[hu]mo, tomaban la caña en la mano derecha, no por la caña que estaba descubierta, sino por la parte que estaba cubierta con el carbón; y en la mano izquierda llevaban el plato sobre que se había de poner la caña, que se llama yiecáxitl. Primeramente daban la caña, y hablaban al que la tomaba, diciéndole: "Señor mío, véis aquí esta caña de perfumes." Y el otro la tomaba y la ponía entre los dedos, y la comenzaba a chupar. Esta cortesía que se hacía, y esta manera de crianza, retraía la manera de tomar y tirar los dardos que usaban tirar en la guerra; con aquel aire y ademán que se usaba en tirar los dardos en la guerra se daba y tomaba la caña de perfumes. Y el plato retraía a la rodela que se traía en la mano izquierda. Llevaban el plato de canto, de la manera que anda la rodela en la mano izquierda. Y ansí le ponían delante el principal a quien le daban o ora fuese tlacatéccatl, o ora tlacochcálcatl, o ora atempanécatl, y los demás principales que se llamaban cuauhyacame o pipilti, y todos los demás convidados.
\nDespués desto dánseles flores. Lleva la flor en la mano derecha, que se [\nlla[ma]
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\nAfter this, flowers are given to them. In his right hand,3 he is carrying the flower called
\n“And [then] throw . . . battle”: y tirar los dardos los dardos que usaban tirar en la guerra. The Nahuatl text specifies that these darts were the ones shot with the ahtlatl (spear thrower).↩
pipiltin: pipilti in LAGQ.↩
Here the text switches from using plural pronouns (“they/them”) to the singular “he/him,” because the Nahua informant is describing a picture to the scribes who write down his words. The text fluctuates between the singular and the plural in the following paragraph as well.↩
in teiiemaca: imaiauhcampa in quitqui in iietl inic quitzitzquia, oncan in ipan tlapepechollo, amo ipan in acatl. Auh in iopuchcopa quitquitiuh in iecaxitl iacachto contemaca in ietl, quitoa Nopiltzintzine nican catqui macatzin: niman quioalcuilia imapiltzalã quiteca, inic quichichina, quinezcaiotia in atlatl, in anoço tlatzontectli, in iautlatquitl, in oquichtiliztli. Auh in iecaxitl quinezcaiotia in chimalli: ipampa in iopuchcopa quitqui, çan inacacic quimantiuh inic quitqui: ispã conmanilia, in aço tlacateccatl, in anoço tlacochcalcatl, aço atēpanecatl, in ie mochintin tlatoque: ioan quauhiacame anoço pipilti, in ie isquich tlacatl tlanotzalli.
\nAuh niman iehehoatl quitoquilia in suchitl inic quitqui imaiauhcampa in quitzitzquia in chimalsuchitl: auh in iopuchcopa onpa quitzitzquia in quauhsuchitl: ipampa in ompa quitzitzquia in ima[iauhcan.]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"40285856-96ab-41a0-9722-3077b4e34761","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":"tobacco server,[^4] to perform his task, bore the tobacco [tube] in his right hand; thus he held it: there where it was sealed off; not by the tube [end]:[^5] And he went bearing the bowl for the tobacco tubes in his left hand. First he offered one the tobacco tube. He said: “My beloved noble, here is thy cane of tobacco.” Then [the guest] took it up; he placed it between his fingers to smoke it. This denoted the spear thrower or the spear; war equipment; valor. And the bowl for tobacco tubes stood for the shield, wherefore he bore it in his left hand. He went holding it only by its rim, to carry it. He laid it before perhaps the commanding general, or the general; perhaps the *atempanecatl*;[^6] all the lords, and the eagle warrior guides, or the noblemen: indeed all who were invited.\n\nAnd then they followed with the flowers. To carry them one held in his right hand the “shield flower,”[^7] and there in his left he grasped the “stick flower.”[^8] For this reason did he hold [the “shield flower”] \n\n\n\n\n[^4]: *Ibid*.: *”dauan las cañas de humo.”*\n\n\n[^5]: *Ibid*.: *”tomavan la caña, en la mano derecha*: *no por la caña que estaua descubierta, sino por la parte que estaua con el carbon.”*\n\n\n[^6]: See Chap. 10, n. 10.\n\n\n[^7]: *Chimalxochitl*: probably *Helianthus annuus* L., in Sahagún (Garibay ed.), Vol. IV, p. 334.\n\n\n[^8]: *Quauhxochitl*: *”Planta parasitaria, usada como medicina… . Indefinida,”* in *ibid*., p. 350. Santamaría, *op. cit*., Vol. I, p. 421, defines it, however, as *”Otro nombre vulgar que en Méjico se da a la planta apocinácea conocida también por* Tabasqueña (Plumeria rubra).”","html":"tobacco server,1 to perform his task, bore the tobacco [tube] in his right hand; thus he held it: there where it was sealed off; not by the tube [end]:2 And he went bearing the bowl for the tobacco tubes in his left hand. First he offered one the tobacco tube. He said: “My beloved noble, here is thy cane of tobacco.” Then [the guest] took it up; he placed it between his fingers to smoke it. This denoted the spear thrower or the spear; war equipment; valor. And the bowl for tobacco tubes stood for the shield, wherefore he bore it in his left hand. He went holding it only by its rim, to carry it. He laid it before perhaps the commanding general, or the general; perhaps the atempanecatl;3 all the lords, and the eagle warrior guides, or the noblemen: indeed all who were invited.
\nAnd then they followed with the flowers. To carry them one held in his right hand the “shield flower,”4 and there in his left he grasped the “stick flower.”5 For this reason did he hold [the “shield flower”]
\nIbid.: ”dauan las cañas de humo.”↩
Ibid.: ”tomavan la caña, en la mano derecha: no por la caña que estaua descubierta, sino por la parte que estaua con el carbon.”↩
See Chap. 10, n. 10.↩
Chimalxochitl: probably Helianthus annuus L., in Sahagún (Garibay ed.), Vol. IV, p. 334.↩
Quauhxochitl: ”Planta parasitaria, usada como medicina… . Indefinida,” in ibid., p. 350. Santamaría, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 421, defines it, however, as ”Otro nombre vulgar que en Méjico se da a la planta apocinácea conocida también por Tabasqueña (Plumeria rubra).”↩