ID: 901001980 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001980	Record Type: Character/Person

	Tonatiuh (Mesoamerican deity)

Note: In Mesoamerican religion, Nahua sun deity of the fifth and final era (the Fifth Sun). In most myths of the Mesoamerican Nahua peoples, including those of the Aztecs, four eras preceded the era of Tonatiuh, each ended by cataclysmic destruction. Tonatiuh, or Ollin Tonatiuh, was associated with the eagle (at sunrise and sunset) and, in Aztec versions, with the deity Huitzilopochtli.

Names:

	Tonatiuh (Mesoamerican deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
		........<Inca iconography> (P)
		............<Inca characters> (P)
		................Tonatiuh (Mesoamerican deity) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Mesoamerican
	.....(Pre-Columbian Middle American styles and periods, Pre-Columbian (American), Americas, The, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	associated with .... Sun
	.....(Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy) (TGN)

Sources:

	Tonatiuh (Mesoamerican deity)
	................Nicholson, Mexican and Central American Mythology (1967)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Tonatiuh," accessed 21 July 2017