tlachialoni - vision apparatus

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

Is this a purely theoretical instrument, like old European tales about magic mirrors which showed remote things instead of merely reflections? Or did the Aztecs or Mayas know about simple single reading lenses?

Citlalyani.

--- On Sat, 21/1/12, David Wright <dcwright at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
The tlachiyaloni (tlachiyalo:ni, tla + chiya + -lo: + -ni, "instrument for
looking", also called tlachiyaltopilli [see Sahagún 1974-1982, vol. 2, book
1, p. 30, for the variant possessor form "tlachieltopile"]) is depicted as a
precious disk with radial divisions and a central orifice, sometimes with
other elements, mounted on a handle. Certain deities
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