Original painting in gouache, ink, and watercolor on paper. This artwork draws from ancient Mexica and “Aztec” traditions, reimagined through a contemporary Chicano and Indigenous lens. It portrays a *nahual*—a shape-shifting magician rooted in Mesoamerican cosmology—transforming into his jaguar self. Inspired by the Maya murals of Cacaxtla, and guided by Native spirituality, this piece honors the ancestral practice of intercession with the Teteo, the powerful forces of rain, maize, and life. As