Teyolía is an animistic entity of the human being which was 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.
After the Spanish conquest the term was assumed by Spaniard translators as equal to the word "ánima" and "alma" (soul),[1] which have some reminiscences in current expressions among modern indigenous.
[5] According to the Aztec thought, the teyolía was an animic entity that gives life to the human beings located in the heart and, therefore, inside every person's chest.
[6][7] The Aztecs believed that after death the teyolía was the part of the man that separated from the body remained immortal.
The teyolía remained some days on the surface of earth be carried afterwards to one of any different destinations in which the Aztecs believed.