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NAGUALISM. A STUDY IN Native American Folk lore
and History.
BY DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D., D.Sc., Professor of American Archæology and Linguistics in the
University of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA:
MACCALLA & COMPANY, PRINTERS, 237 9 DOCK STREET.
1894
Nagualism. A Study in Native American Folk lore and History. By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D. ( Read before the American Philosophical Society, Jan'y 5, 1894. )
CONTENTS.
1. The words Nagual , Nagualism , Nagualist . 2. The Earliest
Reference to Nagualism. 3. The Naualli of the Aztecs; their Classes
and Pretended Powers. 4. The Sacred Intoxicants; the Peyotl , the
Ololiuhqui , the Teopatli , the Yax Ha , etc. 5. Clairvoyance and
Telepathy during Intoxication. 6. The Naualli of Modern Mexico. 7. The
Tonal and the Tonalpouhque ; the Genethliac System of the Nahuas. 8.
The Aztec Sodality of "Master Magicians." 9. The Personal Guardian
Spirit. 10. Folk lore of the Mixe Indians. 11. Astrological Divination of the
Zapotecs. 12. Similar Arts of the Mixtecs. 13. Nagualism in Chiapas, as
Described by Bishop Nuñez de la Vega. 14. Nagualism Among the Quiches,
Cakchiquels and Pokonchis of Guatemala. 15. The Metamorphoses of
Gukumatz. 16. Modern Witchcraft in Yucatan and Central America; the
Zahoris and Padrinos. 17. Fundamental Principles of Nagualism, Hatred of the Whites and of
Christianity. 18. Its Organization and Extent; its Priesthood. 19. Its
Influence in the Native Revolts against the Spanish Power. 20. Exalted
Position of Woman in Nagualism. 21. This a Survival from Ancient Times.
22. A Native Joan of Arc. 23. Modern Queens of Nagualism. 24. The Cave temples and the Cave gods; Oztoteotl, Tepeyollotl, Votan,
etc. 25. The Sacred Numbers, 3 and 7. 26. Fire Worship of the
Nagualists. 27. Fire Rights Connected with the Pulque. 28. Fire
Ceremonies of the Modern Mayas. 29. Secret Significance of Fire Worship.
30. The Chalchiuites, or Sacred Green Stones. 31. The Sacred Tree and
the Tree of Life. 32. The Cross and its Symbolic Meaning. 33. The
Lascivious Rites of the Nagualists. 34. Their Relation to the Symbols of
the Serpent and the Phallus. 35. Confusion of Christian and Native Religious Ideas; Prayers of Nagual
Priests. Their Symbolic Language. 36. The Inquisition and Nagualism. 37.
Etymology of the Word Nagual . 38. The Root Na in the Maya, Zapotec
and Nahuatl Languages. 39. The Doctrine of Animal Transformation in the
Old World. 40. The Doctrine of Personal Spirits in the Old World. 41.
Scientific Explanations of Nagual Magic. 42. Conclusion.
REPRINTED FEB. 23, 1894, FROM PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC., VOL. XXXIII.
=1.= The words, a nagual , nagualism , a nagualist , have been current
in English prose for more than seventy years; they are found during that
time in a variety of books published in England and the United
States,[4 ] yet are not to be discovered in any dictionary of the
English language; nor has Nagualism a place in any of the numerous
encyclopædias or "Conversation Lexicons," in English, French, German or
Spanish. This is not owing to its lack of importance, since for two hundred years
past, as I shall show, it has been recognized as a cult, no less
powerful than mysterious, which united many and diverse tribes of Mexico
and Central America into organized opposition against the government and
the religion which had been introduced from Europe; whose members had
acquired and were bound together by strange faculties and an occult
learning, which placed them on a par with the famed thaumaturgists and
theodidacts of the Old World; and which preserved even into our own days
the thoughts and forms of a long suppressed ritual... Continue reading book >>
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