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The bowl atop the figure's head was used to hold cohoba during rituals. [1] Taino Zemi mask from Walters Art Museum. A zemi or cemi (Taíno: semi [sÉ›mi]) [2] was a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing the spirit, among the Taíno people of the Caribbean. [3] Cemi’no or Zemi’no is a plural word for the spirits.
Cohoba is a Taíno transliteration for a ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree (Anadenanthera spp.) were inhaled, the Y-shaped nasal snuff tube used to inhale the substance, and the psychoactive drug that was inhaled.
The three figures were found by a surveyor in a cave near the settlement of Vere in the Carpenters Mountains in June 1792. They were exhibited for the first time at the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1799 by Isaac Alves Rebello. [3] The figures' subsequent provenance after this remains obscure before their acquisition by the British Museum.
Yúcahu [1] —also written as Yucáhuguama Bagua Maórocoti, Yukajú, Yocajú, Yokahu or Yukiyú— was the masculine spirit of fertility in Taíno mythology. [2] He was the supreme deity or zemi of the Pre-Columbian Taíno people along with his mother Atabey who was his feminine counterpart. [3]
Guabancex is a zemi of storms aided by Coatriquie, and Guataubá, who control wind and rainfall. [3] She was entrusted to the ruler of a mystical land, Aumatex. This granted her the title of " Cacique of the Wind", but it also imposed the responsibility of repeatedly appeasing the goddess throughout her long reign.
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He fled to Hispaniola to what now is Dominican Republic after the 1511-16 Taino rebellion. [5] Acanorex: Cacique on Ayiti (currently Hispaniola) [6] Agüeybaná (The Great Sun) Cacique whose name means "The Great Sun" was "Supreme Cacique" in Puerto Rico who welcomed Juan Ponce de León and the conquistadors. His yucayeque was on the Guayanilla ...
In time, the number of recorded Taíno was greatly diminished through forced labor, disease and warfare, but also through changes to how Indio groups were recorded in the Spanish Caribbean. For example, the 1787 census in Puerto Rico lists 2,300 "pure" Indios in the population, but on the next census, in 1802, not a single Indio is listed.