Scribd
Upload
98 views1 page

Tonatiuh's Image: TONATIUH - The Aztec God of The Sun, Fertility and Sacrifice

Tonatiuh was the Aztec god of the sun, fertility, and sacrifice. He is often depicted wearing circular earrings, a jewel-tipped nose bar, and a blond wig, along with a yellow headband decorated with jade rings. Tonatiuh is frequently shown in the company of the solar disk with his head in its center or associated with an eagle grasping human hearts. One of the most famous images of Tonatiuh appears on the famous Aztec calendar stone depicting his face at the center representing the current world and with his tongue as a sacrificial knife.

Uploaded by

dplpthk1502
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
98 views1 page

Tonatiuh's Image: TONATIUH - The Aztec God of The Sun, Fertility and Sacrifice

Tonatiuh was the Aztec god of the sun, fertility, and sacrifice. He is often depicted wearing circular earrings, a jewel-tipped nose bar, and a blond wig, along with a yellow headband decorated with jade rings. Tonatiuh is frequently shown in the company of the solar disk with his head in its center or associated with an eagle grasping human hearts. One of the most famous images of Tonatiuh appears on the famous Aztec calendar stone depicting his face at the center representing the current world and with his tongue as a sacrificial knife.

Uploaded by

dplpthk1502
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

TONATIUH - The Aztec God of the Sun, Fertility and Sacrifice

Tonatiuh’s Image
In the few surviving Aztec books known as codexes, Tonatiuh is illustrated wearing circular dangling
earrings, a jewel-tipped nose bar and a blond wig.

He wears a yellow headband decorated with jade rings, and he is often associated with an eagle, sometimes
depicted in the codexes in conjunction with Tonatiuh in the act of grasping human hearts with its claws.
Tonatiuh is frequently illustrated in the company of the solar disk: sometimes his head is set directly in the
center of that disk. In the Borgia Codex, Tonatiuh's face is painted in vertical bars in two different shades of
red.

One of the most famous images of Tonatiuh is that represented on the face of the stone of Axayacatl, the
famous Aztec calendar stone, or more properly Sun Stone. At the center of the stone, the face of Tonatiuh
represents the current Aztec world, the Fifth Sun, whereas the surrounding symbols represent the calendric
signs of the past four eras. On the stone, Tonatiuh's tongue is a sacrificial flint or obsidian knife protruding
outwards.

You might also like