According to Brinton, Nahual comes from the Nahuatl word Nahualli plural nanahualtin and means someone who will know sorcery. One of the abilities is to be able to transform into an animal. Another term is a spirit animal that protects the person, depending on the day the person is born. These beliefs transformed into a cult which resulted in the adoration of the animal. The Spanish version will be the adorations of the saints in which you are assigned a saint depending on the day you are born. The saint will protect you and guide you. The Mexicas not only practiced this belief of Nagualism, believing that different animals had different powers, and the Coyotl was an animal with magical powers. The animal coyote or Coyotl in Nahuatl was an animal that the Mexican people believed had superpowers over its prey, seducing them.

In the cosmo-vision of the Mexicas, the divine and nature were one in their world. Part of this world was the god Huehuecoyotl (Wēwekoyōtl), a god of the arts and music. In The Global Guide to Animal Protection, edited by Andrew Linzey, Coyotl is translated as a trickster and considered by different first nations groups as a magical animal. It was not until the Spanish saw the coyote as a threat that this thought continues in North America today. The coyote has adapted and become resilient because of its ability to survive under its cruel persecution. In Mexico City, there is the neighbourhood of Coyoacán, which means “the place of the possessors of coyotes”. The name gives reference to the tribute to this beautiful animal adored by the Mexicas. The Mexicas also used the triangle to represent the rays of light coming from the sun. In this case, the connotation of the triangle is my queer identity. The triangle is an appropriation and reclamation of the symbol used by the Nazis to mark homosexuals during the Holocaust. The wearing of the triangle brings awareness about homophobia and the queer tragedies of the past and present.