Tonal (MH647v)

Tonal (MH647v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tonal ("Day," "Sun," or "Solar Animating Force") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph looks something like a flower with four petals or a four-leaf clover, but it has a black dot on each of the four segments, and there is a circle in the center. It also has a black dot in the center. This quincunx shape may intentionally recall the sun (tonalli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Compare this Tonal with other examples of tonalli glyphs (e.g., Atonal, etc.), where shapes range from four dots to a flower-like shape. One may also search "tonalli" in the quick-search box and see examples that more obviously try to represent a sun.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego tonal

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tonal

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
quincunx or quatrefoil
shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement
symmetry
Keywords: 

días, soles, quincunces, flores, simétrico, simétrica, fuerza animadora derivada del sol, poder vital, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tonal(li), day, sun, or personal solar animating force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Poder Vital Personal

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=377&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tonalli (Mglb4v)

tonalli (Mdz7v)

tonalli (MH559v)

Tonal (MH528v)

Tonaloxochitl (MH559v)

Xochitonal (MH609r)

Acatonal (Verg8v)

Tonal (MH528v)

Atonal (MH554v)

Tonal (MH882r)