Cuando alguno hace convite que se llama tecuanotzaliztli, ordénanse los convidados en sus asientos desta manera: siéntanse todos juntos a las paredes, en sus petates y icpales. A la mano derecha se sientan la gente mas principal por sus grados y orden de su principalidad, como son entre los mercaderes pochtecatlatoque; y a la otra parte, que es la mano izquierda, se asientan los que no son tan principales, por los grados y orden de su principalidad, como es entre los mercaderes de aquellos que llaman nahualoztoméca; las estremidades destas dos partes ocupan los mancebos, ordenados por su principalidad.
\nEl que primero habla, respondiendo a la plática que hizo el que los convidó, es el principal que está en el primero asiento de la mano derecha, y dice desta manera: "Está muy bien dicho lo que habéis dicho. En vuestra presencia habemos oído y entendido vuestras palabras. Deseamos los que aquí estamos que vuestro camino que agora queréis comenzar, sea próspero y que ninguna cosa adversa se os ofrezca en vuestro viaje. Id en paz y poco a poco, ansí por los llanos como por
\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":"751573e3-6c15-4826-922d-ab787d089cb9","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":"When someone organizes a feast called Tecuanotzaliztli, the guests are arranged in their seats in this way:[^25] they all sit against the walls on their _petates_ and _icpales_.[^26] The most important people sit on the right side according to their rank and the level of their nobility, such as among the _pochtecatlatoque_ merchants. And on the other side—that is, on the left—sit those who are not as important, according to the rank and level of their nobility, such as among those merchants who are called _nahualoztomecah_. The young men occupy the ends of these two sides and are arranged according to their nobility.\n\nThe first to speak, in response to the host’s speech, is the leader who is seated in the first seat on the right, and he speaks in this way: “What you have just said is very well said, indeed. In your presence, we have listened and understood your words. Those us of who are here wish that the journey that you now wish to begin may be prosperous and that you may not encounter any adversity during your travels. Go in peace, one step at a time, both in the plains and in \n\n\n[^25]: The tense in this paragraph switches to the present.\n\n[^26]: _petates_, _icpales_: Both nouns are plural Hispanicized forms of the Nahuatl words _petlatl_ (straw mat) and _icpalli_ (chair).","html":"When someone organizes a feast called Tecuanotzaliztli, the guests are arranged in their seats in this way:1 they all sit against the walls on their petates and icpales.2 The most important people sit on the right side according to their rank and the level of their nobility, such as among the pochtecatlatoque merchants. And on the other side—that is, on the left—sit those who are not as important, according to the rank and level of their nobility, such as among those merchants who are called nahualoztomecah. The young men occupy the ends of these two sides and are arranged according to their nobility.
\nThe first to speak, in response to the host’s speech, is the leader who is seated in the first seat on the right, and he speaks in this way: “What you have just said is very well said, indeed. In your presence, we have listened and understood your words. Those us of who are here wish that the journey that you now wish to begin may be prosperous and that you may not encounter any adversity during your travels. Go in peace, one step at a time, both in the plains and in
\n[chicuacen]petlame, cecenme teiacanque tlapachoa.
\nJn icoac campa tlacamacho, cohoanotzalo: inic onoque tecpantoque, tlaiaoalotoque, centlapal in calmaieticate in puchtecatlatoque: auh no centlapal, in calmaieticate, in naoaloztomeca, in iaupan teiaoaloani, tecpantoque: ça tlatzacutoque in telpupuchti:
\nAuh in iehoatl in uel teiacantica in puchtecatlato, iacattiuh in quitlatlauhtia, quilhuia. Ca ie qualli, ca nican tica, ca otoconanque ca otoconcuique: auh ca otoncacque, in mihiio, in motlatol, ma iiolic xocona in mocxi, ca ie toconnamiquiz in ce coatl vtli melaoac: ma cana toconicxinamic in tecoatl, in quauhcoatl, in tlacotzontli, in çacatzontli: ma iiolic xocontoca in teutlalli, in istlaoatl: aço cana mitzpopoloz in totecuio, in tloque, naoaque,
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a0e41450-7e47-462b-8c39-1e9e3eb2afe7","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":"six[^18] *calpulli* leaders, who each ruled [and] governed, responded to his words.\n\nWhen somewhere there were riches [and] the invitation of guests, thus they remained seated by rank, in order:[^19] at one side, by the wall on one side, were the principal merchants; and likewise at one side, by the wall on [the other] side, were the disguised merchants, the spying merchants in warlike places, seated in order. Closing in [the ends] were the youths.[^20]\n\nAnd the one who was in the very leading position, the principal merchant, came out ahead; he besought, he said to [the host]: “It is well that thou art here. For we have accepted, taken, and heard thy discourse. Be careful in taking to travel, for already thou wilt meet One Serpent, the straight way. Thou mayest somewhere, set foot on the rocky way [or] the mountain trail,[^21] [or] with the gods of the road. Travel with care in the plain, in the desert, lest our lord, the protector of all, \n\n\n\n\n[^18]: Seven *calpulli* are listed, although the Aztec text reads “six.”\n\n\n[^19]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”Quando alguno haze combite que se llama tecuanotzaliztli ordenanse los combidados en sus asientos desta manera.”*\n\n\n[^20]: *Ibid*.:* “sientanse todos juntos a las paredes en sus petates, y icpales a la mano derecha se sientan la gente mas principal por sus grados, y orden de su principalidad como son entre los mercaderes pochtecatlatoque, y a la otra parte que es la mano yzquierda, se asientan los que no son tan principales por los grados, y orden de su principalidad, como es entre los mercaderes de aquellos que llaman naoaloztomeca*:* las estremidades destas dos partes ocupan los mancebos ordenados por su principalidad.”*\n\n\n[^21]: Cf. *Acad. Hist. MS*, in which a gloss in Sahagún’s hand describes *tecuatl* as *camyno pedregoso* and *quauhcoatl* as *camyno mõtañoso*.","html":"six1 calpulli leaders, who each ruled [and] governed, responded to his words.
\nWhen somewhere there were riches [and] the invitation of guests, thus they remained seated by rank, in order:2 at one side, by the wall on one side, were the principal merchants; and likewise at one side, by the wall on [the other] side, were the disguised merchants, the spying merchants in warlike places, seated in order. Closing in [the ends] were the youths.3
\nAnd the one who was in the very leading position, the principal merchant, came out ahead; he besought, he said to [the host]: “It is well that thou art here. For we have accepted, taken, and heard thy discourse. Be careful in taking to travel, for already thou wilt meet One Serpent, the straight way. Thou mayest somewhere, set foot on the rocky way [or] the mountain trail,4 [or] with the gods of the road. Travel with care in the plain, in the desert, lest our lord, the protector of all,
\nSeven calpulli are listed, although the Aztec text reads “six.”↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”Quando alguno haze combite que se llama tecuanotzaliztli ordenanse los combidados en sus asientos desta manera.”↩
Ibid.:* “sientanse todos juntos a las paredes en sus petates, y icpales a la mano derecha se sientan la gente mas principal por sus grados, y orden de su principalidad como son entre los mercaderes pochtecatlatoque, y a la otra parte que es la mano yzquierda, se asientan los que no son tan principales por los grados, y orden de su principalidad, como es entre los mercaderes de aquellos que llaman naoaloztomeca: las estremidades destas dos partes ocupan los mancebos ordenados por su principalidad.”*↩
Cf. Acad. Hist. MS, in which a gloss in Sahagún’s hand describes tecuatl as camyno pedregoso and quauhcoatl as camyno mõtañoso.↩