Xochitonal (MH642v)
This black-line drawing for the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitonal ("Flower-Sun" or a mythical lizard of Mictlan) is attested here as a man's name. It shows a vertical flower with a tripartite sepal, a bulbous body, and three small petals at the top. The tonalli (sun, day, solar animating force) is shown with what may be meant as five sun rays, shooting out to the viewer's right from the blossom.
Stephanie Wood
Dio sochitonal
Diego Xochitonal
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flores, tonales, fuerza animadora del sol
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tonal(li), day, sun, solar animating force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli
James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) says Xochtonal is "Flower Fate," a name that is a poetic metaphor. Cuernavaca region, 1535–1545.
Flor-Tonal
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=367&st=image
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