_Chicomecoatl icuic._
1. Chicomollotzin xayameua, ximicotica aca tona titech icnocauazqui
tiyauia mochan tlallocan nouia.
2. Xayameua ximicotica aca tonan titech icnocauazqui tiyauian mochan
tlallocan nouiya.
_Var._ 1. Xaia mehoa.
_Gloss._
1. _Q.n._, yn ti chicomolotl, _id est_, in ti centli ximeua, xica,
xixoa, ca otimouicaya in mochan tlallocan.
2. _Q.n._, xayameua, _id est_, ximeua, xixua, xica, ca otimouicaya in
mochantzinco in tlallocan ca yuhquin ti tonatzon.
_Hymn to Chicomecoatl._
1. O noble Chicomolotl, arise, awake, leave us not unprotected on the
way, conduct us to the home of Tlaloc.
2. Arise, awake, leave us not unprotected on the way, conduct us to
the home of Tlaloc.
_Notes._
The goddess Chicomecoatl, “seven guests,” was the deity who presided
over food and drink. Hence in the first verse she is referred to as
Chicomolotl, “seven ears of corn,” and is spoken of as a guide to
Tlalocan, or the home of abundance.
Father Duran, who gives a long chapter on this goddess (_Historia_, cap.
92), translates her name “serpent of seven heads,” and adds that she was
also called _Chalciucihuatl_, “Lady of the Emerald,” and _Xilonen_,
“goddess of the tender ears of maize.” Every kind of seed and vegetable
which served for food was under her guardianship, and hence her festival,
held about the middle of September, was particularly solemn. Her statue
represented her as a girl of about twelve years old.
(Daniel Garrison Brinton)
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