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by Micha F. Lindemans

An Aztec tutelary spirit in the shape of an animal or a plant. Every god and human has his personal Nagual with whom he shares his fate until death. The Nagual of, for instance, Huitzilopochtli is a hummingbird and that of Quetzalcoatl is a feathered snake.