See an image that represents tlatlacolli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
yeçe ca ye catzahuatihuitze in huehue tlatlacolli, in impan quitlacatilia in innanhuan = yet they come dirtied with the ancient sin in which their mothers gave them birth
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 143.
Nican ca in chicontetl temictiani tlatlacolli Xicyta xicilnamiqui catlehuatl, in oticchiuh in ypan otihuetz? Inic çe Nepoaliztli, inic ome, Teoyehuacatiliztli inic yey Tlailpaquiliztli, inic nahui Tlahuelli, in[ic] macuilli Xixicuiyotl, inic chiquaçen, Nexicolliztli, inic chicome Tlatzihuillztli? = Here are the seven mortal sins. See and remember which of them you have committed and fallen into. First, pride. Second, avarice. Third, lust. Fourth, anger. Fifth, gluttony. Sixth, envy. Seventh, laziness.
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 119.
tipehuaz in huehuei in temictiani tlatlacoli, zatepan tictenehuaz in tepitoton, in azo teca otimononotz otihuetzcac oticamanalo &c. = beginning with the great and mortal sins, afterwards mentioning the small ones (perhaps you spoke ill of another or laughed at him or made jokes about him, etc.)
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 63.
yntla aca tlatlacolli o ypan vetzi ma nepanotl ximotlaçotlacan ximonepanpopolhuican = If someone falls into mortal sin may you mutually love and forgive yourselves
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 106–107.
yn cenca temamauhti tlatlacolli =a very frightful mortal sin (Central Mexico, 1552)
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 86–87.
Cuix nixilotl nechititzayanaz. Iquac mitoa: intla aca iuiui onican oichtec, otetlaxin, anoce omomecati, anoce itla oc centlamantli tlatlaculli oquichiuh = Am I an ear of corn that they can scrape the kernels off my belly? This was said when someone was in trouble. He had committed robbery or adultery, or he seduced someone, or did something that was wrong
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 114–15.
tlahtlacolli = misdeed, error
Burkhart finds the term imperfect for sin, because tlahtlacolli "though used for moral misdeeds, also encompassed a broad range of accidents, crimes and other breakdowns of established order. It failed to convey the sense of personal moral responsibility, with its accompanying burden of guilt, that sin bears in Christian theology."
Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 170.
huehuey tlatlacolli = literally old error, old damage; in the play Holy Wednesday, it was paired with pecado original
Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 201.
atle notlatlacol = there was no fault on my part
Sarah Cline, The Testaments of Culhuacan, in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.
notlacoli notlapilchiahua = my sins and evil doing (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1731)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 152–153.
yn notlatlacol ma nechmopopolhuiliz = let (him) pardon me my sins
itlatlacol = his fault
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.
Cuix nixilotl nechititzayanaz. Iquac mitoa: intla aca iuiui onican oichtec, otetlaxin, anoce omomecati, anoce itla oc centlamantli tlatlaculli oquichiuh = Am I an ear of corn that they can scrape the kernels off my belly? This was said when someone was in trouble. He had committed robbery or adultery, or he seduced someone, or did something that was wrong.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 114–115.
anozo in tlein tlatlaculli: azo tetlaximaliztli, anozo ichtequiliztli. = Or perhaps someone committed a sin, or adultery.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 174–175.