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ilhuicahua.

Headword: 
ilhuicahua.
Principal English Translation: 

lord of heaven (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ilwikɑwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

ILHUICAHUAH lord of heaven / señor del cielo (C) , Diós (C) [(5)Cf.7r,55r,I 12r,(1)Rp.45]. See ILHUICA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 104.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ilhuicahuah. usually paired with tlālticpaqueh, ilhuicatl, -huah. possessor or master of heaven, God. 220
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), 220.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ilhuicahua Tlalticpaque = "Master of Heaven and Earth," was a deity title found in both ecclesiastical and non-church texts alike.
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 22.

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena