de cada nombre o figura hasta los trece. Y acabados cincuenta y dos años, tornaba la cuenta a ce tochtli.
\nÁcatl, que es "la caña", figura dedicada era al oriente, que llamaban tlapcopa, id est tlahuilcopa, casi "hacia la lumbre o al Sol". Técpatl, que es "pedernal", figura era dedicada a mictlampa, casi "hacia el Infierno", porque creían que a la parte de septentrión los difunctos se iban, por lo cual en la superstición que hacían a los difuntos cubiertos con las mantas y atados los cuerpos, haciánlos asentar vuelta la cara a septentrión o mictlampa. La cuarta figura era "la casa", y era dedicada para occidente o poniente, al cual llamaban cihuatlampa, que es casi "hacia la casa de las mujeres", porque tenían opinión que en el poniente viven las mujeres difunctas, que son diosas. Y en el [orie]nte viven [los ho]mbres [viven] los hombres [sic] [san]ctos que [viven] en la casa del S[ol], desde [el ori]ente le [v]an haciendo [f]iesta al Sol [cada] día que sa[le], hasta llegar [al] medio día. [La]s mujeres [de]functas que [lla]man cihuapi[pilt]in, que las [tie]nen por dio[sas], parten del [occi]dente y van[le a] recebir al [me]diodía, y [llév]anle con fiesta hasta el occidente.1
\nAnsí que cada una de las dichas cuatro figuras por la dicha orden, de trece en trece años, comienzan la cuenta de los años. Y todas las cuatro, multiplicándose, llegan al número treceno, diciendo: ce tochtli, ume ácatl, ei técpatl, nahui calli, 5 tochtli, 6 ácatl, 7 técpatl, 8 calli, etcétera, y con trece veces cuatro se concluyen los cincuenta y dos años.
\nSe suplen entre corchetes las letras que fueron cortadas al margen izquierdo.↩
of each name or figure keep multiplying until they reach thirteen. And when [a cycle] of fifty-two years is complete, the count would go back to Ce Tochtli.
\nAcatl, which means “reed,” was the figure dedicated to the east, which they called Tlapcopa, that is, Tlahuilcopa, [which means] something like “in the direction of the light or the sun.” Tecpatl, which means “flint,” was the figure dedicated to Mictlampa, [which means] something like “in the direction of hell,” because they believed that the dead went to the north. This is why during the superstition that they practiced for the dead, whose bodies were bound and wrapped in blankets, they would seat them with their face turned toward the north, or Mictlampa.
\nThe fourth figure was the House, which was dedicated to the west, or Occident, which they called Cihuatlampa, which means something like “in the direction of the women’s house,” because they were of the opinion that the dead women who are goddesses live in the west.1 And the men live in the east. The holy men who live in the house of the sun keep celebrating the sun,2 as it rises each day in the east, until it reaches [its zenith] at noon. The dead women whom they call Cihuapipiltin, whom they consider to be goddesses, depart from the west, go to receive [the sun] at noon, and carry it in celebration all the way to the west.3
\nAnd this is how each of these four figures begins the count of the years by following this order every thirteen years. And all four of them, multiplying themselves, reach the number thirteen, calling [them]: Ce Tochtli, Ome Acatl, Yei Tecpatl, Nahui Calli, 5 Tochtli, 6 Acatl, 7 Tecpatl, 8 Calli, et cetera. And by multiplying thirteen by four, the [cycle of] fifty-two years is completed.
\nThe lines of text following this one were omitted by the scribe, who provided them in a gloss, with many abbreviations, on the left margin of the page.↩
“Keep celebrating the sun”: van haciendo fiesta al Sol. The Spanish phrase gives the sense of a dancing and singing in celebration.↩
The marginal gloss ends here.↩
Auh inic naui, tlanauhcaiotia, xiuhtonalli: iehoatl in calli moteneoa, cioatlampa tonalli. Ipãpan iuh quitoaia, cioatlampa: quilmach, çan muchi cioa umpa onoque, aocaque toquichtin.
\nInin nauhteme xiuhtonaltin, xiuhtlapoaltin: izquiteme ceceppa moquetztiui, tonalpeuhcaiome muchiuhtiuj.
\nInic muchi matlatlacxiuitl omeei, quitlamja, conaxitia, quitzonquistia nauhteistin: inic tlaiaoalotiui, quimomacatiui, quimocauilitiui, intequiuh, cecexiuhtica: iehoatl itech onaci, itech õmocaoa, itech ontzopi, itech ontlatzotzona, ontlatzonquistia in matlactlomei calli, cioatlampa tonalli. q. n. ie ocaxiti in matlacxiuitl omei itequiuh.
\nAuh niman ic oalmoquetza in ce tochtli: uitztlampa tonalli. In icoac, y, moquetza, in quipeoaltia itequiuh, inic ce xiuitl tlauicaz, tlaotlatoctiz: cenca nemauhtiloia, tlatēmachoia, netēmachoa: ipampa, in ipan muchioa[ia]
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