tipiltzintli.

4. _Q.n._, xiualmeua, xiualmeua, in tipiltzintli in ti cuzcatl, in ti
quetzalli.


_Hymn to Ayopechcatl._

1. Truly in whatever house there is a lying-in, Ayopechcatl takes
charge of the child.

2. Truly in whatever house there is a lying-in, Ayopechcatl takes
charge of the child, there where it is weeping in the house.

3. Come along and cry out, cry out, cry out, you new comer, come along
and cry out.

4. Come along and cry out, cry out, cry out, you little jewel, cry
out.


_Notes._

The name of Ayopechcatl does not appear among the divinities named by
Sahagun, Duran or the other authorities at my command. Her name
indicates her function as the goddess of the child-bed and the neonatus,
and the above hymn establishes her claim to a place in the Aztec
pantheon.