The Words of the Elders
Aztec Prayers, Orations and a Parent's Counsel, from the General History of Bernardino de Sahagún

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How the Aztecs taught their children to live: the prayers, orations and counsels of the elders, in a new translation.

“O valiant lord of ours, beneath whose wings we take refuge, defend ourselves and find shelter! Thou art invisible and not palpable, even as the night and the air.” The Nahua kept their wisdom in the huehuetlatolli, the words of the elders, learned by heart and spoken at every turning of life. Here a priest prays to Tezcatlipoca in a time of plague; the elders warn a new ruler what power will cost him; a father tells his son and a mother her daughter how to walk upright, speak well, work, love and endure; and a midwife greets a newborn child as a precious stone and a rich feather.

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