Category: Poetry
It is with some hesitation that I offer this volume to the scientific public. The text of the ancient songs which it contains offers extreme and peculiar difficulties to the translator, and I have been obliged to pursue the task without assistance of any kind. Not a line of th...
The _omichicahuaz_, "strong bone," was constructed somewhat on the principle of a _teponaztli_. A large and long bone was selected, as the femur of a man or deer, and it was cha...
6. Part 67. Macuelachic aya maoc ixquich cahuitl niquin notlanehui in chalchiuhtini in maquiztini in tepilhuan aya; zan nicxochimalina in tecpillotl huia: zan ca nican nocuic ica ya noco...
3. Part 3The third is a "spring song" in which the distinguished warriors of the king are compared to precious stones. Such jewels were believed by the Nahuas to possess certain mysterio...
1. Part 1It is with some hesitation that I offer this volume to the scientific public. The text of the ancient songs which it contains offers extreme and peculiar difficulties to the tra...
4. Part 41. Xochicalco nihualcalaquia in nicuicani, oncan icac in chalchiuhuehuetl, oncan chialon ipalnemohuani in teteuctin xochitl tzetzeliuhtimani, tolquatectitla, xoyacaltitlan, onah...
5. Part 51. Nictzotzonan nohuehueuh nicuicatlamatquetl ic niquimonixitia ic niquimitlehua in tocnihuan in atle in yollo quimati in aic tlathui ipan inin yollo yaocochmictoque in inpan mo...
7. Part 72. I am like the quetzal bird, I am created in the house of the one only God; I sing sweet songs among the flowers; I chant songs and rejoice in my heart.
8. Part 8The title does not necessarily mean that this song is a translation from the Otomi language, but merely that the time to which it was chanted was in the Otomi style; or, the ter...
10. Part 10TAPALCAYOA, _v_. To be full of potsherds and broken bits. XV, 16. TATLI, _n. and v_. See p. 19. TE, _pron. pers_. 1. Thou. 2. _Pron. rel. indef_. Somebody. TEAHUIACA, _adj_. Ple...
9. Part 9C, _pron. rel_. He, her, it, him; _postpos_., with, by, in, from, at. CA, _adv_. Already, yes, because, for, truly, only. CA, _v_. To be (in a place). _CA_, _postpos_. With, by,...
11. Part 11TEPANECAS or TECPANECAS, 35. A powerful nation of Nahuatl lineage, who dwelt in the valley of Mexico. They were destroyed in 1425 by the Acolhuas and Mexicans, and later the sta...