2. She alone, who is our flesh, goddess of the fields and shrubs, is strong to support us. 3. With the hoe, with the hoe, with hands full, with the hoe, with hands full, the goddess of the fields is strong to support us. 4. With a broom in her hands the goddess of the fields strongly supports us. 5. Our mother is as twelve eagles, goddess of drum-beating, filling the fields of tzioac and maguey like our lord Mixcoatl. 6. She is our mother, a goddess of war, our mother, a goddess of war, an example and a companion from the home of our ancestors (Colhuacan). 7. She comes forth, she appears when war is waged, she protects us in war that we shall not be destroyed, an example and companion from the home of our ancestors. 8. She comes adorned in the ancient manner with the eagle crest, in the ancient manner with the eagle crest. _Notes._ Cihuacoatl was the mythical mother of the human race. Her name, generally translated "serpent woman," should be rendered "woman of 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 centeutl tamiyoanichan ni xochitlicacani. Cey xochitli yantala, yantata, ayyao, ayyaue, tilili yao, ayaue, oayyaue. 4. Otlacatqui centeutl, atl, yayaui cani tlaca pillachiualoya chalchimichuacan, yyao, yantala, yatanta, a yyao, ayyaue tilili yao, ayyaue, oayyaue. 5. Oya tlatonazqui tlauizcalleuaya inan tlachinaya nepapan quechol, xochitlacacan y yantala, yantata, ayyao, ayyaue, tilili yao, ayyaue, oayyayaue. 6. Tlalpa timoquetzca, tianquiz nauaquia nitlacatla, ni quetzalcoatla, yyao, yantala, yantata, ayyao, ayyaue, tilili yao ayyaue, oayyayue. 7. Ma ya auiallo xochinquauitl itlani nepapan quecholli ma ya in quecholli xicaquiya tlatoaya y toteuh, xicaquiya tlatoaya y quechol amach yeua tonicauh tlapitza amach ychan tlacaluaz, ouao. 8. Aye oho, yyayya, ca miquiyecauiz ca noxocha tonaca xochitli ye izqui xochitla, xochitlicacan, yyaa.