Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion, myth, folklore and anthropology. It is a belief found in many indigenous Mesoamerican cultures...
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Look up tonal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tonal may refer to: Tonal (mythology), a concept in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican...
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Nagual (category Aztec mythology and religion)
have specific tonals such as the jaguar or puma. In Aztec mythology the god Tezcatlipoca was the protector of nagualism, because his tonal was the jaguar...
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Agathodaemon Aku-aku Anima and animus Daemon (classical mythology) Familiar spirit Fylgja Nagual Tonal (mythology) Totem Robert Butler (3 December 2007). "An Interview...
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Wayob (category Maya mythology and religion)
head of a defeated opponent. Familiar spirit Huay Chivo Power animal Tonal (mythology) Tutelary spirit Diccionario Maya Cordemex 1980, p. 916. Redfield &...
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Toltec pantheon of deities such as sky spirits, animal spirits and Tonal mythology, Nagual mysticism, and treaties. They also, in common with their Mexican...
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based on Greek mythology and see Kratos follow a path of vengeance against the Olympian gods; the later games are based on Norse mythology and see Kratos...
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God of War (2005 video game) (category Video games based on Greek mythology)
God of War series and the third chronologically. Loosely based on Greek mythology, it is set in ancient Greece with vengeance as its central motif. The...
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Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman mythology. In 1935–36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff...
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patient that run parallel to the crew's experiences. The film marked a tonal departure for Anderson, who previously directed only romantic comedies....
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Lao script, an abugida that evolved from ancient Tai scripts. Lao is a tonal language, where the pitch or tone of a word can alter its meaning, and is...
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I (disambiguation) (section Mythology)
subcarrier I (band), a Norwegian heavy metal band I, a diatonic function in tonal music theory i (A.R. Kane album), 1989 I (Ben Lester album), 2019 I (Cilvaringz...
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(becoming). West Africa Akan mythology Ashanti mythology (Ghana) Dahomey (Fon) mythology Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon) Igbo mythology (Nigeria) Serer religion...
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continued to develop their language. It is described as long and sonorous, a tonal language somewhat like a woodwind instrument. Only the Ents spoke Entish...
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in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan...
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lightness and darkness of areas of a picture, graded from white to black. Tonal arrangement is a very significant feature of some paintings. Chiaroscuro...
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ones"; Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times wrote "Feels like a kind of tonal companion piece to Syfy's great Resident Alien, with its winning combination...
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Tonalli (category Aztec mythology and religion)
Tonalli (see also: Tonal) plays a multiplicity of roles; acting as a day sign, body part, and a symbol of the sun's warmth. Ancient Nahua people believed...
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which was inherited from Proto-Indo-European and has evolved into the tonal accents of modern Swedish and Norwegian, which in turn have evolved into...
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battle scenes in film, combining "technical mastery, sweeping spectacle and tonal balance". In the film, 10,000 of Saruman's Uruk-hai (with no Orcs of other...
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the Phrygian octave species does not sufficiently illumine the melody's tonal structure. The song's pitch centers (notes of emphasis according to frequency...
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2016 controversy, demonstrated their commitment to her, irrespective of a tonal shift in her artistry and public perception. Billboard wrote the unprecedented...
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James McNeill Whistler (category Tonalism)
"arrangements", "harmonies", and "nocturnes", emphasizing the primacy of tonal harmony. His most famous painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871)...
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Chinese folk music—traditional instruments, the pentatonic scale, and ancient tonal melodies—with Western romantic harmonies and orchestral arrangements. The...
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accented acute syllables had rising or falling pitch differed by dialect). The tonal accents that emerged from this process are called "acute accent" and "circumflex...
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Tumbuka language (category Non-tonal languages in tonal families)
that Chewa is a tonal language, whereas in Tumbuka there are no distinctions of tone between one word and another. Tumbuka has a tonal accent but in a...
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So the sentence, ọ maka can mean "he, she or it is beautiful". Igbo is a tonal language. Tone varies by dialect but in most dialects there seem to be three...
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Californication and By the Way, Frusciante derived the technique of creating tonal texture through chord patterns from post-punk guitarist Vini Reilly of the...
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Spider-Man, and features a narrative inspired by its long-running comic book mythology which is also derived from various adaptations in other media. It is the...
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