Sweeping industriously could be a sign that one had behaved well in the view of the gods and would therefore receive favors, such as a pregnancy. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 141.
xiccujtivetzi in ochpanoaztli in ochpanalli, itlan xaquj: maca xiiamanjxto, maca xitotojxto = Seize the broom: be diligent with the sweeping; be not tepid, be not lukewarm (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 95.