Lord's Prayer, Molina Version

[John F. Schwaller]

In response to requests for various historic prayers in Nahuatl, what
follows is the version of the Lord's Prayer composed by Fr. Alonso de
Molina and published in 1546 as part of his Doctrina Cristiana Breve

	Totatzine in ilhuicac timoyetztica ma yecteneualo in motocatzin.  Ma
uallauh in motlatocayotzin.  Ma chiualo in tlalticpac in ticmonequiltia in
iuh chiualo in ilhuicac.  Yn totlaxcal in momoztlae totechmonequi ma axcan
xitechmomaquili.  Ma xitechmopopolhuili in totlatlacol in iuh
tiquimpopolhuia in techtlatlacalhuia.  Macamo xitechmotlalcauili inic amo
ypan tiuetzizque in teneyeyecoltiliztli.  Ma xitechmomaquixtili in iuicpa
in amoqualli.  Mayuh muchiua.


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