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Tonatiuh ichan, the house of the sun: "Thus is the tale, the consensus of the elders: the brave warriors, the eagle-ocelot warriors, those who died in war, went there to the house of the sun. And they lived there in the east, where the sun arose. And when the sun was about to emerge, when it was still dark, they arrayed themselves, they armed themselves as for war, met the sun as it emerged, brought it forth, came giving cries for it, came gladdening it, came skirmishing. Before it they came rejoicing; they came to leave it there at the zenith, called the midday sun." "And here is the story, the tale, of the women who had died in war, and of the mocihuaquetzque: it is said that the women who had died in war and the mocihuaquetzque lived there at the falling place, the entering place, of the sun. For this reason the old people, those who went recording things, named the place where the sun entered cihuatlampa, because the women lived there." "And when the sun had emerged, when it already had advanced along its course, when those who had died in war, the brave warriors, already came gladdening it, came giving cries for it, when this sun had already advanced along its course, then the women arrayed themselves, armed themselves as for war, took the shields, the devices. Then they rose up; they came ascending to meet the midday sun there. There the eagle-ocelet warriors, those who had died in war, delivered the sun into the hands of the women. And then the warriors scattered out everywhere, sipping, sucking the different flowers." "And the women then began: they carried, they brought down the sun. They carried it with a litter of quetzal feathers; it traveled in quetzal feathers; they provided it a support. And as they bore it, they also went giving cries for it, they went gladdening it, they went gladdening it with war cries. They left it there, it is said, where the sun enters." |
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