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NOTE: The english in this mini-FAQ has been corrected with the permission of the author, who is not a native english speaker. Any errors are probably my own. The Nahual: The mexican werecreature Occultist theories about the origin of human race said that men must have evolved across different animal, vegetable and mineral forms before reach the actual state. This is a primitive form to explain the werecreature origin. Mexico is known for their shamans, wizards and "curanderos" (tribal doctors), sometimes called Nahuales or Naguales. All cities and towns in Mexico have at least a Nahual. The aztec voice for Nahual is "Nahualli" that means "lo que es mi vestidura o piel" (Something that is my cloth or skin). And it refers to the abilty of the Nahual to morph himself into a werecreature (wolf, jaguar, lynx, bull, eagle, coyote, ...) That voice also refers nigromancy, secret and malice. Before the rise of the great Perhispanic civilizations like aztec and mayan, The yakis, tarahumaras and seris indians, who lived in the North of Mexico and South of US, around 900 A.C. had Nahuales. These civilizations were sited in part of the US states of California, New Mexico and Texas, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa. They belived that if a man can know his primitive spirit or Nahual, he can use it to cure the people and practice magic. Many primitive drawings in old caves show people like werewolves. In the aztec empire the Nahuales are protected for Tezcatllipoca: The aztec god of the war and sacrifice. The legend said that a Nahual can put away his skin and transform into a werecreature. Many aztec and colonial hunters said that in the night they killed an animal and the next day it turned into a man. "The Nahual only can morph in the night and he attack our babies with hellish spells" - said the people since the Colonial Time (1500-1800 A.C.). The Santa In quisition (the catholic tribunal that punished jews, witches, and the generally non-catholic) hunted Nahuales for many years. But people beleive in their power and sometimes protect them, especially in the indian towns. In modern days Carlos Castanneda, an Southamerican anthropologist that study th e Nahuales, published many books about they since 1960: Las ensennanzas de Don Juan (The teaching of Don Juan), Una realidad aparente (An apparent reallity) and Viaje a Ixtlan (Voyage to Ixtlan). But nobody has confirmed Don Juan's existance; many people say that he is only a fraud. He only knows a part of the secret rituals and herbs to morph into a werecreature, and the forms of how to know our inner Nahual. The books are very confused and have less info than the publicity shows. A Nahual have many spirits that protect him like the Native American indians. Basically all rites are more or less the same in all American civilizations. Today many people especially in the rural parts of Mexico believe in Nahuales, the topic was gaining interest from 1982, because the American geneticist Frank Greenberg of the Baylor College of Medicine discovers a Mexican family with a disease that show them as werewolves: their bodies have covered with hair like the classic werewolf film of Hollywood "The Wolfman" (1945). That family was segregated from Mexican society, they were forced to hide in thier home in Loreto's town, and can only obtain work in the circus. The legend of nahuals have dark parts hidden on the past, on the mexican magic cosmology. Maybe the truths about this topic will shown, but, until that moment all is possible. Information recompiled by:
http://www.acatlan.unam.mx/Person/Lobo/index.html and http://www.furnation.com/lobo
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