Lo primero que hacía el que hacía la fiesta o banquete era proveer que se hiciesen muchos tamales en su casa. Y daba el grandor que habían de tener. También se avenía con los que hacían tamales por los pueblos circunstantes para que truxesen tamales y gallinas a su casa para aquel día. Habiendo ya proveído de todo lo necesario, enviaba a llamar los doce pueblos para que supiesen el día del convite. Y primeramente ataviaban a los esclavos que habían de morir. Dábalos mantas y mastles a los hombres; y a las mujeres, sus huipiles y naoas con cortapisas. Y poníalos sus orejeras de cuero con sus pinjantes, y también bezotes corvos, con unos papeles que se llaman amapatlachtli, en las cuales estaban enjertos unos quetzales que se llaman quetzalyacahuitztli. Estaban atados los papeles y quetzales con hilos colorados a las orejas. Y poníanlos en las gargantas de los pies unos caracolitos mariscos enjeridos en unas tiras de cuero de tigres, como calzuelas, los cuales caracorillos colgaban de las calzuelas. También les colgaban
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\n“Skirts”: naguas.↩
Niman ie conpeoaltia in ipan tlatoa: inic mochioaz in icalitic, amo çan quesquich in mochioa tamalli, motamachioa inic ueuei, nouian tlapatiotiaia in altepetl ipan, in mochioaia tamallj oaltotollotiuh, inic oalcalaquia ichan.
\nAuh in omocēcauh in isquich monequiz: niman ie ic tenotzalo, in iancuican mocaquiz tlatolli, inic teiolmelaoaz in tealtiz: matlactli omome altepetl in quinotza.
\nAchtopa quinchichioa in itlaaltilhoan quinmaca in intech poui in tilmatli, ī mastlatl, in cueitl in uipilli, in cuetentli, conaquia in itenco: quiuicaltiaia cuetlasnacochtli, itipepeiocio, anoço tezçacanecuilli, quiuicaltia amapatlachtli quitotocaticac quetzaliacauitztli, chichilicpatica, in quicuicuitlalpiaia, in conaquiaia innacazco: ioan imicxic quitlalia in tzitzilli, iehoatl in oceloehoatl, itenco quitecaia coiolli, ontlapalisti in imicxic quimihilpiliaia, ioan petzotzocolli in inca[naoacan]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"79075f5d-1f1f-4e42-8ddf-99da2e300796","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":"#### Thirteenth Chapter. Here is told how they began the feast and what was then done.\n\nThen he who undertook [the banquet] began what now was to be done in his house. The many prepared tamales were specified as to certain sizes. All about in the cities were hired those who made tamales. They went with turkey hens to enter his home.\n\nAnd when all which would be required had been arranged, thereupon were summoned those who for the first time were to hear the information, so that he might announce to them that he would bathe slaves. He summoned [guests from] twelve cities.\n\nFirst he arrayed his bathed slaves. He gave them what pertained to them: the capes, the breech clouts, the skirts, the shifts along whose borders they had placed the trimming. He added leather ear plugs with their pendants, or long, curved labrets. He added crushed paper which they had sown with fine, pointed quetzal feathers, bound about with red cord to place them in their ears. And on their ankles he placed rattles; on the edges of [a band of] ocelot skin he laid shells. On each ankle he bound them on. And he tied “shining hair strands” about","html":"Then he who undertook [the banquet] began what now was to be done in his house. The many prepared tamales were specified as to certain sizes. All about in the cities were hired those who made tamales. They went with turkey hens to enter his home.
\nAnd when all which would be required had been arranged, thereupon were summoned those who for the first time were to hear the information, so that he might announce to them that he would bathe slaves. He summoned [guests from] twelve cities.
\nFirst he arrayed his bathed slaves. He gave them what pertained to them: the capes, the breech clouts, the skirts, the shifts along whose borders they had placed the trimming. He added leather ear plugs with their pendants, or long, curved labrets. He added crushed paper which they had sown with fine, pointed quetzal feathers, bound about with red cord to place them in their ears. And on their ankles he placed rattles; on the edges of [a band of] ocelot skin he laid shells. On each ankle he bound them on. And he tied “shining hair strands” about
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