cujoanj, in caconj: ca mjtoa in coconetzitzinti momjqujlia chalchiuhti, teuxiuhti, maqujzti: in mjquj, amo vmpa vi in temamauhtica in jtzehecaia in mjctla: vmpa vi in tonacatecutli ichan, tonacaquauhtitlan in nemj, qujchichina in tonacaxuchitl, itech nemj in tonacaquavitl, itech tlachichina.
\nAmo çan nen o, nopiltze in cuezcomatl ijxpan toco coconetzitzinti, in pipiltzitzinti: ca iehoatl qujnezcaiotia in qualcan in ieccan vi: in jpampa in oc chalchiuhti, in oc maqujzti, in oc vel motqujticate teuxiuhti.
\nAuh oc izca achiton: ca in pipiltzitzinti, in coconetzitzinti, ca cenca tlaçotin tlaçotlalo, nêneco: y[pampa]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"b3b09840-1134-4465-bb25-dbb68e9f1f65","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":"it is said, our lord showed bounteous mercy. The tender youth, the tender maiden are like precious bracelets, like precious green stones.\n\n“And still here is a word to be guarded, to be taken, to be heard, for it is said that the children who die become as precious green stones, as precious turquoises, as precious bracelets. When they die they go not there where it is fearful, the place of sharp winds, the region of the dead. They go there to the home of Tonacatecutli; they live in the garden of Tonacatecutli, suck the flowers of Tonacatecutli, live by the tree of Tonacatecutli; by it they suck [the flowers].[^9]\n\n“It is not in vain, O my son, that children, babies are buried in front of the maize bin, for this signifieth that they go to a good place, a fine place, because they are still as precious green stones, still as precious bracelets; still pure, they become as precious turquoises.\n\n“And here is still a little: the babies, the children are very precious; they are beloved, desired, \n\n\n\n\n[^9]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”van a la casa del dios, que se llama tonacatecutli, que viue en los vergeles, que se llaman tonacaquauhtitlan, donde ay todas maneras de arboles, y flores, y frutas… .”*","html":"it is said, our lord showed bounteous mercy. The tender youth, the tender maiden are like precious bracelets, like precious green stones.
\n“And still here is a word to be guarded, to be taken, to be heard, for it is said that the children who die become as precious green stones, as precious turquoises, as precious bracelets. When they die they go not there where it is fearful, the place of sharp winds, the region of the dead. They go there to the home of Tonacatecutli; they live in the garden of Tonacatecutli, suck the flowers of Tonacatecutli, live by the tree of Tonacatecutli; by it they suck [the flowers].1
\n“It is not in vain, O my son, that children, babies are buried in front of the maize bin, for this signifieth that they go to a good place, a fine place, because they are still as precious green stones, still as precious bracelets; still pure, they become as precious turquoises.
\n“And here is still a little: the babies, the children are very precious; they are beloved, desired,
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”van a la casa del dios, que se llama tonacatecutli, que viue en los vergeles, que se llaman tonacaquauhtitlan, donde ay todas maneras de arboles, y flores, y frutas… .”↩