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 en pañales. Muchos taínos actuales todavía llaman a estas imágenes "guaili" usando la palabra taína para "niño". Sin embargo, el antropólogo…

The Maya experience is one of the select & preparatory primers for the psyche (for Ayahuasca) delivered via a "multi-sensory promise in a box". 

Sensik is actually a sensory reality pod to sit in & totally immerse in a mixed and virtual experience, augmenting headset visuals w/a set of exterior wind, light, scent, heat, haptics sense simulators - or, as founder Fred Galstaun puts it,…

This second indigenous celebration prayer song from Angel is so nice to see and hear. Oracledruid, what is the meaning to the cover? Is there anything you can reveal? 

[I ask for Permission and the information on the cover from YouTube AMRFanClub.] This cover looks simple, but it carries a dark message. It is the Tree of Life and is dying. Spots in the full album indicate a new virus will rise in the population. The color spots are both disease and blood splatters indications of violence coming ahead. There is a ball in the bird's nest that has the Latin word "Daemon Mendacili" which means "Deamon of…

It's a storytelling song. "Possession to Steal", I don't get the meaning of the cover. Is it to steal a baby bird or steal a bird's eggs? I don't get it. What is the meaning?

Los dias 11 y 12 de Agosto 

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El dia 15 de Julio 2023 la organizacion boricua de Buffalo,New York llamada CENTRO PURTORRIQUE~O EL BATEY celebro su segundo encuentro taino anual en el parque PROSPECT PARK de esa ciudad. La organizadora principal de EL BATEY Beatriz Flores,  le extendio una invitacion muy cordial a nuestro Circulo Caney para participar en esta…

En este blog quiero compartir con ustedes la investigación que he llevado a cabo sobre la antigua tradición de la danza que parece ser un elemento fundamental de la cultura arahuaca. Es una tradición que se hace evidente en un gran número de grupos arahuacos que habitan áreas de América del Sur continental, como Guyana y Surinam, así como en la reserva Kalinago en la isla caribeña de Dominica y entre los residentes mestizos de regiones rurales remotas…

It was an honor for me to be given the opportunity to lead a Summer Solstice Ceremony in the tradition of the Caney indigenous Spiritual Circle at the Taino Woods nature sanctuary in upstate New York on the weekend of June 24 and 25 2023.…

I am Priscilla Quiñones Ferreira, and I go by Silla (Sí-la). Like your average Puertorrican, I am mixed, but in that mix there’s taíno culture and heritage I’ve inherited. I grew up in a split home as well, so I grew up with two fathers. Both gave me different perspectives and experiences of our Taíno heritage. This post is specific to my blood relation to the Quiñones family (the father I share DNA with and was with part-time in my childhood). I am still…

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Mega defense. The sacred Ceiba tree, Worshipped in Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean. Discourages elephants! I have one in my yard and no, you don't want to butt your head into this tree even if you are an elephant. btw.

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Takahi my relatives, as we approach the sacred point in the tropical year cycle when the rains ultimately intensify in the Caribbean. I would like to offer three presentations that explore various aspects of this weather phenomenon and its spiritual significance in Taino culture. 

 First I want to present the concepts surrounding Taino beliefs about rainy weather and dry weather. This duality plays a…