Ihiyotl
Liver breath · passion and shadow force
Ihiyotl is the breath-essence or passion-bearing force reconstructed at the liver, and it is not a day-sign. Its presence here prevents the tonalpohualli map from collapsing calendar fate into a single undifferentiated energy field, while the wide radius records the contested locus.
Point 3 of 3 in Aztec Tonalpohualli — Body Days
Cross-tradition overlaps
- Ihiyotl ↔ Ihiyotl (distance 0.005)
Sources
Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex (primary_canonical)
Book X records ihiyotl vocabulary in descriptions of breath, anger, envy, and harmful emanation; the liver coordinate is less direct than the heart testimony and is rendered through the scholarly synthesis.
Alfredo López Austin, The Human Body and Ideology (scholarly_modern)
Chapter 6 reconstructs ihiyotl as a breath/passion entity associated with the liver; this record marks that reconstruction as interpretive.