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Nahualá
Nahualá ((:nawaˈla)) is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The town is sometimes known as Santa Catarina Nahualá, in honor of the town’s patron saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, but the official name is just "Nahualá".
Nahualá or Nawala' is also the K'iche' (Quiché) language name for the Nahualate River, which is called ''Niwala''' the local Nahualá dialect. The river has its source in the north of the township of Nahualá, and flows through the center of the town's ''cabecera'' ("head-town").
Nahuala is the location of radio station Nawal Estereo, the successor to the La Voz de Nahuala, which was originally founded with the assistance of Roman Catholic clerics in the 1960s. Nowadays, the station broadcasts primarily in the K'iche' language, with some broadcasts also done in Kaqchikel and Spanish.
==Meaning of the name==
Local residents translate the name Nahualá roughly as "enchanted waters," "water of the spirits," and "water of the shamans," and they often object to the common Spanish translation of the name as ''agua de los brujos'' ("water of the shamans"). Scholars have typically argued that the name Nahualá derives from a compound of the Nahuatl term ''nagual'' or ''nahual'' (pronounced NA-wal), meaning "magician"(and related to terms for clear or powerful speech) and the K’iche’ root ''ja''', meaning "water". However, the loanword ''nawal,'' which entered the Mayan languages about a thousand years ago, came to denote "spirit()" or "divine co-essence()", as well as "shaman()" in K'iche'. Some Maya linguists have argued apocryphally that the "true" name should be Nawalja' or Nawal-ja', disregarding that the word ja’ is regularly apocopated at the ends of words — especially toponyms — not only in K'iche', but also in related Mayan languages. Those who promote the neologisms Nawalja' and Nawal-ja' also ignore that the pronunciation of the neologisms is inconsistent with the pronunciation in sixteenth-century K'iche' — and Kaqchikel-Mayan recorded in several early colonial manuscripts written in Latin orthography by members of the native nobility.
For example, the sixteenth-century Título de Totonicapán mentions a Late Post-classic Period site called "navala", (not "navalha"). Although scholars have argued that the site of the título corresponds to the modern community of Nahualá, it may actually correspond to a pre-colonial Nahua-, K’iche’- and Tz'utujil-speaking community located some 20 kilometers to the south: San Juan Nahualá or San Juan Nagualapan (later annexed as a ward of the departmental capital of San Antonio Suchitepéquez). The earliest mention of Nahualá occurs in one of the sixteenth-century Kaqchikel-language Xpantzay Títulos, which mentions a site called, "chohohche niguala" which almost certainly corresponds to a modern canton of the cabecera of Nahualá, Chojojche' (''Cho Joj Chee''' = "Before () Crow Tree"). Several other sixteenth or early seventeenth-century titles in Spanish and K'iche' mention Nahualá either directly (as "Navala") or obliquely, in terms of the landmarks of the community, including Siija (a Late Post-Classic fortress settlement located atop a hill of the same name, 12 kilometers west of Nahualá), Pa Raxk'im ("in the green bunchgrass/thatch", the name of the mountain chain that envelops most of the township's highland territory, as well as a Nahualeño village of the same name), Chi Q'al()b'al ("at the throne" a site located near Siija, mentioned in the Xajil chronicle popularly known as the Anales de los Cakchiqueles), Chwi' Raxon or Pa Raxon ("above the cotinga/verdure/green feathers/wealth," the mountain in the center of the township's head town), Poop Ab'aj ("Petate-Stone," a site located northeast of the town, along the precolonial road that became part of El Camino Real during the Spanish period), Xajil Juyub', Pa Tz'itee', Chwi' Patan, and others.
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