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Taino Indians Still Thrive in Cuba

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« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2008, 03:05:10 pm »










What shall we do



The zemi, as well as dead caciques, have certain powers over the natural world and
 must be dealt with.

Thus these various services are ways of acknowledging their power (worship and
thanksgiving) and at the same time seeking their aid. Because of these powers
there are many Arawak/Taino stories which account for the origins of some ex-
perienced phenomena in myth and or magic.

Several myths had to do with caves. The sun and moon, for example, came out
of caves. Another story tells that the people lived in caves and only came out at
night. One guard was supposed to watch carefully over people to be sure that
they were well divided in the land. However, one day he was late in returning and
the sun caught him and turned him into a stone pillar.
(Shades of Lot's wife!)

Remeber the good and bad god I have showed you, well its call a Zemi.
Its a god in one piece, one site represent the good the other half the bad.



More stories about the Zemi and the life still of the Taino can be read at


http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/precolumbian/tainover.htm
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