BORIKEN NATIVES and DRUG ETIQUITTE LOL.... This cohoba is their means of praying to the idol and also of asking it for riches. When they wish to know if they will gain a victory over their enemies, they enter a hut to which only the principal men are admitted. And the lord is the first to make the cohoba and plays an instrument; and while he makes the cohoba none may speak. After he has finished his prayer he remains for some time with bowed head and arms resting on his knees; then he lifts his head, looks up to the sky, and speaks. All respond to him in a loud voice, and having spoken, they all give thanks; and he relates the vision he had while stupefied with the cohoba that he snuffed up his nose and that went to his head. He tells that he has spoken with the cemi and that they will gain the victory, or that their enemies will flee, or that there will be many deaths, or wars, or famines, or the like. or whatever comes to his addled head to say. One can imagine the state he is in, for they say the house appears to him to be turned upside-down and the people to be walking with their feet in the air. This cohoba they make not only for the cemíes of stone and wood but also for the bodies of the dead, as told above. There are different kinds of stone cemíes. Some the doctors extract from bodies of sick people, and it is believed these are the best to induce childbirth in pregnant women. There are other cemíes that speak; these have the shape of a large turnip with leaves that trail over the ground and are as long as the leaves of the caper bush; these leaves generally resemble those of the elm, others have three points: The natives believe they help the yucca grow. The root resembles that of the radish, and the leaf generally has six or seven points. I know not with what to compare it, because I have seen no plant like it in Spain or in any other country. The stalk of the yucca is a high as a man.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:11:20 +0000
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