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Fighting against the Night, Tonatiuh is weakened and loses energy.
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Fighting against the Night, Tonatiuh is weakened and loses energy.
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They even tried with success the same stratagem upon Cortes, throwing before his camp, to which he had at last retreated, certain bleeding heads, which they said, were those of 'Tonatiuh' (Alvarado), Sandoval, and the other
South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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Less ambient, but also considerably less industrial, "Tonatiuh" sounds to me as a more crafted and detailled album, with stronger instrumentations and percussions which, even though they still carry the industrial/electronica touch of both projects, are less on the foreground and leave more space for the rest of the music to breathe.
Ad Noiseam adnoiseam 2010
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Indeed, even the face of the Sun God Tonatiuh in the centre has been interpreted as a symbol of earth rather than the sun.
Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III 2008
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The term Sun Stone is perhaps more appropriate than Calendar Stone because the only reference to the calendar is to the twenty day names of the Aztec month in the innermost of the concentric rings surrounding the face of Tonatiuh.
Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III 2008
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For example, in another Internet article on the Aztec Sun Stone, one writer misspelled the Nahuatl word for the Sun, Tonatiuh, as Tonatiub, but got it right in the next sentence.
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Beyer, however, points out several representations of the face of Tonatiuh as the sun in pictographic codices of central Mexico that show the same configuration as the Sun Stone, including the surrounding Glyph 4 Movement (Nahui Ollin).
Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III 2008
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A case in point is the symbolism of the Aztec Calendar or Sun Stone, in particular the central pattern of the Glyph 4 Movement (Nahui Ollin), which frames the visage of Tonatiuh, the Sun God, and represents the Five Ages or Suns of Aztec cosmology.
Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III 2008
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The last (5) is the Fifth Sun, which, on the Sun Stone, comprises the surrounding four preceding ages plus the central figure of Tonatiuh.
Mesoamerican religious concepts: Aztec symbolism, part III 2008
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