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pillahuano.

Headword: 
pillahuano.
Principal English Translation: 

a festival, involving drinking and eating, to celebrate the arrival of a baby
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 207.

Orthographic Variants: 
pilauana, pillauana, pilahuana
Attestations from sources in English: 

A part of the ceremony involved the careful placement of the baby in the crib/cradle, and this was called tlacoçolaquilo. (central Mexico, sixteenth century). See our record for tlacozolaquilo.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 207.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence