Louise M. Burkhart reproduces a Nahuatl proverb, "It is slippery, it is slick on the earth."
Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Monologue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1989), frontispiece
Tlaalahui, tlapetzcahui in tlalticpac.
It is slippery, it is slick on the earth.
—Nahuatl proverb