Cuando se hacía la fiesta, todos los viejos amantecas se juntaban en el barrio de Amantlan. Allí cantaban y hacían velar a todos los que habían de morir a honra de aquellos dioses. Y tenían costumbre, para aquietar el miedo a los que habían de morir, para que no temiesen a la muerte, dábanles a beber un bebraje que llaman itzpactli. Este bebraje desatinaba o emborrachaba, para que cuando les cortasen los pechos estuviesen sin sentido.
\nHabía algunos destos esclavos alocados que ellos mismos, corriendo, se subían a lo alto del cu, deseando que los matasen de presto, deseando de acabar presto la vida.
\nLa segunda vez cuando hacían fiesta a estos dioses, que se llamaba tlaxuchimaco, no mataban a ningún esclavo. Hacían entonce la fiesta a honra de las dos diosas, que la una se llamaba Xiuhtlati y la otra Xilo. También esta honra la enderezaban a honra de los otros cinco dioses. En esta fiesta todas
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\nWhen the festival was celebrated, all the older amantecas would get together in the barrio of Amantla. They would be singing there and making all those who were about to die in honor of those gods stay awake [and keep vigil]. And in order to calm the fear of those who were about to die, they had the custom of giving them a concoction that they call itzpactli to drink, so that they would not fear death. This draft made one numb or drunk, so that they would be senseless when they cut open their chests.
\nSome of these slaves would become so wild that they would run up by themselves to the top of the cu, eager to be killed at once, wishing to end their lives quickly.
\nThe second time that they celebrated a festival for these gods, [during the month] that was called Tlaxochimaco, they would not kill any slaves. At that time, they celebrated a festival in honor of the two goddesses, for one was called Xiuhtlati, and the other one, Xilo. They also dedicated this ceremony to honoring the other five gods.
\nDuring this festival, all
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\nAuh in icoac, y, in isquichtin in ueueiohoan, amanteca: mochintin oncan cenquiça in incalpulco, oncan quincuicatia quintozçauiia in quezquinti miquizque, teixiptlaoan, iuh quitoa: inic amo miquizmauhque iezque, inic amo quimacacizque miquiztli, achtopa quimitiaia in quitocaiotiaia itzpactli: quilmach iuhquin ic quiniolpoloaia: ic quiniolmictiaia, inic aocmo momauhtizque: in icoac quimeltetequizque, iuhquinma ic ihuinti: tlapoloa in iniollo. Conitoa, in aca tlaaltilli: iuhquin iollotlaueliloc muchioa, ça monomatlecauia, motlalotitleco in icpac Diablo: coneleuia, conmonectia in macuele ontlacoti ompopoliui.
\nAuh in icoac ic oppa imilhuiuh quiçaia: icoac in motenehoaia tlasuchimaco, aocac miquia, ça miscauiaia in quinmauiztiliaia vmētin cihoa in xiuhtlati ioan xilo: tel ic quincenmauiztiliaia in in[teuhoan:]
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\nAnd when this happened, all the old men of Amantlan, every one, gathered there in their calpulli temple; there they provided song, they held vigil for all who were to die as likenesses [of the gods]. They said that in order that they would not fear, that they would not dread death, they first made them drink what they called the obsidian medicine. It is said that apparently by means of it they deprived them of their senses, of their consciousness, so that no longer would they be afraid at the time that they cut open their breasts. It was as if they were besotted; they lost their senses. They say that some of the bathed ones became deranged; quite of their own wills they climbed—ran—up to the top [of the temple] of the devil, longing for—seeking—[death], even though they were to suffer, to perish.
\nAnd when for the second time their feast day arrived, when it was [the month] called Tlaxochimaco, none died. They concerned themselves only with paying honor to the two women, Xiuhtlati and Xilo, although in doing so they did honor to all
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