Rig Veda Americanus - Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl by Various
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twins" or "bearing twins," as the myth related that such was her
fertility that she always bore two children at one lying-in. (Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib. VI., cap. 31.) She was also known by the title _Tonan_ or _Tonantzin_, "our mother," as in v. 5 and 6. Still another of her appellations was _Quilaztli_, which is given her in v. 1. (Comp. Sahagun, _Historia_, Lib. VI., cap. 27.) She was essentially a goddess of fertility and reproduction. The name _cihuacoatl_ was also applied to one of the higher magistrates and war chiefs in the Aztec army (Sahagun). Reference is made to this in v. 6. As a goddess of venerable antiquity, she is spoken of as coming from Colhuacan, "the place of the old men," or of the ancestors of the tribe. This name is derived from _coloa_, to bend down, as an aged person, _colli_, an old man. (See my _Ancient Nahuatl Poetry_, pp. 172-3). XIV. _Izcatqui yn cuicatl chicuexiuhtica meuaya iniquac atamalqualoya._ 1. Xochitl noyollo cuepontimania ye tlacoyoalle, oaya, oouayaye. 2. Yecoc ye tonan, yecoc ye teutl tlacolteutla, oaya, ooayaya. 3. Otlacatqui çenteutl tamiyoanichan ni xochitlicacani. Çey xochitli yantala, yantata, ayyao, ayyaue, tilili yao, ayaue, oayyaue. 4. Otlacatqui çenteutl, atl, yayaui cani tlaca pillachiualoya chalchimichuacan, yyao, yantala, yatanta, a yyao, ayyaue tilili yao, ayyaue, oayyaue. |
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