a personal name; the name of a ruler (often seen with the honorific suffix: Atonaltzin) in Coixtlahuaca, a Mixtec kingdom, in the fifteenth century; his Mixtec name was Dzawindanda; he died when the Aztecs conquered Coixtlahuaca. He was also sometimes called Atonal II.
This name was also held by Nahua male tribute payers, as named in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. See our Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
Anastasia Kalyuta, in Mexicolore, writes: "It’s interesting that in the sources examined only nine pre-Hispanic rulers are mentioned by their day sign names, and one of them Ce Atl (Atonal) wasn’t Nahua but Mixtec, whose real name might have been Dzawindanda (Lehmann 1938:253). We should bear in mind here that day sign names of rulers and other persons of importance were deliberately omitted to protect them, for these names carried their tonalli (fate/destiny) which could be damaged or even destroyed through sorcery. At least one native historian Chimalpahin attributes the premature death of a once mighty ruler to an attack on his tonalli by his enemies (Chimalpahin 2003:2:317)."