Acatonal (Verg8v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Acatonal (“Reed Day,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a reed (acatl) plant with a reed arrow in front of it (perhaps for added assurance that this is a reed). This reed is much like the one that usually appears in the calendar. Below the reed is a glyph for tonalli (day, sun, or what Allison Caplan calls the "solar animating force"), with four points and four round circles. Water spurts out to the left from the top of the tonalli sign and curves downward, with black lines of current (movement) and droplets/beads at the end of each of four small streams. The water (atl) provides a phonetic complement for the starting sound of acatl, and it can do the same for the final -al of tonal.