tonalli (MH544v)
This black-line drawing of the tonalli (day, sun, solar personal animating force) element of the compound personal name Atonal has a quincunx shape, something like a flower with four petals with a short stick (ray of the sun?) between each one. Each petal also has a small circle in the center, and a fifth small circle appears at the place where the four petals come together. These small circles keep the eye moving around the glyph, seemingly adding shimmer or movement
Stephanie Wood
This glyph has some iconographic overlap with Teochimati and flower shape on some Icuilol (to paint) glyphs.
Stephanie Wood
1560
day, día, sun, sol, cardinal points, cosmos, puntos cardinales, tonal
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/TonalMH544vElementFromAtonal.png?itok=lCHxYOPj)
tonal(li), day, sun, energy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 554v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=188&st=image.
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