Tonalli

Day-sign heat · birth calendar force

Tonalli is the day-linked life-heat and animating force that receives a person's calendrical sign in Nahua thought. It is placed at the crown here to preserve the distinction from the six day-sign zones below; this point repeats the force vocabulary only so the calendar and anthropology can be read together.

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Point 1 of 3 in Aztec Tonalpohualli — Body Days

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex (primary_canonical)

Book IV, The Divinatory Art, documents the day-sign count and the birth-day reading that gives a person a calendrical tonalli; the crown coordinate is supported by separate Nahua body testimony rather than Book IV alone.

Alfredo López Austin, The Human Body and Ideology (scholarly_modern)

The modern analysis distinguishes tonalli as a Nahua animating entity associated with heat, day, and head; this point is a normalized front-view rendering of that reconstruction.

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