1. Chimalipan was a virgin when she brought forth the adviser of battles; Chimalipan was a virgin when she brought forth the adviser of battles.
  2. On the [Coatepec] was her labor; on the mountain he ripened into age; as he became a man truly the earth was shaken, even as he became a man.

[Notes.]

The goddess Chimalipan is not mentioned by the authorities at my command; but from the tenor of the hymn it is evident that the name is a synonym for [the virgin mother of Huitzilopochtli], who is distinctly referred to by his title Yautlatoani (see ante, p. 18). In the myth, she dwelt upon the Coatepetl, [the Serpent Mountain], on the [site of Tulan]. For a full discussion of this myth I refer to my inquiry, “Were the [Toltecs] an Historic Nationality?” in Proceedings of the Amer. Phil. Soc. for Sept. 1887, and American Hero-Myths, chap. 11. (Phila., 1881).

The Gloss distinctly states that the mother of Huitzilopochtli is referred to in the hymn. We must regard Chimalipan therefore as identical with [Chimalman], who, according to another myth dwelt in Tula as a virgin, and was divinely impregnated by [the descending spirit of the All-father in the shape of a bunch of feathers].

In other myths she is mentioned as also the mother of [the Huitznahua, the enemies and the brothers of Huitzilopochtli], referred to in the second of this collection of chants.

[VI. Ixcoçauhqui icuic.]

  1. [Huiya tzonimolco notauane ye namech maya pinauhtiz, tetemoca ye namech maya pinauhtiz.]
  2. [Xonca mecatla notecua icçotl mimilcatoc chicueyocan naualcalli nauali temoquetlaya.]
  3. [Huiya tzonimolco cuicotipeuhque, aya tzonimolco cuicotipeuhque, aya iztleica naual moquizcauia, iztlauan naual moquizca.]
  4. [Huia tzonimolco maceualli maya temacouia, oya tonaqui, oya tonaqui maceualli, maya temacouiya.]
  5. [Huiya tzonimolco xoxolcuicatl cacauantoc ya ayouica mocuiltonoaci tontecuitl moteicnelil mauiztli.]
  6. [Huiya ciuatontla xatenonotza, ayyauhcalcatl quiyauatla, xatenonotza.]

Var. 2. Xoncan mecatlan notechoan. 3. Iztleica (for iztlauan). 6. Ia ayiauhcalcatl.

[Gloss.]