The floors of the cosmos

The full entry is in Spanish, and here is why

What you have read above is this project's own summary of the floors of the cosmos. The full entry — the part that rests on the sixteenth-century sources — has not been translated, and that is a decision rather than an omission.

We chose not to touch the primary text. Those sections quote Sahagún, Durán and the codices in their own words, often in sixteenth-century Castilian. A quotation carried across stops being a quotation: it loses the register, the ambiguity and the exact wording someone might want to check against a facsimile.

In Spanish the entry carries:

• La gran división
• El centro es un ombligo
• La izquierda no era el lado malo
• Hacia abajo · los nueve
• Hacia arriba · los trece
• Cómo se llama cada uno
• Qué había en cada uno
• Las fuentes no coinciden, y se dice
• De dónde salió todo esto

Read the full entry in the original Spanish → Nahuatl names and terms are identical in both versions.