brazaletes hechos con plumas ricas y pellones de pluma, y cargas de cacao. El juego de la pelota se llamaba tlachtli, que eran dos paredes, que había entre la una y la otra como veinte o treinta pies, y serían de largo hasta cuarenta o cincuenta pies. Estaban muy encaladas las paredes y el suelo, y tendrían de alto como estado y medio. Y en el medio del juego estaba una raya que hacía al propósito del juego, y en el medio de las paredes, en la mitad del trecho del juego, estaban dos piedras como muelas de molino, agujeradas por el medio, frontero la una de la otra, y tenían sendos agujeros tan anchos que podía caber la pelota por cada uno dellos. Y el que metía la pelota por allí ganaba el juego. No jugaban con las manos, sino con las nalgas herían a la pelota. Traían para jugar unos guantes en las manos, y una cincha de cuero en las nalgas, para herir a la pelota.
\nTambién dos señores, por su pasatiempo, jugaban un juego que se llama patolli, que es como el juego de castro o alcherque, o casi, o como el juego de los dados. Y son cuatro frisoles grandes, y cada uno tiene un agujero. Y arrójanlos con la mano sobre un petate, como quien juega los carnicoles, donde está hecha una figura. A este juego solían jugar y ganarse cosas preciosas, como cuentas de oro, piedras preciosas, turquesas muy finas. Y este juego y el de la pelota hanlo
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\nTwo lords would also play a game called patolli for their pastime, which is more or less like the game of hopscotch or alquerque,2 or like the game of dice. And it consists of four large beans with a hole in each one of them. And they use their hand to throw these on a petate3—like someone playing knucklebones4—that has a design drawn on it. They would play this game often and wager precious things such as gold beads, precious stones, [and] very fine turquoise. And they have abandoned both this game and the ball game
\n“Sixteen and a half feet”: estado y medio. One estadal measured 10.97 feet.↩
“Like the game of hopscotch or alquerque”: como el juego del castro o alcherque. El juego del castro is hopscotch, and alquerque (or alcherque) is a precursor of the game of checkers. The game of patolli is quite similar to the game of Parcheesi. LAGQ reads alcherque here (2:745) but alquerque below (2:770).↩
petate: Sahagún here uses the Hipanicized form of the word petlatl (reed mat). The corresponding Nahuatl text reads patolpetlatl (patolli mat).↩
“Like someone playing knucklebones”: como quien juega los carnicoles. The carnícoles game was also known in Spain as las tabas. The game was similar to the modern game of jackstones.↩
in jtech tlachmatl, vntetl tlachtemalacatl manca, in aqujn ollamanj vncan tlacalaquja, vncan qujcalaquja olli: njman ic qujtlanj in jxqujch tlaçotli tlatqujtl, auh muchintin qujntlanj, in jxqujchtin tetlatlattaque, in vncan tlachco: itlaujcallo in olli, maieoatl, nelpilonj, queçeoatl.
\nPatoa ica aiecotli, vevej etl nauhtetl in tlaixcoionjlli injc motlanj immatica in qujchaiaoa in nauhtetl etl, qujcujloa ce petlatl, tliltica, papatlactic in tlilli, injc mjcujloa patolpetlatl, in vncan mopouhtiuh tlapoaltetl matlactetl omome chichiquacentetl imaxca intlapoalteuh icecemme in jxnamjquj in motlanj in patoa, qujtlanjlia in ixqujch tlaçotli, coztic teucujtlacozcatl, chalchiujtl, teuxiujtl, matzopetztli ipan ca chalchiujtl ololiuhquj anoço teuxiujtl, quetzalli, tlacotli, calli, mjlli, tlaçotilmatli, pepechtli, veuej tilmatli: chalchiuhtentetl, teucujtla[nacochtli,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"334c9b7b-ebfd-48e1-8926-c7c9850343ce","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":"on the walls were two stone, ball court rings. He who played caused [the ball] to enter there; he caused it to go in. Then he won all the costly goods, and he won everything from all who watched there in the ball court. His equipment was the rubber ball, the leather gloves, girdles, and leather hip guards.\n\n*Patolli* was played with large beans—four large beans with holes bored into the surfaces. The game was won when from their hands they scattered the four beans on a mat painted in widely spaced black [lines], with which the *patolli* mat was designed. There went to be added the counters—twelve [of them], six the property of each, the counters of each of the contenders. He who won in playing *patolli*, won[^2] all the costly goods: golden necklaces, green stone, fine turquoise, bracelets on which were round, green stones or fine turquoise, quetzal feathers, slaves, houses, fields, precious capes, mats, large capes, green stone lip plugs, \n\n\n\n\n[^2]: The *Real Academia de la Historia MS* reads *quitlanitoa* (he wagered) instead of *qujtlanjlia*.","html":"on the walls were two stone, ball court rings. He who played caused [the ball] to enter there; he caused it to go in. Then he won all the costly goods, and he won everything from all who watched there in the ball court. His equipment was the rubber ball, the leather gloves, girdles, and leather hip guards.
\nPatolli was played with large beans—four large beans with holes bored into the surfaces. The game was won when from their hands they scattered the four beans on a mat painted in widely spaced black [lines], with which the patolli mat was designed. There went to be added the counters—twelve [of them], six the property of each, the counters of each of the contenders. He who won in playing patolli, won1 all the costly goods: golden necklaces, green stone, fine turquoise, bracelets on which were round, green stones or fine turquoise, quetzal feathers, slaves, houses, fields, precious capes, mats, large capes, green stone lip plugs,
\nThe Real Academia de la Historia MS reads quitlanitoa (he wagered) instead of qujtlanjlia.↩