Save Gender Masculine Usage Aztec and Toltec Mythology, Nahuatl Pronounced Pron. ee-pahl-neh-mo-WAH-nee(Nahuatl) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Means "he through whom we live" or "giver of life" in Nahuatl. This was one of several names for a supreme Aztec deity. It later came to be used as a term for the Christian god.