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Kunij walajtuya se nawataketza ipal Meshikal pal tamachtia ne Nawataketzalis, wan kenhayuk kinetuya kaj kipalewia iwan muchi ne tajtamachtiani. Né ninemik kashtuli tunal iwanmet. Né nechishmatijket ka naja niweli nitaketza Nawat, wan kwak nemik ukseseyuk senputzuat teya nechajkawket ma te niu.

Then a Nahuatl speaker from Mexico came to teach the language, and once more he wanted somebody to help him with the teachers. I was there with them for two weeks. There I was recognised for my knowledge of Nawat, and afterwards I got invited to all the meetings.

You are responsible for the cooking of chicken soup, beef soup, chipilin soup, loroco and tomato rice, opossum pinole, venison pinole.

You sustain the flesh on our body because on account of you our body has blood, and flesh, our body is fattened, our bones are hardened.

Padiush, Nan Tal, ka taja tikitak kwak ninesik, tikitak kwak nipejki niweya, kwak nimuchiwki takat. Mupanpa naja niwelik nikchiwa muchi tay niwelik tik ne tunal, ninemik wejwey takapiltzin, nechmunekiket pal nitekitik iwanmet. Panu sujsul tunal wan nimuchiwki chulet, kunij teya akaj nechneki kwak nikukuya, maya nuiknuwan, kenhayuk nechnekit pero ajsi keman teya akaj nechneki, nan nuiknuwan, ajsi se tunal ka naja nimiki, kunij nan nusiwaw nan nupilawan nechnekit, yawit nechmimat ken kimimat ne kupajsul tik ne kupajsultal, maya taja, Tunan Tal, ashta kwak timikit titechneki ka kunij tiktapua mumajmajkul pal titechnamiki. Yajika timetzilwitiat padiush, Tunan Tal!

Thank you, Mother Earth, because you saw when I was born, you saw when I began to grow, when I became an adult. Thanks to you I was able to do everything I did today, I had a long youth, I was needed for work. After many days I grew old, then nobody wants me when I am ill, only my brothers, they still love me but the day will come when nobody wants me, not even my brothers, the day will come when I die, then not even my wife and my children will want me, they will throw me out as they throw out rubbish, only you, Mother Earth, want us even when we die, for then you open your arms to receive us. For that I thank you, Mother Earth!

Kwak se siwat kiwetzi yek kinutza. Wan su te kineki, kunij yawi ka tayua, wan ne kan kuchi ajsi kinapalua wan kichiwa ma isiwaw.

When he fancied a woman he called to her. If she wasn’t interested, then he would come at night to where she was sleeping to hold her and make her his wife.

¿A qué hora te duermes por la noche? — Como a las ocho y me acuesto a las nueve, para levantarme temprano.

— En la noche tengo mucho miedo porque está oscuro.

Ne nukunpa nechwikak ka nuchan, nikunik chiupi at iwan ne pajti, wan né tipanuket hasta ka tayuakik. Kwakuni yaja yajki ichan, wan nimutekak nikuchi. Kwak tanesik, nisak wan ninemik yek.

Me llevó mi amigo a casa, bebí un poco de agua con la medicina, y allí pasamos hasta que anocheció. Entonces él se fue a su casa, y yo me acosté a dormir. Cuando amaneció, me desperté y estuve bien.

— Nikwaj inakayu tijlan. Muchi titakwajket yek wan sujsul ajwiak.

— Comí carne de gallina. Todos comimos bien y era muy sabroso.

Cuatro conejos y tres armadillos

Cuántos armadillos hay aquí?

Qué bonito está el campo con sus árboles vestidos de verdes hojas y olorosas flores de varios colores!

Hay muchas clases de mariposas, unas que salen a volar de día y otras por la noche; pero cuando las persiguen, huyen y no se dejan coger, porque temen morir como nosotros.

In the nights he is sleeping.

"Each night she goes out to walk abround, but only her head."

Then it split open in the middle of the night, let's say at midnight; you hear it at midnight.

That was not a deer; it was the meat of their 'bogeyman', of their grandmother's fellow.

Ini ne inakayu tukujkul! Kilwijket.

"That was our bogeyman's flesh", they said.