Takaji My Relatives
Presidents, prime ministers and other leaders of the 20 key financial powers of the world were hosted by President Barak Obama at the so-called
G20 global economic summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania yesterday Friday September 25th. several sector's of the Pittsburgh community took the opportunity of international media focus to present the positive aspects of this…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on September 26, 2009 at 7:24am —
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Takaji My Relatives
It was my pleasure to travel this past weekend all the way accross the state to the region of eastern Pennsylvania from my hometown of Pittsburg in western Pennsylvania. While in Philadelphia I stayed at the home of a generous Taino brother with whom I shared a wonderful two days. On Saturday I had planned to visit Lancaster to spend the day with Taino friends at the PuertoRican Day Parade but obligations in Philadelphia…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on September 20, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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Takaji My Relatives It is an honor to introduce my friend Antonio Aj Ik (Born of the Wind).
Antonio is a young k'iche Maya man who has inherited from his father, a traditional Guatemalan ajk'ij, the mission of bringing the message of the Maya Calendar 2012 Prophecy to people all over the world and I have commited myself to helping him with this great effort
I encourage all my friends to explore our…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on September 19, 2009 at 7:26am —
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September 2009 Podcast by
Wolf Mountain Radio regularly scheduled program: "
Honoring Mother Earth/ Indigenous Voices" featuring interviews with Beike Bo Miguel Sobaoko Koromo Sague and his son, mayohuakan drum artist and all-around professional percussionist Miguel BanoManigua Sague III of CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE.
These interviews were…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on September 14, 2009 at 4:38pm —
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Takaji My Relatives
On Saturday September 5 the Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle joined with the United Confederation of Taino People in the city of Youngstown Ohio to celebrate the Sacred Full Moon Ceremony.
We could not have asked for a more beautiful afternoon for the celebration of this powerful ritual. The full moon had already been gracing us for several nights and we were all charged and spiritually ready for the…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on September 14, 2009 at 1:27pm —
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Takaji My Relatives
The weekend of August 15 and 16 proved to be yet another powerful expression of Taino tradition and cultural strength at the fifth installment of a very important annual celebration high in the central mountains of Boriken.
Again this year the crafts organization known as CATTA under the guidance of our sacred sister Maragarita Noguera, with the co-operation of another powerful and sacred sister, Joanna Soto Aviles,…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on August 25, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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quester's lonely hilltop campsite
Takaji My Relatives
I presently find myself on the secluded 20-acre hilltop site of Pittsburgh's Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center for four days and nights. I am performing my responsibilities as guide throughout the course of a young woman's Vision Quest experience.
I have moved many of my books that I normally work with and my Mayan Calendar paraphanelia which is always…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on July 19, 2009 at 12:38pm —
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Tau My Relatives
This past Saturday, June 27 I had the honor of leading the first Taino kansi sweat ceremony in the state of Georgia. I was invited to build the traditional thatched roofed guanara lodge in the manner of the Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle at the home of Boriken Taino couple Johnny and Lupe Negron near Canton, Georgia.
Lupe is a remarkable healer in her own right. Practicing professionally in the Canton area, I…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on June 29, 2009 at 2:01pm —
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Tau My Relatives
In spite of the forceful weather that prevented us from celebrating our Summer Solstice Ceremony outside at the public park in Youngstown, Ohio this past Saturday the Sague family and the Simmons family did get together and we did celebrate the sacred seasonal event at my house in the Pittsburgh suburban community of Verona. Because the ritual was a much more intimate and private one as compared to the more elaborate ceremony celebrated during a public Summer Solstice…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on June 24, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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Tau My Relatives Our Canadian Cree sister Janie, known to many of us by her screen name "BlueSkyWoman", got married to her fiance Ramon this past Friday here in Pittsburgh and I had the pleasure of performing the marriage ceremony in the tradition of the Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle. Janie asked me to perform the ceremony for her marriage to Ramon way back in March amd I was honored and happy to accept.
We picked a particularly…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on June 18, 2009 at 12:30am —
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Tau My Relatives
We often refer to something called "Taino Resurgence", a movement that awakened in the hearts of many of our relatives the fervent desire to return to the roots of their Indigenous heritage. The Resurgence has taken many paths and like many such social movements it suffers from growing pains, the greatest of which is disunity. That is not abnormal, and in a sense, there are many in the movement who are making great headway in…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on March 2, 2009 at 9:04am —
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photo of jaguar in French Guyanan jungle credited to Dr Zoltan Takacs, original drawing of Caribbean Indigen wearing a jaguar tooth necklace and montage "Taino Jaguar Spirit" by Miguel Sague
Tau My Relatives
Not long ago the BBC television programing unit called NATURE featured a series entitled "SPIRITS OF THE JAGUAR". This beautifully photographed sequence of programs was narrated by David Attenborough and focused attention on…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on February 23, 2009 at 1:00am —
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As many of you already are aware, we in the Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle celebrate the Spring Equinox with a ceremony that includes the act of separating two traditinal Taino sculpted images which have been kept tied together throughout the winter season.
One of those two images is the sculptural item popularly known by scholars as a "stone collar". We in th Caney Circle call them Coa Hoops. Coa Hoops were…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on February 22, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Tau My Relatives
We are arriving at a very important nexus date of the on-going Maya Calendar Venus Cycle. The Venus Cycle is a significant series of astronomical events which manifest themselves in asociation with the repetitive movements of the planet Venus, one of the brightest objects of the night sky. The series in question includes a significant, regularly predictable number of days that the planet appears as a morningstar…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on February 16, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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Tau MY Relatives
This weekend the South American continent will witness more of the same phenomenon that is sweeping this hemisphere since the early 1990's. This new installment on what appears to be a region-wide movement comes fast on the heels of the miracle that took place this past November in the U.S., the miracle that saw one of the last true Apartheid nations of the world actually elect a black man to the highest office of government. In…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on January 22, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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Tau My Relatives
The Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle celebrated its annual Winter Solstice Ceremony in two separate locations this month. On Saturday Dec 20 we participated in the traditional Solstice rituals at the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On the following Saturday, December 27 we celebrated the same Return To The Divine Womb…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on December 28, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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Hachas tainas
The Ceremonial Taino petaloid hatchet and its relation to the Maya hatchet god Kawil
Miguel A Sague Machiran (published in Spanish and English)
EL HACHA CEREMONIAL TAINA TIPO…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on December 22, 2008 at 1:00am —
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Tau My Relatives
Cuba has the honor of maintaining a curious spiritual tradition which
nowadays is mostly recognized only within the narrow confines of Afro-
Latin circles. Those of you who are acquainted with the tradition of
Yoruba REGLA DE OCHA (sometimes popularly known as "Santeria") know
of one of the most important icons of this tradition, a female spirit
called "Ochun". This spirit (or orisha) is…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on December 16, 2008 at 4:08am —
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Tau My Relatives
Our Taino ancestors were attentive sky watchers and made accurate observations of the movements of heavenly bodies. These movements almost always express themselves in the form of cycles and the assessment of these cycles was as important to the Caribbean islanders as it was to their contemporaries living in the high Maya…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on December 12, 2008 at 6:00am —
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Tau My Relative You are cordially invited to celebrate Winter Solstice by
participating in the traditional Taino Winter Solstice Ceremony of
the Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle in Miami FLA
Our ceremony will include the sacred tying ritual in which a three-
point cemi sculpture of Yoka Hu will be tied to the oval-shaped stone
hoop that represents the divine uterus of Ata Bey our Cosmic
Matriarch. This ritual…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on December 3, 2008 at 3:00am —
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