aquí veis quiere hacer algún servicio y mostrar agradecimiento al señor dios Huitzilopuchtli, matando algunos esclavos en su presencia, por lo cual ha venido a convidaros. No hay otra cosa que deciros, más de lo que habéis oído, señores y principales y mercaderes."
\nHabiendo oído esto los mercaderes y principales mexicanos y tlatilulcanos, que son señores de aquellos doce pueblos, respondían lo que se sigue: "Señores nuestros, mercaderes, que estáis aquí presentes, ya hemos oído y entendido lo que venís a rogar con lágrimas y lloro. Ya hemos entendido el deseo de vuestros corazones que lo habéis traído secreto y guardado desde allá donde venís, que es el fruto de los trabajos desde señor mercader que nos viene a convidar. Esto es merced que recebimos y se nos hace por amor de nuestro señor Dios."
\nHabiendo hecho esta diligencia en convidar a todos los mercaderes y señores, este que hacía el banquete despedíase de la casa donde pasaba, y tomando su báculo ataviado con borlas de pluma rica veníase para su tierra, México y Tlatilulco.
\nwhom you see here wants to offer some service and show his gratitude to the lord god Huitzilopochtli by killing some slaves in his presence; and so he has come [here] to invite you. There is nothing else to tell you except what you—lords, nobles, and merchants—have already heard.”
\nOnce they heard this, the Tlatelolca and Mexican merchants and leaders, who are the lords of those twelve towns, would answer as follows: “Our lords, merchants, who are here present, we have already heard and understood what you have come to ask [from us] with tears and weeping. We have already understood your hearts’ desire, which you have kept secret and brought all the way from where you come, and it is the fruit of the efforts of this merchant lord who comes [here] to invite us. It is a gift that we accept and one that is granted to us by our lord god’s love.”
\nHaving fulfilled this formality of inviting all the merchants and lords, this person who was holding the banquet would take his leave from the house that he was visiting and, taking up his staff adorned with valuable feather tassels, would return to his own land, Mexico and Tlatelolco.
\ncontomiliznequi in icooauh in itotouh. O ca isquich in, in ticmocuilia: ic pachiui in moiollotzin, in tahoa in titepehoa: in tipuchtecatl in toztomecatl.
\nAuh niman ie ic quicuepa in tlatolli: in puchtecatlatoque in izquintin cecen altepetl ipan tlapachooa: teiacaiana, quitoa. Totecuioohoane puchtecae: ca nican anmonoltitoque, ca otoconanque, ca otoconcuique, in choquiztli, in ixaiotl: ca otocontlapouhque in toptli, in petlacalli, in oilpitoca, in otzacuitoca, in ipatiuh in quauhtli, in ocelotl, ca nican tontlachia ipaltzinco in tlacatl totecuio, in tloque naoaque: otechmocnelili.
\nAuh in ie isquich: nimã ie ic tlanaoatia in īchan puchteca, niman ie ic oalpeoa quitquitiuitz in ihuitopilli iez: auh in oacito in ichã in nican mexico.
\nhe wisheth to behead for him one of his slaves.1 Behold all this which you are to take to appease your hearts, you who are inhabitants of the cities; you who are merchants, vanguard merchants.”
\nAnd thereupon the leading merchants, the leaders who governed in each of the cities,2 responded to the words. They said: “O our lords, O merchants who are here present, we have received, we have accepted the weeping, the tears. For you have revealed that which in secret hath lain bound up, enclosed: the reward of the eagle [and] ocelot warriors. For here we contemplate that which hath been accorded us by the grace of the master, our lord, the protector of all.”
\nAnd when it was finished, thereupon [the host] took his leave of the house of the merchants. Then he set forth taking that which would be the feathered staff.3 And then he came to reach his home here in Mexico.4
\nConcotoniliznequi, in the Acad. Hist. MS. The phrase is metaphorical.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”los mercaderes, y principales Mexicanos, y tlatilulcanos, que son señores de aquellos doze pueblos.” Teiacaiana: teyacana, in the Acad. Hist. MS.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”baculo, ataujado, con borlas de pluma rica.”↩
Ibid.: ”venjase para su tierra Mexico, y tlatilulco.” After Mexico, the Acad. Hist. MS has tlatilolco.↩