A fines del mes de Abril 2018 los behikes del CIRCULO CANEY se dedicaron a celebrar la ceremonia de Luna Llena en varios locales del continente.

Late in the month of April 2018 the behikes of the CANEY CIRCLE dedicated themselves to the task of celebrating the Full Moon ceremony in various sites across the…

The arm and foot movements performed by the Kalinago dancers on the island of Dominica are almost identical to those performed by dancers of the Cordon Dance Spiritist sect in the remote rural region of Monte Oscuro in Cuba. The Cordon Dance has been demonstrated by researchers to be a modern survival of ancient Taino Indigenous dance culture. These same arm and foot movements are performed by participants in the traditional dances of the various Arawakan tribes people on Guyana in South…

Takahi Our Relatives

Our sacred song Taino Ti Oakia Ata:Song to Atabey has become a very popular hit in the field of children' music in Germany and in other areas of Europe. As a result of this we of the Caney Circle and I personally have developed unexpected friendships there. Some of these are musicians who posted videos on Youtube that…

My Relatives, many of you recognize this song as the great chant to Atabey our sacred mother of the earth and the waters which we in the Taino Resurgence movement have been singing since 1981 when I composed it under inspiration of our Taino ancestors. This particular video shows me leading the singing of the song as part of a historic 1992 full…

Habiendo celebrado la ceremonia de Equinoccio anteriormente en el mes de Marzo, los behikes y behikes bajo entrenamiento del CIRCULO CANEY nos dedicamos a la ceremonia de LUNA LLENA a fines del mismo mes.

Having previously celebrated the Equinox ceremony early in the month of March, we the behikes and behike trainees of the CANEY…

Este a~o el Equinoccio De Primavera del Circulo Caney fue celebrado por nuestros behikes y behikes bajo entrenamiento en mas localidades del continente que nunca antes.

This year the Caney Circle Spring Equinox was celebrated by our behikes and behike trainees in more localities across the continent than ever…

The ancient Tainos developed a highly advanced weaving technique which evidently utilized only the use of one or two knitting needles to create extraordinary fabrics that impressed even the early European chroniclers who had the opportunity to inspect their fabrics. Please click on this…

The Taino male deity YokaHu, in our opinion, far from being a typical western-type paternal, immortal "almighty god" in the style of the Hebrew Jehovah, is, in fact, a much more human-like entity, con-substantial with humanity itself and subject to a very human-like  life-cycle like ours which begins with birth and ends in death, and then starts all over…

Nosotros los behikes y behikes-bajo-entrenaniento del Circulo Caney celebramos la ceremonia sagrada de Luna Llena a fines del mes de Febrero y principios del mes de Marzo 2018.

We the behikes and behike-trainees of the Caney Circle celebrated the sacred ceremony of Full Moon in late February-early March…

The ancient ancestral region of the Arawakan people who eventually would migrate into the Caribbean to become the Taino nation is called the Orinoco. It is a spectacularly beautiful river region in the rain forest of South America miles north of the Amazon. It is the home of jaguars, crocodiles, butterflies, monkeys and parrots. It is the homeland of ancient Indigenous tribes and is now the home of mixed-race people in whose veins runs the blood of Indigenous Natives, European colonists and…

This link will access a text file containing the report by Maria Proviones-Bishop about the concept of Death and dead ancestors in the culture of ancient Taino people.

BAT AND THE GUAVA

This map demonstrates the geographic regions covered by the sacred service of the behikes and behikes-in-training of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE. We hope all those who might happen to live near any of our spiritual guides reach out to the nearest one and make a connection so that you can celebrate the ancient traditions of our ancestors as we have brought them back to the people. All Tainos and people who respect Taino heritage are welcome.…

Nosotros los behikes y behikes-bajo-entrenamiento del Circulo Caney celebramos la ceremonia de LUNA LLENA atravez del continente Americano este pasado mes de Enero, rindiendole tributo a nuestra madre fertil Atabey y honrando su ciclo de fecundidad lunar. Estas ceremonias coincidieron con la manifestacion de la superluna, luna sangre y luna azul de Enero…

Collaboration between INdigenous medicine men and women, and science

1.) Mali, Africa

Researchers cooperate with ‘medicine men’

Takahi My Relatives I wish here to share a rare glimpse at the inner workings of the Caney Circle over 20 yeas ago. This is a copy of several attachments that accompanied the minutes of the board meeting of the Caney Circle that occurred on October 28 1991. In that meeting I as the chief behike of the Caney announced to our governing body that I had established contact with a newly formed organization of Tainos in New York City called  the TAINO NATIVE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (Asociacion…

DEMINAN AND TURTLE WOMAN

Atravez del continent de America los behikes y behikes bajo entrenamiento del Circulo Caney celebramos el Solsticio de Invierno este pasado mes de Diciembre.

Throughout the whole American continent we the behikes and behikes-in-training of the Caney Circle celebrated the Winter Solstice ceremony this past month of…