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tlalticpaque.

Headword: 
tlalticpaque.
Principal English Translation: 

possessor or master of the earth, God

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 237.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālticpaqueh
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltikpɑkeh
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLTICPAQUEH lord of the earth (deity) / señor de la tierra (C) [(4)Cf.7r,55r, (1)Rp.45]. See TLĀLTICPAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 277.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

usually paired with ilhuicahuah. tlālticpac, -eh. 237

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)