Y antes que tuviesen noticia de las plumas ricas de que se hacen las divisas y armas arriba dichas, estos tultecas labraban plumajes para bailar, de plumas blancas y negras de gallinas, y de garzotas, y de ánades. No sabían entonce aún los primores deste oficio que agora se usan. Toscamente componían la pluma, y la cortaban con navajas de itztli encima de tablas de ahuéhuetl. Las plumas ricas parecieron en tiempo del señor que se llamaba Ahuítzotl, y truxéronlas los mercaderes que llamaban tecuhnenenque cuando conquistaron a las provincias de Anáhuac. Entonce comenzaron los amantecas a labrar cosas primas y delicadas.
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"8d5c6d6c-e1b2-4183-8488-0cfdaf559137","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"And before they knew about the valuable feathers that are used to make the weapons and insignias mentioned above, these Toltecs would create feather ornaments for dancing with black and white feathers from chickens, cranes, and ducks. They had not yet learned the delicate skills of this craft that are used now. They would arrange the feathers in an awkward manner, and they would cut them with _itztli_ blades on top of _ahuehuetl_ planks. The valuable feathers made their appearance during the time of the lord who was named Ahuitzotl, and they were brought [to Mexico] by the merchants who were called _tecuhnenenque_ when they conquered the provinces of Anahuac. It was then that the _amantecas_ started creating first-rate and delicate things.","html":"And before they knew about the valuable feathers that are used to make the weapons and insignias mentioned above, these Toltecs would create feather ornaments for dancing with black and white feathers from chickens, cranes, and ducks. They had not yet learned the delicate skills of this craft that are used now. They would arrange the feathers in an awkward manner, and they would cut them with itztli blades on top of ahuehuetl planks. The valuable feathers made their appearance during the time of the lord who was named Ahuitzotl, and they were brought [to Mexico] by the merchants who were called tecuhnenenque when they conquered the provinces of Anahuac. It was then that the amantecas started creating first-rate and delicate things.
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"a02b65ab-c3c8-4868-bcc1-6705bb68881e","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"tenchaiaoac, quanmoloctica, quetzalpuztectica, çaquantica tlauhquecholtica iacachapollo in tlapilolli: ioan in ie mochi tlauiztli, çan ie moche in tlaçoihuitl, ic uel necia in aço quetzalpatzactli, anoço quaxolotl, anoço tocehoatl, cuitlatexoehoatl tzanatica motlotlouitec, chamolehoatl, coçoehoatl, aztaehoatl, etc. in çaço tlein quichioaia: ca miec tlamãtli in tlauiztli catca.\n\nAuh mitoa, in aiatle tlaçoihuitl, inic tultecatizque, inic tlauelnestizque amanteca: çan oc moch ehoatl in quinequia, macehoalihuitl, in iuhqui aztatl, ioan tliltic totolihuitl, ioan iztac totolihuitl, ioan canahuihuitl: in aztatl, çan oc iehoatl quetzalpouiia, aztaxelli quichioaia in ipan cuicoianaloia totolquechtapalcatl in tlateloloiotl in quichioaia: auh in tlapilolli iê in canauhihuitl quipiloaia.\n\nAuh inic tlatequia çan oc iê in itztli aueuetl quinamictiaia in ipan quitequia ihuitl.\n\nAuh in necico tlaçoihuitl, iuh mitoa: quin ipan in auitzotl tecutli, iehoan quinestico, caxitico in itecunenencahoan, in ioz[tomecahoan]","html":"tenchaiaoac, quanmoloctica, quetzalpuztectica, çaquantica tlauhquecholtica iacachapollo in tlapilolli: ioan in ie mochi tlauiztli, çan ie moche in tlaçoihuitl, ic uel necia in aço quetzalpatzactli, anoço quaxolotl, anoço tocehoatl, cuitlatexoehoatl tzanatica motlotlouitec, chamolehoatl, coçoehoatl, aztaehoatl, etc. in çaço tlein quichioaia: ca miec tlamãtli in tlauiztli catca.
\nAuh mitoa, in aiatle tlaçoihuitl, inic tultecatizque, inic tlauelnestizque amanteca: çan oc moch ehoatl in quinequia, macehoalihuitl, in iuhqui aztatl, ioan tliltic totolihuitl, ioan iztac totolihuitl, ioan canahuihuitl: in aztatl, çan oc iehoatl quetzalpouiia, aztaxelli quichioaia in ipan cuicoianaloia totolquechtapalcatl in tlateloloiotl in quichioaia: auh in tlapilolli iê in canauhihuitl quipiloaia.
\nAuh inic tlatequia çan oc iê in itztli aueuetl quinamictiaia in ipan quitequia ihuitl.
\nAuh in necico tlaçoihuitl, iuh mitoa: quin ipan in auitzotl tecutli, iehoan quinestico, caxitico in itecunenencahoan, in ioz[tomecahoan]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"13d53857-34a8-4bb8-8a7c-c7b8a28674ba","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":"radiating from the [lower] rim; with eagle down,[^6] with quetzal feathers, with those of the troupial, with those of the red spoonbill; with grasshopper figures on the ends of the pendants.[^7] And verily all the devices, indeed all, were made of nothing but precious feathers, in which they looked beautiful: perhaps the quetzal feather crest-like device, or the Xolotl head, or the yellow parrot feather shirt; the blue parrot feather one[^8] with wavy lines in grackle feathers;[^9] the scarlet parrot feather shirt,[^10] the green feather one,[^11] the heron feather one, etc.: whatsoever they made. For many were the forms of devices.\n\nAnd it is said that before there were precious feathers with which the inhabitants of Amantlan could practice their craft, could decorate the objects, all that they required[^12] were the common feathers, like those of the heron, and black bird feathers, and white bird feathers, and duck feathers. Only heron feathers corresponded to those of the quetzal; [with them] they made the forked heron feather device in which the winding dance was performed. They made feather balls of turkey breast feathers; for pendants they suspended duck feathers.\n\nAnd to cut them [they used] obsidian blades, which they applied against a bald cypress[^13] [board] on which they cut the feathers.\n\nBut when the precious feathers came to appear, so it is told, it was later, in the time of the ruler Auitzotl. Those who discovered them, who came upon them, were his noble travelers, \n\n\n\n\n[^6]: If *quauhmoloctli*, soft eagle feathers (cf. Anderson and Dibble, *op. cit*., Book II, p. 87). According to Seler, *op. cit*., p. 437 and n. 86, *”les plumes brunes et blanches de la Piaya cayana,” “du coucou à queue longue.”*\n\n\n[^7]: Compare Seler, *Gesammelte Abhandlungen*, II, pp. 665–666, with Sahagún, *loc. cit*. The versions vary slightly.\n\n\n[^8]: *Cuitlatexoehoatl*: see *supra*, Chap. i, n. 2.\n\n\n[^9]: *Tzanatl*: boat-tailed grackle—*Cassidix mexicanus* (Gmelin). Friedmann *et al., op. cit*., Pt. II, p. 279.\n\n\n[^10]: Cf. *supra*, Chap. i, p. 1.\n\n\n[^11]: *Coçoehoatl*: read *cochoehoatl*. Although the white-fronted parrot, *Amazona albifrons* (Sparrmann) is white, red, turquoise and green in color, its plumage is predominately green. Cf. Friedmann *et al*., Pt. 1, p. 129.\n\n\n[^12]: *Yevatl* in *Acad. Hist. MS*. \n\n\n[^13]: Aueuetl: *”Sabino, árbol prócer de la Mesa Central*… . Taxodium mucronatum” (Sahagún, *op. cit*., IV, p. 320); cf. also Santamaría, *op. cit*., I, p. 65. According to Standley, *op. cit*., Vol. 23, Pt. 1, p. 60, bald cypress.","html":"radiating from the [lower] rim; with eagle down,1 with quetzal feathers, with those of the troupial, with those of the red spoonbill; with grasshopper figures on the ends of the pendants.2 And verily all the devices, indeed all, were made of nothing but precious feathers, in which they looked beautiful: perhaps the quetzal feather crest-like device, or the Xolotl head, or the yellow parrot feather shirt; the blue parrot feather one3 with wavy lines in grackle feathers;4 the scarlet parrot feather shirt,5 the green feather one,6 the heron feather one, etc.: whatsoever they made. For many were the forms of devices.
\nAnd it is said that before there were precious feathers with which the inhabitants of Amantlan could practice their craft, could decorate the objects, all that they required7 were the common feathers, like those of the heron, and black bird feathers, and white bird feathers, and duck feathers. Only heron feathers corresponded to those of the quetzal; [with them] they made the forked heron feather device in which the winding dance was performed. They made feather balls of turkey breast feathers; for pendants they suspended duck feathers.
\nAnd to cut them [they used] obsidian blades, which they applied against a bald cypress8 [board] on which they cut the feathers.
\nBut when the precious feathers came to appear, so it is told, it was later, in the time of the ruler Auitzotl. Those who discovered them, who came upon them, were his noble travelers,
\nIf quauhmoloctli, soft eagle feathers (cf. Anderson and Dibble, op. cit., Book II, p. 87). According to Seler, op. cit., p. 437 and n. 86, ”les plumes brunes et blanches de la Piaya cayana,” “du coucou à queue longue.”↩
Compare Seler, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, II, pp. 665–666, with Sahagún, loc. cit. The versions vary slightly.↩
Cuitlatexoehoatl: see supra, Chap. i, n. 2.↩
Tzanatl: boat-tailed grackle—Cassidix mexicanus (Gmelin). Friedmann et al., op. cit., Pt. II, p. 279.↩
Cf. supra, Chap. i, p. 1.↩
Coçoehoatl: read cochoehoatl. Although the white-fronted parrot, Amazona albifrons (Sparrmann) is white, red, turquoise and green in color, its plumage is predominately green. Cf. Friedmann et al., Pt. 1, p. 129.↩
Yevatl in Acad. Hist. MS.↩
Aueuetl: ”Sabino, árbol prócer de la Mesa Central… . Taxodium mucronatum” (Sahagún, op. cit., IV, p. 320); cf. also Santamaría, op. cit., I, p. 65. According to Standley, op. cit., Vol. 23, Pt. 1, p. 60, bald cypress.↩