What is "teyolia"

Teyolía was an animic entity of the human being resided physically located in the heart according to the cosmovision of the ancient Aztecs and in the beliefs of some modern indigenous groups from Mexico and Central America.

Together with the tonalli and the ihíyotl was one of the three strengths that brings life and health to the humans. It was the part of the human being considered as the one that trascended to afterlife to different realms according ones way of death. After the Spanish conquest the term was assumed by Spaniard translators as equal to the word «ánima» and «alma» (soul), which have some reminiscences in current expressions among modern indigenous.