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yohuayan.

Headword: 
yohuayan.
Principal English Translation: 

the time of darkness

Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 251.

IPAspelling: 
jowɑjɑːn
Attestations from sources in English: 

in oc yohuayan = when it was still in the time of darkness [i.e. in pre-Christian times]
Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 251.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency