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nahualtezcatl.

Headword: 
nahualtezcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

eyes (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

tonahualtezcauh = our nahualli-mirror, enchanted mirror (i.e., the eyes); this language is used when curing eyes with picietl (tobacco) and blood from chicken quills recently plucked
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions (1984), Sixth Treatise, p. 171.