tonalli (MH528v)
This black-line drawing of the tonalli (day, sun, solar personal animating force) element of the compound personal name Tonal has a quincunx shape, something like a flower with four petals with a smaller circle in the middle.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
day, día, sun, sol, cardinal points, cosmos, puntos cardinales, tonal

tonal(li), sun, day, or a solar-derived animating force located in the human head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli
El Sol, o Una Fuerza Animadora Personal
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 528v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=136&st=image.
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