Such a great honor to have collaborated with my Kasike Roberto Mukaro Borrero, yesterday April 6 in the celebration of an areito in Orlando Florida. The event was a joint…
Gaunara n his narration RELACION ACERCA DE LAS ANTIGUEDADES DE LOS INDIOS, the Spanish monk Ramon Pane related that the ancient Tainos informed him about an episode in their creation narrative in which a healer woman called Guabonito provides a healing procedure for an ailing chief called…
Folklorically said to improve vision on many dimensional levels, Amaranth plant is a resistant, fast-growing pseudocereal used as the main crop by the Aztecs in Mexico and cultivated by other Caribbean & Mesoamerican civilizations.…
Beliefs, where spirits inhabit the environment and offerings are given in thanks or supplication to nature, have been present and existed in the Carribean region long before conquest & colonization. Is there a way to abstractly wrap our hands around communicating such experiences, and making…
Yuisa From Boríke(Puerto Rico) Cacique Chief of the Tainos.The river named after this lady is incorrectly named "Loíza River". It was near her "Rancherio" = a small Indian settlement or "Yukayeke" = "Village" called "Haymanio". Both names were Spaniarized and changed to "Loíza" adding the [í] in…
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De nuevo tuve el honor de oficiar la ceremonia del Solsticio de Diciembre en la ciudad de Miami, Florida como en años pasados.I again had the honor of conducting the…
I'm excited about a prayer song that celebrates all Taíno women. Sally from "AMR Fan Club" sent me a sample cover album of the single from AMR of "Full Moon Ceremony". I guess is coming out on the actual full moon day on Dec 26. I'm waiting to see if she will put up the translated video too. I like…
Desde hace años, algunas personas han creído que las imágenes de figuras humanas envueltas como bultos como las que se muestran en estas fotos representan a niños envueltos…