You are a blessing. I wanted this information so so badly and finally I can learn more about my people. It's so hard to find our ancestral I formation online in such an easy to understand way and in English. Sadly I don't speak Spanish lol.
New subscriber. Safe to say us Taino are really yearning to learn our roots being as though school doesn’t teach it; parents and grandparents may no longer b here on earth any longer, or we just don’t trust ancestry. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
i been trying to learn about our Caribbean cousins the Taino, the younger Arawak generation are trying to rebuild our kingdoms of the spirit. Thank you for taking your time to study, this is helping our culture friend
Much of my dna is dominican and puert rican. Born into Catholicism, but in a family slowly straying from it over time. The other side of my family is Venezuelan. Both sides are very close to their origin, my dad is an immigrant and my mom’s grandfather grew up farming in Santo Domingo, where they had for many generations. Ive been wanting to learn more about Taino culture, and watching this i see a startling amount of similarities to my own personal spiritual beliefs and Taino spiritism. Manifestations, not deities, and being grateful for all that’s around you. Im not one to be a person with strong belief of fate or belief traveling beyond spoken word, but i do find it to be something.
this was a very nice video. Educational too. I've always been curious about my Taino roots but just now am brave enough to learn their culture. Thank you for making this.
Thank you for sharing this! I’ve been trying to find things online and it’s hard as hell. Im grateful to have found your Tiktok and that you do youtube! Gracias!!
Hello AND THANK YOU so Much for This well researched info! I wanted to know more about MY own ancestral Spirits, Stories and Myths. I'd love more information about sacred ceremonies of the Tiano? Blessed be )O(
I’m happy to come across this video! I have been hungry for information on my ancestry religion practice and wanted to dig more in-depth about our roots!
I have always wondered about this. I've always felt very connected to it, my whole family lived in Puerto Rico until the 1920s and it became something we couldn't talk about because it was looked at all devil worship witch craft! So my family became christain
Omg I have been trying to get more in depth with spirtuality and trying to learn more about taino culture but it's hard to find info about it :( I'm so happy i stumbled upon your page and can't wait to see more content from you! Saludos!
Can you make a video about prayers to them or do we come up with them ourself and where should I start out I am just getting into my Taino ruts and I thank you soo much for the videos you make they are extremely helpful because i have been trying to find information about my people and I can’t really find anything but when I came to TH-cam you where the first page that had popped up so I clicked and now I know a lot more then I have
Hey, nice video. I’m Puerto Rican and I’ve been attempting to put together a system of magical practice, and I’ve been looking for any information I can find. I found some. I had it on my phone and then that phone died 😑 so I appreciate this video.
Thank you for this video. I have been looking into this subject since last year and it has been SO very hard to look into. I am a 2nd generation Puerto Rican and wanted to learn the myths of my people and didn't realize how...removed...it was. I'm in for this ride!
Hello fellow Taina! Please let us know when you publish your book! (in English if possible)I would like a copy of it, I am trying to collect as much literature about Taino and your book is the first one I’ve seen that has different figures/depictions with information next to in your kind of detial, thank you!
My dad thinks he has a bit of Taino in him and my grandfather on my moms side was dark skinned and had a neanderthal type of skull so....Idk if I have any % of taino in me but all my grandparents are from puerto rico and I'm becoming more interested in my dna history now that I'm 30....
I’m 50% Taino from my mothers side, and she thought me about the spiritual side of life around us. I would like to meet you some day for some extra knowledge.
I thought Yaya was the highest spirit and was a male. I read this in the mythology and religion of the tainos. The male spirits deal with the spirit realm and atabay represents the material world
This is like Japanese Shinto. The Taino and Lokono language also sound to me close to Japanese. Apparently they may have come to south America through the Pacific, and probably part of the polynesian people.
Como Puertoriqueño nacido y criado aya la palabra espiritismo no es la correcta, seria espiritualidad ya que el espiritismo es considerado voodoo/brujeria magia negra.
Estas tan enojada con algo de que sabes nada sobre que echaste este comentario en un video que ni siquiera hablaba NADA sobre tarot ni la lotería mexicana. Este video no es sobre eso. Tal ves debes seguir leyendo y investigar sobre barajas de oráculo para encontrar lo que es posible cuando entiendes como hacer divinación. Las brujas pueden usar cualquier tipo de cartas, dominós, y otros útiles para divinación, no es solamente tarot. Y además, busca la historia de tarot y como fue creado… igualmente como la lotería, empezó como un juego. No digo esto con maldad, quiero ayudar a gente para entender magia y formas de brujería.
Hi, I’m Taino. Our spiritual practices our closed. Please take these videos down. We were literally killed for practicing our beliefs. And our elders worked so hard to revive our language and beliefs. It shouldn’t be shared with the world.
I totally understand where you are coming from but I am Puerto Rican and wasn’t taught my culture so finding people like this who share information is amazing for me. I don’t think she wants to invite people into a closed practice but there are many of us PR people who are disconnected with our roots and genuinely want to connect.
Respectfully, I understand the urge to keep spiritual practices hidden to prevent it from being watered down and exterminated. However it’s important to share this information to prevent it from being forgotten and lost. I’m Puerto Rican and I know nothing about my culture, I know nothing about pre-Christian spirituality because my family traded it in for Christianity and American culture. People like us need to learn to reconnect with our roots.
Unfortunatly our spiritual practices have been wiped out by spaniards and colonizers and it's almost impossible to find info about our origins. My family is very christan and they never talk about the origins or spirtual practices of our ancestors. They don't like anything that has to do with brujeria or anything that's not christan related. So I never grew up knowing about my origins until I decided to do a little more research.
With all due respect, NOT informing people WILL be the death of these traditions. I am not going to police closed practices, that is for the individual to decide if it’s appropriate for them. This comes from tiktok’s teenaged and young adult influence trying to be the spiritual police over minority groups they are not a part of. The Taíno culture has been oppressed for hundreds of years since 1495, if we don’t share these videos and discuss these practices and continue this oral tradition, IT WILL DIE. Researching this information is incredibly difficult because of the historical paper genocide. If we continue to talk about the Taínos in a past tense, only in a historical tense, and not being active in our preservation in our modern day present tense, this information will be reserved only for the privileged. This wealth of information will only be accessible from museum exhibits for the wealthy who can afford to go or through oral tradition being passed on. Our education in schools already removes so much of our Taíno history and culture that we barely know who we are. That is the level of paper genocide and erasure we had to endure. TH-cam is our new modern day oral tradition and this information is not and should not be private so that it can endure. Also, I’m not aware of any present day Taíno people being killed for their beliefs so your comment is speaking out of context from a historical standpoint that no longer exists. Taíno people in modern day are allowed to practice, that’s what these videos are for. We still have areytos and attend powwows. So I understand your sentiment, but let’s think about this in a present day and future tense for our people.
You are a blessing. I wanted this information so so badly and finally I can learn more about my people. It's so hard to find our ancestral I formation online in such an easy to understand way and in English. Sadly I don't speak Spanish lol.
Rosetta Stone for Spanish, although would be nice to have Taino Language on there because Spanish is the invader's language.
New subscriber. Safe to say us Taino are really yearning to learn our roots being as though school doesn’t teach it; parents and grandparents may no longer b here on earth any longer, or we just don’t trust ancestry. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I'm so happy to have found this video!
The wait is finally over this made MY day! Thank you so much
me weeping tears of joy at the all the linked sources 😭🎉
i been trying to learn about our Caribbean cousins the Taino, the younger Arawak generation are trying to rebuild our kingdoms of the spirit. Thank you for taking your time to study, this is helping our culture friend
Me encanta este contenido!! Me acabo de subscribir
I'm an Indigenous American/Jamaican Arawak-Lokono-Taíno Cacique Chief!
Much of my dna is dominican and puert rican. Born into Catholicism, but in a family slowly straying from it over time. The other side of my family is Venezuelan. Both sides are very close to their origin, my dad is an immigrant and my mom’s grandfather grew up farming in Santo Domingo, where they had for many generations. Ive been wanting to learn more about Taino culture, and watching this i see a startling amount of similarities to my own personal spiritual beliefs and Taino spiritism. Manifestations, not deities, and being grateful for all that’s around you. Im not one to be a person with strong belief of fate or belief traveling beyond spoken word, but i do find it to be something.
Me encanta tu libreta parece un libro! deberias imprimirlo y forrarlo.
Instantly obsessed I am! On another note, your style!! ❤️😍
I love this content, mija!!! I'm salvadoreño and it's so awesome seeing the overlap and differences in our practices and histories ❤✊❤
I can never thank you enough for the way you've lit a fire in my belly. Thank you so much, I pray we can hang out one day .
Love the video! Thank you for sharing all your research on the Taíno culture. 💜Can't wait for Part 2. 😉
Love you're channel 🤩
Great job Itu
Great video . My grandchildren are part taino and it's important to me that they know that spirituality.
This is excellent! Thank you for much needed information on our Taino culture!
Thank you so much!!! This video is beautiful and it’s amazing to watch. I’m so happy to have watched this
Thank you so much for this and your resources también!!!
this was a very nice video. Educational too. I've always been curious about my Taino roots but just now am brave enough to learn their culture. Thank you for making this.
Alafia and blessings beautiful bruja Thank you
Finallly!!! Been looking for info everywhere ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️thank you!
Thank you for sharing this! I’ve been trying to find things online and it’s hard as hell. Im grateful to have found your Tiktok and that you do youtube! Gracias!!
Hello AND THANK YOU so Much for This well researched info! I wanted to know more about MY own ancestral Spirits, Stories and Myths. I'd love more information about sacred ceremonies of the Tiano? Blessed be )O(
I’m happy to come across this video! I have been hungry for information on my ancestry religion practice and wanted to dig more in-depth about our roots!
Great video, can't wait to see the others and learn more about this.
I have always wondered about this. I've always felt very connected to it, my whole family lived in Puerto Rico until the 1920s and it became something we couldn't talk about because it was looked at all devil worship witch craft! So my family became christain
love learning about my beautiful islands history jus can't help it and makes me sad to know what really happened to a lot of our people
great spirit be with all da’ yono in this comment section
You are such a talented artista! 😊 I love the work you put into your journal. It’s inspiring me to do the same.
Thank you so much for putting all these resources in one place.
Thanks so much for this!
Taíno ti!
This is great!❤️
subbed
So much to learn .. will watch again .. Thank you 🥰🇵🇷
Omg I have been trying to get more in depth with spirtuality and trying to learn more about taino culture but it's hard to find info about it :( I'm so happy i stumbled upon your page and can't wait to see more content from you! Saludos!
Can you make a video about prayers to them or do we come up with them ourself and where should I start out I am just getting into my Taino ruts and I thank you soo much for the videos you make they are extremely helpful because i have been trying to find information about my people and I can’t really find anything but when I came to TH-cam you where the first page that had popped up so I clicked and now I know a lot more then I have
Hey, nice video. I’m Puerto Rican and I’ve been attempting to put together a system of magical practice, and I’ve been looking for any information I can find. I found some. I had it on my phone and then that phone died 😑 so I appreciate this video.
You really cleared up a lot for me thank you
Thankyou 🙏🏾✊🏾
Thank you for this video. I have been looking into this subject since last year and it has been SO very hard to look into. I am a 2nd generation Puerto Rican and wanted to learn the myths of my people and didn't realize how...removed...it was. I'm in for this ride!
Hello fellow Taina! Please let us know when you publish your book! (in English if possible)I would like a copy of it, I am trying to collect as much literature about Taino and your book is the first one I’ve seen that has different figures/depictions with information next to in your kind of detial, thank you!
Where can I find the herbal and ritual practices of what they did ect? 😊
Thank you so much for this!
Hola Bruja Cat, Which DNA test kit or site do you prefer? I'm curious cause I think some are bias.
yess finally !
You speak of Taino spirituality...I have cohoba snuff for you, when you are ready.
Your cat is such a cutie T_T
Awesome video!
yooo whats that book called on 0:18 need to buy it
My dad thinks he has a bit of Taino in him and my grandfather on my moms side was dark skinned and had a neanderthal type of skull so....Idk if I have any % of taino in me but all my grandparents are from puerto rico and I'm becoming more interested in my dna history now that I'm 30....
Español... Tengo muchas ganas de aprender.
I’m 50% Taino from my mothers side, and she thought me about the spiritual side of life around us. I would like to meet you some day for some extra knowledge.
I thought Yaya was the highest spirit and was a male. I read this in the mythology and religion of the tainos. The male spirits deal with the spirit realm and atabay represents the material world
This is like Japanese Shinto. The Taino and Lokono language also sound to me close to Japanese. Apparently they may have come to south America through the Pacific, and probably part of the polynesian people.
I’d love to make a video essay comparing Shintoism and Taíno cemidujo in the future!
These Deities are Annunaki
Como Puertoriqueño nacido y criado aya la palabra espiritismo no es la correcta, seria espiritualidad ya que el espiritismo es considerado voodoo/brujeria magia negra.
Jajajaja, ¿Confundiste el tarot con el juego de la lotería mexicana? Te pasaste, ese es un juego tradicional mexicano de principios de siglo XX.
Estas tan enojada con algo de que sabes nada sobre que echaste este comentario en un video que ni siquiera hablaba NADA sobre tarot ni la lotería mexicana. Este video no es sobre eso. Tal ves debes seguir leyendo y investigar sobre barajas de oráculo para encontrar lo que es posible cuando entiendes como hacer divinación. Las brujas pueden usar cualquier tipo de cartas, dominós, y otros útiles para divinación, no es solamente tarot. Y además, busca la historia de tarot y como fue creado… igualmente como la lotería, empezó como un juego. No digo esto con maldad, quiero ayudar a gente para entender magia y formas de brujería.
Hi, I’m Taino. Our spiritual practices our closed. Please take these videos down. We were literally killed for practicing our beliefs. And our elders worked so hard to revive our language and beliefs. It shouldn’t be shared with the world.
... I think it’s cool that she’s introducing things that were made dead generations ago by conquerors .
I totally understand where you are coming from but I am Puerto Rican and wasn’t taught my culture so finding people like this who share information is amazing for me. I don’t think she wants to invite people into a closed practice but there are many of us PR people who are disconnected with our roots and genuinely want to connect.
Respectfully, I understand the urge to keep spiritual practices hidden to prevent it from being watered down and exterminated. However it’s important to share this information to prevent it from being forgotten and lost. I’m Puerto Rican and I know nothing about my culture, I know nothing about pre-Christian spirituality because my family traded it in for Christianity and American culture. People like us need to learn to reconnect with our roots.
Unfortunatly our spiritual practices have been wiped out by spaniards and colonizers and it's almost impossible to find info about our origins. My family is very christan and they never talk about the origins or spirtual practices of our ancestors. They don't like anything that has to do with brujeria or anything that's not christan related. So I never grew up knowing about my origins until I decided to do a little more research.
With all due respect, NOT informing people WILL be the death of these traditions. I am not going to police closed practices, that is for the individual to decide if it’s appropriate for them. This comes from tiktok’s teenaged and young adult influence trying to be the spiritual police over minority groups they are not a part of. The Taíno culture has been oppressed for hundreds of years since 1495, if we don’t share these videos and discuss these practices and continue this oral tradition, IT WILL DIE. Researching this information is incredibly difficult because of the historical paper genocide. If we continue to talk about the Taínos in a past tense, only in a historical tense, and not being active in our preservation in our modern day present tense, this information will be reserved only for the privileged. This wealth of information will only be accessible from museum exhibits for the wealthy who can afford to go or through oral tradition being passed on. Our education in schools already removes so much of our Taíno history and culture that we barely know who we are. That is the level of paper genocide and erasure we had to endure. TH-cam is our new modern day oral tradition and this information is not and should not be private so that it can endure. Also, I’m not aware of any present day Taíno people being killed for their beliefs so your comment is speaking out of context from a historical standpoint that no longer exists. Taíno people in modern day are allowed to practice, that’s what these videos are for. We still have areytos and attend powwows. So I understand your sentiment, but let’s think about this in a present day and future tense for our people.