full view, Scene 3

Description: "Hail Sons! The many labors which I have endured have two or three times imperiled my life (the five kings who are represented asleep in this mountain, envious because I was the first to go to meet the Spaniards and to inform myself regarding their religion, gathered to deliberate upon a mode of punishing me, in accordance with the order which the King Nezahualcollotzin [i.e. Nezahualcoyotzin] had given; they dragged me before the tribunal, where I was sentenced to enter clad into a very hot bath, where I should infallibly have perished if, by a miracle of God, I had not been delivered). When I saw myself free from danger I took to flight from my enemies. I found them sleeping and, awakening them suddenly with the sword which I held in my hand, so great was the surprise with which they were overcome that they begged my pardon and resolved to be baptized, for which reason I spared their lives. Learn to be valiant, oh sons of Cacalotl! Believe today in God, oh ye who decreed my death.." [Frederick Starr's English translation of the text found in the corresponding scene in the version he saw in the pueblo in 1898, published in his The Mapa de Cuauhtlantzinco (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1898), 12.]