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Jimeno Álvarez

tonali
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Gomez Martinez ( 2002:77 ) It explains that the tonali is " the mood that they have everything [...], it gives them power and makes them immortal force. " According to Gómez Martínez, the human being has three mental entities ( tonali, ijyotl, and yolkayotl ). The tonali " is linked with the Sun and lies on the head, this entity does not disappear with the death and after travelling by different levels of the cosmos, returns to return in another life, apparently has some relationship with the notion of Christian soul, in terms of its 34 immortality; ( 41 2002:77;. According to this author, the living beings 40 tonali; humans, animals and plants ) and things " is one of the reasons why the ritualistic cut images with anthropomorphic forms [the amatlatektli or tlatektli, scrapbooking paper]; but to distinguish them from the gods and supernatural forces, these lack of sacred power. The representation of any vegetable, roca, job, car and room tool, tonal only have coherence and importance in relation to the divinities " (Gomez Martinez 2002:41 78.

  



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