the house of the dead (see Karttunen); or, hell, purgatory
Orthographic Variants:
mictlāncalli
IPAspelling:
miktɬɑːnkɑlli
Frances Karttunen:
MICTLĀNCAL-LI the house of the dead / infierno, purgatorio (T) [(1)Tp. 141]. See MICTLĀN-TLI, CAL-LI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 147.