tonal
Also called tona, tono, tonalli, nagual.
The animal soul a Mesoamerican person is born with, so joined to them that when one dies the other shortly follows.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Mesoamerican mythology
- Region
- Mesoamerica (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Hearth-Bound
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Traits
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Behaviour
- Ordinary object by day animate spirit by night
why
In its folk form the spirit is usually benevolent toward its own human, offering guidance and good fortune, while remaining to everybody else the thing that haunts the night and brings disease and misfortune.
Utility powers
- Spiritual familiar
why
The tonal is the belief, found across much of Middle America, that every human person is accompanied lifelong by an animal counterpart, and that the two share a single fate closely enough that the death of either takes the other within a short time.