tonalli (T1871:1)
This element of a sun (tonalli), representing a day, has been taken from a group of seven suns described in the companion text as "chicometica" (every seven days). This sun has a human-like face on it, in a frontal view, and the short rays of the aura radiate out from the oval face.
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This temporal reference is part of a discussion about tributes. This type of representation of the sun conveys European artistic influences. For comparison, see the tonatiuh glyph from the Codex Mendoza, below.
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suns, soles, días, days, calendarios, tributos
Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.
The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.