Itanipuca, the 'Great Father', is the supreme sky god of the traditional Lenca religion of highland Honduras and eastern El Salvador. The ethnographic and chronicle traditions associate him with the heavens and the movement of the stars, and pair him with Ilanguipuca, the 'Great Mother' of the earth, as the two principal beings of an originally polytheistic, hierarchically ordered pantheon. The colonial legend of the culture-heroine of Cerquín holds that organized worship of the Great Father and Great Mother was instituted in her memory. The Lenca language is a near-extinct isolate, so the deity is known chiefly through Spanish-language ethnography and the recovered name rather than through extensive native-language liturgy.