Mi gente this Cemi representing Yukiju, masculine spirit of fertility, is more than just a beautiful art work. Its function as represented in this triangulito, is to fertilize the earth. As you can see its arms in the front and its hunched legs in the back, propel it forward and into the ground, as his open mouth swallows the earth, fertilizing it and releases it back onto the earth. The top of the Cemi represents an erect peinus that when pushed into the ground symbolize copulation and fertilization, causing the crops to sprout, to grow, to flower, and bear fruit. He sustained the lives and the very cultures of the Antilles as a fertility god, an all-seeing heavenly benefactor. The triangulito was ceremoniously buried and urinated upon as part of the fertility ceremony. Yúcahu Bagua Maórocoti, lord of the Yuka, giver of life. Your people are still here. Gather us into your loving arms swallow us and deliver us back onto this earth as Tainos. Help our people reawaken from this passive dream state, make us whole again, jan jan katu.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:57:59 +0000
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