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nacechiy: (v) To bear, to give birth (sp). PSL
nacekuy: (v) To be born (sp). PSL
nacu: A participle used to give a reciprocal or mutual meaning. HOI
nagual, nahual (Nahuatl): (1) (n) A nagual is a person with a double energy configuration. CCPB A man with an ego is driven by psychological desires. The nagual has none. He receives orders from some ineffable source that cannot be discussed. He cannot be offended, jealous, possessive -- he can't be anything. CCDM A conduit of the spirit. CCPS (2) The nagual is a non-entity, some ineffable source that cannot be discussed. There's a perennial force that exists in the universe, like gravity. It's not a psychological state. It is a confluence of forces ... It is felt when there are no longer any attachments. CCDM The unknown, as opposed to the tonal, which is the known. AVO (3) One of the two aspects of the shaman’s relationship between man and beast. (See, tonal, def. 3) Nagual describes the technique of shapeshifting and the sorcerers who had learned its secrets; such individuals were greatly feared. IAWS (See, jaguar, double, runauturuncu.)
nagual axis (Mex-Eng):(n) East-West on a medicine wheel. AVO
nagualismo (Mex): (n) The practice of nagualism, a way to break the psychological conditioning of the cognitive division that keeps us cut off from our sources. The world, as we perceive it, was formed a priori. It was given to us (the tonal). CCPB (See, nagual.)
nahual: See, nagual.
nanachikuy: (v) To regret, to resent. QP
nanachiy: (v) To make hurt. PSL
nanay: (v) To hurt. (n) Physical pain. PSL
nanay thanichiq: (n) Painkillers. QP
napa: (n) The principle ensign of Inca sovereignty was a sheep of the country, the color white, with a red body cloth, on the top ear-rings of gold, and on the breast a plate with red badges such as was worn by rich Incas when they went abroad; carried in front of all on a pole with a cross of plumes of feathers. HOI [Other sources give the napa as a white llama.]
napani: (v) To salute. HOI
napay: (n) A salutation. RS
naupa, nawpa: See, ñawpa.
Nayamlap: (n) The name of a legendary figure in the history of the people of the Lambayeque Valley on the north coast of Peru, the leader of primordial sea people that invaded the valley at a time in pre-history. [This is a familiar figure in artwork of the Tawantinsuyu.] MAN
nayra pacha (AYM): (n) Ancient time. ASD
New Sunrise: (See, pachacuti) The beginning of a 500-year cycle. It is very special because the first light is the food for the heart; it brings life force energy, it is the moment when we awaken and remember the essence of who we are, the essence of the creation. In this current cycle of the Sunrise, the huacas and energy vortices are reactivating. IGMP
nia hituatatha (AYM): (n) After this life. ASD
nierika, nierica (Huichol): (n) There is a door in our minds that remains hidden until the moment of death. This nierika is an access or cosmic interface between ordinary and non-ordinary realities. (See, conscious death.) AHN A circular object made from stone, clay, wood or yarn and decorated with symbols from personal experience; anything of personal importance. After a nierika is created, it is used as a focal point to center thoughts during intense meditation. This ceremony helps find a solution to a problem or upcoming challenge, as well as clarify the journey through life. Create a new nierika for each ceremony. WNC The hole in the middle is considered a mirror (often a small glass mirror is used). This is the magical eye through which man and God can see each other. The mirror makes the Gods pay attention to the petition, which places a real obligation on the Gods to grant whatever is portrayed on the nierika; but an offering must be made as well. WHC (See, torus, apacheta (def. 4).)
A yarn nierika of Huichol origin. The Huichol recognize the
four cardinal directions and the center in these depictions,
very much like a mandala or other medicine wheel.
Nighttime Sun: (1) The sun after it has set. (2) A deity worshipped by the Guari lineage ayllu of Cajatambo that was believed to enter a hidden, watery passage into the underworld. (See, Huarochirí Manuscript, Daytime Sun.)
nina: (n) (1) Fire, match RS (2) Fire spirit. AYV
nina kuru: (n) Firefly. RS (See, ayañawi for picture.)
nina lawray: (n) Fire, flame. RS
Ninán Cuyúnchic: The chosen heir of Huayna Capac who died along with the Inca ruler, leaving half-brothers Atahualpa and Waskar to divide the country in civil war at the time Pizarro landed. MAN Cuando murió su padre, Tupac Yupanqui, le correspondía el trono a Ninán Cuyúnchic el heredero legitimo según la ley del imperio, pero fue desahuciado, como enfermizo e inútil entonces existió la rivalidad por el imperio entre Huascar y Atahualpa, finalmente fue elegido Atahualpa como Inca o Emperador del Imperio Inca. Su padre le dejo como herencia desde Huamachuci, en el actual Perú hasta el río Angasmayo, en Colombia, el resto del Tahuantinsuyo fue para su hermano Huascar. When his father died, the throne corresponded to Ninán Cuyúnchic the legitimate heir according to the law of the empire, but he was evicted as sickly and useless. Then the rivalry for the empire existed between Wascar and Atahualpa; finally Atahualpa was elected as the Inca or Emperor of the Inca Empire. His father left his inheritance from Huamachuci, in the current Peru, to the river Angasmayo in Colombia, the remainder of the Tawantinsuyu was for his brother Wascar. [Trans. by Litza Arce.] WMGE (See, Appendix H.)
nina runa: (n) Fire people who live inside volcanos. MAN A spirit being who rides horses of fire. She is called upon by shamans as a powerful defense. AYV (See, hark’ana.)
nitimushcanpoma (Amaz): (n) Literally, crushing tigers. Jaguars with human heads and hair made of snakes. (See, image at dismemberment) AYV
A nitimushcanpoma, the crushing tiger that dismembers the vegetalista, in this detail
from a painting by Pablo Amaringo. AYV
non-ordinary reality: See, nagual.
novicio (Span.): (n) A shaman in training, an apprentice. JLH
nucnu huasca: See, ayahuasca.
nuka sunquipy causanqui: (expression) You will always have a place in my heart.
nuna: (n) (1) The principle that everything is spirit. One of the major organizing principles. (See, saiwa,
munay,
chekak,
yuya,
ch'ulla,
kallari,
kawsay.) (2) The spirit; the essential aspect of the individual. JLH
Ñacachus: (n) Offshoot of the Dominicans; members hold Black Mass and steal the energy of others. JLH
ñakay: (v) To suffer. QP
ñak'arichiy: (v) To cause pain, to make suffer. PSL
ñak'ariy, ñakariy: (v) To suffer, to hurt. PSL QP
ñan: (n) Road, path. QP
ñaña: (n) Girlfriend of a female, woman’s sister. QP
ñanta riqsichiq: (n) A guide. QP
ñañaptaatha (AYM): (tr.v) To cure from illness. ASD
ñañaptatha (AYM): (intr.v) To emerge from illness. ASD
ñaupa, ñawpan: See, ñawpa.
ñawi, ñawin: (n) (1) Eye. (2) The five ñawi are roughly equivalent to the chakras of the Hindu system and each is associated with one of the chunpis. Kulli ñawi is the two physical eyes and the third eye. Sonqo ñawi is at the heart, kunka ñawi at the throat, cosco ñawi at the navel, and siki ñawi at the base of the spine. KOAK (3) The face. Also, ñavi (in Ecuador). (See, chaupi.)
ñawi mayllay: (n) Literally, washing the face. The sponsors at a wedding in Ecuador take a little water in a basin, sprinkle flower petals in it and, with the groom, wash the face, arms and legs of the bride, all the while advising her to be a good wife. The water is then changed, re-flowered, and the bride joins in doing the same to the groom, all exhorting him to be a good husband. TAV
ñawin aqha: (n) Eye of the chicha, which is the first cup of chicha from a vessel which is offered to deities. ROR
ñawinchay: (v) To read. QP
ñawpa, ñaupa, ñawpan : (adj) Ancient. QP Old; former. RS
ñawpa ayllu: (n) Ancestors. QP
ñawpa llaqta: (n) Ruins. QP
ñawpa machu: (n) Literally, ancient old. Ancient times of darkness on the earth. KVI
ñawpa pacha: (n) The transparent beings who lived in the ñawpa machu. KVI
ñawpaq: (adv) Ahead, past. (adj) Ancient. QP
ñawpaq kaq: (adj) First. QP
ñawpaqta: (adv) Before in time. QP
ñawsa: (adj) Blind. QP
ñucchu: (n) (Salvia splendens) A flower that is a central part of the Taytacha Temblores celebration, used to weave a crown for the Lord of the Earthquakes. Before the Conquest, it was used as an offering to the ancient gods Con and Wiracocha. SIP (n) A little red flower; tea made from this flower which is used to cleanse imprints. JLH
ñust'a: (n) (1) country woman; girl, (2) Inca princess, (3) Female nature spirit, princess of the mountain; goddess; feminine counterpart of the apu. (4) Female of fifth level. RS JLH KOAK