[descen]dían estos que eran los señores de la fiesta. Y llegando abaxo, y aquellos que estaban ajornalados de los señores de la fiesta para que los ayudasen, tomaban los esclavos ya muertos, y llevábanlos a su casa, yéndose con los dichos señores de la fiesta.
\nY en llegando los mismos, aderezaban el cuerpo que llamaban tlaaltilli. Y cocíanle. Primero cocían el maíz que habían de dar juntamente con la carne. Y de la carne daban poca, sobre el maíz puesta. Ningún chilli se mezclaba con la cocina ni con la carne. Solamente sal. Comían esta carne los que hacían el banquete y sus parientes. Desta manera dicha hacían banquete los mercaderes en la fiesta de panquetzaliztli. Y estos que hacían este banquete, todos los días que vivían guardaban los atavíos de aquellos esclavos que habían muerto, teniéndolos en una petaca guardados para memoria de aquella hazaña. Los atavíos eran las mantas y los mastles y las cotaras de los hombres, y las noas y huipiles y los demás aderezos de las mujeres. También los cabellos que habían arrancado de la coronilla de la cabeza estaban guardados con lo demás en esta divina petaca. Y cuando moría este que hizo el banquete, quemaban estas petacas con los atavíos que en ellos estaban a sus exequias.
\nAnd upon reaching the bottom, the ones who had been hired to help the lords of the feast would take the slaves [who were] already dead and carry them to their houses,1 setting off, along with these lords of the feast.
\nAnd as soon as they all arrived, they would proceed to season the body that they called tlaaltili. And they would cook it. First, they cooked the maize that was to be served along with the meat. And they would only serve a little bit of meat, which was served on top of the maize. No chilli was mixed with the cooked dish or with the meat—only salt. The ones who were holding the banquet and their relatives would eat this meat. In this manner just described, the merchants would hold a banquet during the festival of Panquetzaliztli. And the ones who were holding this banquet would keep the clothes of those slaves they had killed for the rest of their lives, keeping them safe inside a petaca,2 as a remembrance of that feat. The clothing consisted of the men’s capes, mastles, and sandals; and the women’s skirts,3 huipiles, and other adornments. The hairs that they had pulled off the crown of the [victim’s] head were also kept inside this divine petaca, along with the other things. And when the one who held the banquet died, they would burn these petacas, along with the clothing inside of them, during his funeral.
\n[Vitzi]lobuchtli ça ceppa in quioaliaoaloa, mochi tlacatl quimonitta in tlatzintlan mani:
\nniman ie ic oaltemo, in oacico tlatzintlan, in ooaltemoc: in iehoantin quipaleuia tealtiani, oquiuiquilique in ichan in inacaio itlaaltil: niman ie ic iauh in ichan.
\nAuh in ooia: niman hiciuhca quichichiuilia in itlaaltil, quipaoaci: nonqua quipaoaci in tlaolli, in ipan quitemacaia, çan isco quitlatlaliaia achitoton: atle chilli quinamiquia, çan iio iztatl quipoeliaia: uel isquichtin quiquaia in ioaiolque.
\nO ca ihui, in, in mochioaia in ie uecauh inic tealtiaia in ipan panquetzaliztli.\nIn aquin iuh quichioaia, y, in tealtiaia: in quesquich cauitl tlalticpac oc nemia, isquich cauitl quipiaia in itepetlacal: in uncan quipiaia intlatqui in itlaaltilhoan catca: in inechichioaliz in isquich omito, in tilmatli, in mastlatl, in cactli, in cueitl, in uipilli, in ie mochi: atle mocaoa, mochi uel quimopieltia in ie isquich inpantzon quiteupetlacaltemaia. Auh quinicoac intla omic in tealtiani: ipan quitlatiaia.
\nUitzilopochtli. Only once they circled [the image]. All those spread out at the [pyramid] base watched them.
\nThereupon [the slave owner] descended. When he had come to reach the bottom, when he had descended, they who helped the bather of slaves carried home for him the body of his bathed slave. Thereupon [the slave owner] went to his home.
\nAnd when he had gone [home], then they quickly prepared his bathed one. They cooked him in an olla. Separately, in an olla, they cooked the grains of maize. They served [his flesh] on it. They placed only a little on top of it. No chili did they add to it; they only sprinkled salt on it. Indeed all [the host’s] kinsmen ate of it.
\nThus it is that it was done in days of old when they bathed slaves in [the month of] Panquetzaliztli.
\nHe who did so, who bathed slaves, for as long as he still lived on earth, always guarded his sacred reed box.1 There he kept what had been the array of his bathed slave, all his adornment, all that has been mentioned: the cape, the breech clout, the sandals; the skirt, the shift, everything. Nothing was omitted; verily, all he guarded for himself. Indeed all the hair from the crowns of [the slaves’] heads he packed into the sacred reed box. And later, if the bather of slaves died, they burned [all this] for him.
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