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Figure inspired by Corocote- representing sexual virility and carnal love, Father of many children and husband of many woman, this Taino spirit lives in the high caney of Cacique Guamorote and comes down each night to sleep in the hammocks with all his women. Legend speaks of many attacks by his enemies who required Corocote to seek refuge in a nearby lakes. Since the death of his sponsor (Guamorote), Corocote has been passed around the villages of all the other caciques who revere him and practice his love making lifestyle.
(Mother Earth)
Spirit of fire and holder of the secrets of cassava and the cohoba ritual, this Taino God symbolizes the creator of humanity. Legends speak of the ancient attempt by the early world four twin brothers to steal the secrets of fire, cassava and cohoba thwarted by Bayamanaco who spit on the back of the brothers. This spit grew and spawned into Caguama- the earth turtle of life who was extracted from the back of Demian Cararacol. This turtle "Caguama" continued to cohabit ate with the four twin brothers who became the origins of humanity who populated the newly created planet on the back of Earth Turtle- Caguama.
This spirit is recognized as neither masculine nor feminity and is drawn with a plate on his head to make offerings. Bayamamaco is known as the ancientgrandfather of humanity who has no anticendent.
This amulet obviously deplicting the Andean Condor shows the mythological connection between indigenous peoples of the Americas (from South to North!)...
Greenstone zoomorphic amulet in form of Condor of the Andes. Sorce, Vieques, Puerto Rico. Huecoid culture (300 B.C.). Excavated by Yvonne Narganes and Luis Chanlatte Baik
Courtesy of Luis Chanlatte Baik, Yvonne Narganes and Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan.
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