animalCoyoteBeings · NatureCoyote as an animal people have named and used. Mischief, Cleverness, Deception — one living kind, not a single symbol.Nahua traditionCoyote appears in Nahua tradition.Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records coyotl in Book 11 four-footed animals — named coyote natural-history speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577appears in · sourced · culturally specificsourcesFlorentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaboratorsBernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).