Tonal
Tonal denotes a Mesoamerican soul or animal familiar bound to a person’s life and fate, distinct from a transforming nahual.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Concept
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Mesoamerican mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- tonal is Mesoamerican mythology
why
The tonal is the belief, found across much of Middle America …