bordada com plumas de diversas maneras, como arriba se dixo. Tenían éstas en las manos cañas de maíz verdes, por báculos, y llevaban también un aventadero de plumas ricas en la otra mano, y un juel de oro hecho a manera de comal. También llevaban orejeras de oro, muy polidas y muy resplandecientes. Ninguna cosa llevaban a cuestas. Llevaban por cabellos papeles. Llevaban las muñecas de ambos brazos adornadas como plumas ricas, de todas maneras. También llevaban las piernas desta manera emplumadas, desde las rodillas hasta los todillos. Tenían también cotaras texidas de hojas del árbol que se llama íczotl, para dar a entender que eran chichimecas venidas a publar a esta tierra.
\nembroidered with different kinds of feathers, as mentioned above. These [goddesses] held green maize stalks in their hands, as staffs; and they also held in the other hand a fan made of valuable feathers, as well as a gold jewel made in the shape of a comal.1 They also wore very polished and very shiny gold ear ornaments. They did not wear anything on their backs. They wore paper strips for hair. They had the wrists of both arms adorned with all kinds of valuable feathers. They also had their legs feathered in this way, from the knees to the heels. They also wore sandals woven with the leaves of the tree called iczotl, so as to make it known that they were Chichimeca women who had come to populate this land.
\ncomal: griddle; Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word comalli.↩
tenihuiio mochioa ie in quauhtlachcaiotl ic tlapotonilli, no ic tzetzeliuhtoc in izquican icac tlaçoihuitl nepapan ihuitl
\nomestin inmac oonoc, incicintopil in cequintin quitoa quetzaltotoecacehoaztli in inmac mamanca teucuitlatl in imelpancozqui iuhquin comalli ic tlatectli teucuitlatl ioan inteteucuitlanacoch, uiuiiontimani cuecuecueiocatimani: aoc tle quimama tequetzalcomitl, çaniio imaamatzõ inpopoquetzal conmamantimani ioan inxiuhtlanes contlalitimani: ioan innenecoc inmac, nepapan ihuitica in mopotonique, in maquechtlan oallacicitica in innepotonil: çan no iui in imicxic, no nepapan ihuitica in mopotonique, in xoquechtlan tlatlami in innepotonil: auh no imicçocac, ic quinestiaia ca chichimecacihoa ca çan oallaque.
\na feather fringe was made of soft eagle feathers; thus were they pasted with feathers. Also her sandals were everywhere sprinkled with divers precious feathers.
\nIn the hands of both of them lay their maize stalk staves. Some say quetzal bird fans were in their hands. Golden were their breast pendants, like cut discs of gold. And their golden ear pendants were constantly trembling, gleaming. No ollas with quetzal feathers did they bear upon their backs. Only their paper headdresses with billowing quetzal feathers did they arrange, and they set their radiating turquoise ornaments in place. And both their arms were feathered with divers feathers; their feathering reached to their wrists. Likewise their legs were feathered with divers feathers; their feathering ended at their ankles. And with their yucca fiber sandals they showed that they were Chichimec women who had just arrived.
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