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chimecas,® and this they say was the beginning of the Ohichimecas, which 
we call Otomis, which in the language of Spain signifies mountaineers, and 
these, as we shall narrate hereafter, were the inhabitants of this country be- 
fore the Mexicans came to conquer, and to dwell there ; and in the eleven 
years following of this third thirteen, Camasale*” did penance, taking the 
thorns of the maguéy and drawing blood from his tongue and ears, and for 
this reason it isthe custom to draw blood from such places with the thorns 
whenever they supplicate the gods. He did this penance so that his 
four sons and daughter that he had created in the eighth heaven 
should descend and slay the Ohichimecas, so that the sun should have 
hearts to eat; and in the eleventh year of the third thirteenth, down came 
the four sons and the daughter, and placed themselves in some trees 
whence they fed eagles; and now it was that the Camasale invented the 
wine of the maguéy and other kinds of wines in which the Ohichimecas 
busied themselves, and knew nothing better than drunkenness ; and being 
in the trees the sons of Camasale, they were seen by the Ohichimecas, who 
went to them, so they descended from the trees, and slew all the Chichi- 
mecas, only three escaping ; one was called Xémbel, another Mimichil, and 
the third was the Camasale, the god who had created them, and who 
transformed himself into a Chichimeca., In the eighth year of the fourth 
thirteen after the deluge there was a great noise in the heaven from 
whence there fell a deer with two heads, and Camasale caused it 
to be caught, and ordered the men who then inhabited Cuitlalavacu, 
three leagues distant from Mexico, that they should capture that deer and 
regard it as a god, and they did so, and they gave it for four years to eat 
of rabbits and vipers and butterflies ; and in the eighth year of the fourth 
thirteen Camasale had a war with some of his adjoining neighbors, and 
in order to conquer them he took the aforesaid stag and carrying it to them 
overcame them; and in the second year of the fifth thirteen did this 
sane god Oamasale celebrate a festival in heaven, making many fires ; and 
until there was completed the fifth thirteen after the deluge did Camasale 
keep on continuously making war, and with it he gave nutriment to the 
sun, 
They say, and the paintings likewise show it, that in the first year of 
the sixth thirteen the Chichimecas waged war against Camasale, and took 
away his deer, through which he was enabled to be victorious; and the 
reason why he lost it was that while wandering about the field he fell in 
witha female relation of Zezcathipuea, a descendant of the five women whom 
he had made at the time when he created the 400 men which latter died, 
but the females remained alive, and this one was descended from them, 
and bore a son who was known as Oeacalt ;°* and in this thirteen they rep- 
resent that afterwards when Qeacalt (sic) was a youth he did seven years of 
penance; wandering alone through the mountains, and drawing blood 
from himself that the gods might make him a mighty warrior, And in the 
sixth thirteen after the deluge began, this Veacalt to wage war, and he was 
the first lord of Tula whose inhabitants chose him for their chief on ac- 
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