and were revereered....typo, 'revered' 

Regrading sources, it looks like this poem is a recreation drawn from the "Florentine Codex" or  General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. I've added quick links to some sources here. 

Tasks: 
  - clean up format of page
  - regularize bibliography
  - decide what to do with extended source/context information. 

It appears as though the translator recognized that the Nahua "informants" would not have spoken in prose; and so this is an attempted re-oralization. Unclear if the translator worked from the Spanish text only, though it is probable, given that the bilingual text has not been widely accessible until recently. 

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I think some commentary on the structure of the original language version compared to the English translation (if possible) would be interesting, like we discussed in class. Understanding why the structure of the lines are the way they are would be helpful to understand the choices the transcriber made. 

Including side by side comparisons of the original language and the English translation could add another dimension to the analysis of the translation/transcription of it. I'd also be interesting in some more information about how this was performed orally/historically. Not sure how much information for that kind of research is available, but it would definitely be compelling. 

 --- //[[tbfx@iup.edu|Haley E. Brown]] 2021/06/16 15:43//

I think that is an excellent suggestion Haley! Unfortunately, the Spanish translation of this particular text is not widely available. I was happy that Prof Sherwood actually included those photos scan of a Spanish text depicting a similar event 
 --- //[[WXVCC@iup.edu|David M Gonsalves]] 2021/06/16 15:56//

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I agree with H's comment above that something could be done with the side-by-side, though that would be a lot of work. The Spanish is actually completely available online now. 

But more to the point, those resources in the bibliography speak to the "context" issue which is blank. We need clarity that these poems are sources from a contact era text, giving us possibly some insight into Pre-columbian oral practices. 
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