More on the Telpochcalli

The full entry is in Spanish, and here is why

What you have read above is this project's own summary of more on the telpochcalli. 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:

• Una por barrio
• El barrio que la sostenía
• Sus maestros, en el palacio
• Antes de la escuela, la ración
• Cómo se ascendía: contando cautivos
• Preguntas que llegan a esta página

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