Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The development of the belief in personal guardians as found in Mexico and in the adjoining countries of Central America.

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  • noun Alternative form of nahualism.

Etymologies

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nagual +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • I would say the most profound moments of my life have been studying South American shamanism or 'nagualism', producing jazz music, and listening to Hungarian folk music.

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  • = 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

    Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

  • Situacion Actual de la Raza Indigena de Mexico_ (Mexico, 1864), recognizes how almost impossible it is to extirpate their faith in this nagualism.

    Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

  • In my view, the future is luminous, because it belongs to awareness, which for sorcerers means that it belongs to nagualism.

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  • So, as a method of investigation, nagualism is totally reliable.

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  • During this talk, he referred to nagualism as a body of practices and ideas, talked about its historical development, - and maintained that modern man has been granted an incredible opportunity through the revelations of the sorcerers.

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  • During this talk, he referred to nagualism as a body of practices and ideas, talked about its historical development, - and maintained that modern man has been granted an incredible opportunity through the revelations of the sorcerers.

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  • In my view, the future is luminous, because it belongs to awareness, which for sorcerers means that it belongs to nagualism.

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  • \ "Since its starting point is experimentation, we can say that nagualism is not a belief system, but a science.

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  • \ "The moment ideologies - including nagualism - become widespread, they become cultural mafias, schools to make people sleepy.

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