# nahua tonalli teyolia mictlan mesoamerica

Los mexicas tenían una visión compleja del cuerpo humano y su relación con el cosmos. Creían que el cuerpo estaba compuesto por tres fuerzas vitales: el tonalli, el teyolia y el ihiyotl. Estas fuerzas estaban asociadas con diferentes partes del cuerpo y con diferentes signos.
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2023-03-01

The three most important of these are the Tonalli (the destiny, represented as a serpent which resides in the head), the Teyollia (the personality, represented as a hummingbird which resides in the heart), and the Ihiyotl (represented as a breath which resides in the liver)

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2021-11-02

To the best of our knowledge this is the only codex image that shows the 3 spirit centres (head, heart and liver), leaving the body after death: Codex Laud (now called Codex More here...
https://t.co/TNkapAkNOM

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2021-09-13

We possess a Tonalli, a “soul” which is in our heads, linked to heat, the sun, and our destiny, one in our hearts, our Yollia, which is linked to the earth and our personalities, and an Ihiyotl, a spiritual essence which dwells in our livers and is linked to the underworld.

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2021-04-30

In ancient there was a general belief in 3 'animistic forces': tonalli (in the head), teyolia (heart) and ihiyotl (liver). On death the last two go journeying, but the stays around. Find out what its mission was - https://t.co/3bObgOt01M
(Image Codex Laud)

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2019-11-28