James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 237.
a physician, surgeon, healer; a midwife; a curandera/curandero; someone with a special skill or knowledge; or, a trickster (see Karttunen); the "trickster" interpretation may reflect an ecclesiastical bias (SW)