Nahual (MH873r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nahual (short for nahualli, "Shape-Shifting Spirit") is attested here as a man's name. It shows what appears to be a human face in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Above this face, is another face with a large nose, an eye, and additional parts that flow down the back of the human head. The latter is probably meant to be the spirit.
Stephanie Wood
The nahualli was typically visualized as being located on the top of the human head. See some other examples in this collection, below.
Stephanie Wood
Juo naval
Juan Naval
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nahuales, transformación, sobrenatural, espíritus, cabezas, nombres de hombres
nahual(li), a shape-shifting spirit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahualli
Nahual
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 873r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=818&st=image
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