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techihuani.

Headword: 
techihuani.
Principal English Translation: 

progenitor; creator or maker of people

Orthographic Variants: 
techiuani
IPAspelling: 
teːtʃiːwɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

techiuani. hazedor, criador, o engendrador.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCHĪHUANI creator, engenderer, steward / hacedor, criador, engendrador (M) [(2)Bf.4r,6r]. See CHĪHU(A), TĒ-CHĪUHQUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 216.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ca dios techivani teyocoyani = God is the Progenitor and Creator of people
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 98–99.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)