On this feast, the Nahuatl elders told Sahagun, the growth of children was celebrated: "It was still early morning when was begun the piercing of the ear, when they pierced the ear of the small children. And they pasted them with yellow parrot feathers and with soft white feathers which went mingled with the yellow ones." "And the mothers sought out some brave warrior, perhaps a seasoned warrior or a leader of youths who might wish to be as a parent, thus to become the child's uncle. Also some sought out a woman who might be as an aunt." "The old men of the calpulli were spread about taking the small children; they were spread about dedicating them over the fire. Then they were spread about giving them uncles and aunts. And it was as if the children kept crying out, it was as if they whimpered. Then they went each to his home." " And when the singing and dancing were begun in the temple, it was noon. Then once again there was going to the temple. The uncles, the aunts carried the children." " They carried the children on their backs. There they were spread about giving them pulque; they went giving it to them; they gave it to one another." "And all were giving pulque to the small children."