Speaking Nahuatl, part #6 of a video recording

English: Ariel Neptali is our youngest son
Spanish: Arkiel Nepatli es nuestra hijo menor
Nahuatl: Oriel es san mas pilentain

Speaking Nahuatl, part #5 of a video recording

English: Fabiola is our daughter
Spanish: Fabiola es nuestra hija
Nahuatl: yen huan tocone sihuatl

Speaking Nahuatl, part #4 of a video recording

English: Victor is our oldest son
Spanish: Victor es nuestra hijo mayor
Nahuatl: Victor yenhuan tocone yecoyotl

Speaking Nahuatl, part #3 of a video recording

English: Octavia is the mother of this family
Spanish: Octavia es madre del familia
Nahuatl: Octavia yehua nantli de chanecacame

Speaking Nahuatl, part #2 of a video recording

English: I am the father of this family.
Spanish: Soy padre del familia.
Nahuatl: nahuan nitlati de chanecacahuan

Speaking Nahuatl, part #8 of a video recording

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English: See you later
Spanish: hasta luego
Nahuatl: totasque

Introduction of Nahuatl speaking famiy, part 1 of 8

English: This is the family of Tomas Jimenez.
Spanish: Es La Familia de Tomas Jimenez;
Nahuatl: ichanecahuan

Speaking Nahuatl #1

Un Tonalli, El Sol, the Sun, once malinalli for those using ritual calendar.

Painting, Nahuatl text, Spanish text by Tomas Jimenez from Guerrero who
has many happy memories of life in the countryside.

Nahuatl: Se telpacatzin kinhuican iborregos xtlahuacan yehuan itekiyo nochi Tonaltii xpacame llehuen itempa atl kitequi xochitl un llehuanmen oquitlatiquen aman cuican ipan incha. Unsequime coconen tlapilohuan.

Spanish: Un nino llevan al campo los borregos. Este es su trabajo todos las dias, hay senoritas que van a la orilla de rio a cortar flores lo que ellas plantaron para llevar a casa y otros ninos pescando con el anzuelo.

English: A child takes sheep to the fields. This is his work every day, there are girls who go to the edge of the river to cut flowers that they planted for taking to the house. Other boys are fishing with fishing hooks.

Un macehualti de un calpa

Painting, Nahuatl text, Spanish text by Tomas Jimenez from Guerrero who
has many happy memories of life in the countryside.

Nahuatl: Un masehualti de un calpa llehue campa atl para concuisque un tlin conisique ipan incha, inima ica tlatequisque xtla quipiya tliinca ritlilanasque un atl pura campa incha. Un tlacame comantica untlama oinqui conkui tlicontli.

Spanish: La gente del pueblo van al rio para traer agua tanto para tomar y regar las plantas que ellos tiene porque no hay agua potable en este lugar. Los hombres ellos aveces van a pescar o ir a la lena.

Englsh: The people of the town go to the river to take water for drinking and watering the plants that they have because there is no potable water at this place. The men themselves sometimes go fishing or to the wood.

Time of harvest, painted from memories of October.

Painting, Nahuatl text, Spanish text by Tomas Jimenez from Guerrero who
has many happy memories of life in the countryside.

Nahuatl: aman tlacuilos un tin otlan

tacome niman sihuame pehua tlacui, tequiti tepec mestli octubre icuac un masehualme pehua kitequi ajonli, nopahuehuiya imihuan ichanecanhua ipan un tequitl.

Spanish: Es tiempo de la sega

Ahora hombres y mujeres empieza a recojer la cosecha, trabajando en el campo. Es el mes de octubre cuando la gente empieza a cortar el ajojonli. Se apoyan todo la familia para el trabajo.

English: The time of harvest

At this time men and women begin to collect the harvest, working in the field. It is the month of October when people start to cut the sesame. All the family helps in the work.

1 Ehecatl, 28 feb 2008, Manzanita in Bloom

Nahuatl:
English: Flowers of Manzanita
Spanish: Flores de Manzanita

This tree is in the inner patio of Callejon Valle de Maiz #5A San Miguel de Allende, Gto.

The observation of natural events; toltec wisdom.

The pictures on this blog demonstrate careful observation of natural events which are at the root of Toltec wisdom. the pictures also provide a starting place for learning the Nahuatl language. The pictures and definitions can be used as a picture dictionary, a 'pictionary'.

Nimili in ocachi niquitzinin de nochten

In Spanish: La milpa mia es la mas chica de todo.
In English: My field is the smallest of all.

This complicated caption was assisted by one of my dictionaries which had an example on page 180 of a complete expression. I have only changed 'nehua' to 'nimili'. This dictionary has been very useful because of the numerous phrases that demonstrate use of the words. The key word providing this phrase was 'quitzinin' which I found in the spanish-to-nahuatl section of the book under the word 'pequeno'. This illustrates the geat utility of this dictionary which has no English but can be used with an English-to-Spanish list of key words.

This is also a picture of my rooftop photographic laboratory that provides the model seeds sprouting at the end of February 2008.

13 Cipactli, 27 Feb 2008, Bean sprouting

The day is 13 Cipactli, 27 Feb. 2008 and the bean is sprouting. It was planted with the corn
and today was its first appearance.

13 Cipactli, 27 Feb 2008, Cherry tree blossom is beginning.

The Cherry tree blossom is beginning. Click on the picture and the entire image will appear. You can scroll to see a larger view of the flower bud and baby leaves.

Elotl in toctli, corn sprouting, el Maiz brotando

Today the new corn plant emerged in the planter on our roof at Callejon Valle de Maiz, 5A, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.

The date on my computer calendar is 25 Feb, 20o8. This corresponds to Tonalli 11 Quiahuitl in trecena 1 Atl which you can locate on the sacred calendar which I have posted at
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d7b4c3p_68f4jp6qz9

This corn kernel was placed into the ground on a Saturday 16 Feb, 20o7 which corresponds to the tonalli 2 Itzcuintli in the same trecena as you can see on the Sacred calender referenced in the link above.

There is an interesting website about sprouting http://www.fotosearch.es/photovivid/brotando/UNP116/

Tonatiuh iquizayan, Sun comes out,

Picture that is called 'sunrise' in English.

Foto del Legada del sol in Spanish.

Tonatiuh iquizayan in Nahuatl, 'place where sun comes out' in literal English.

The camera was pointed toward the rising sun from my home on the edge of a decline into the valley of the Rio Laja. By pointing the camera away from the sun I captured a picture of the valley below.

This second picture is to the west in English,

to the 'poniente' in Spanish,

and 'Tonatiuh icalaquian' in Nahuatl, 'place where the sun goes in' in literal English.

This is an interesting pair of pictures in Nahuatl as they are described exactly in the native language. There are alternate dictionary translations of the English words East and West but I provide these more pictorial translations.

This is the beginning of an interesting day where the calendar keepers predict that there will be a total eclipse of the moon soon after it rises tonight in the East. This sort of prediction has been used to claim that they possess magical powers. I do not claim magical power but I do claim that the understanding of differing languages is improved when I can be somewhat intuitive in using a camera for producing instructive pictures.