Language of the Voiceless: Traces of Taino Language, Food, and Culture in the Americas From 1492 to the Present

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P a g e | 55 Once again, (and as stated in the quote above) we come across with a secondary subservient group to the Taino which appears to be the group of choice for slave labor and kidnapping. Nonetheless, the true importance of the word Lucayos (in spite its omission from the final version of the text) is that its suffix cayo gave birth to the Spanish-French-English word for cayo, cay, quay or key to refer to a shallow sand bank along the coastline or a small island in the middle of shallow waters. However, this word in the Taino sense is a possible corruption of yucayu or as stated by Fray Ramón Pané, the goddess of the Taino-Ciguayo myth of creation. inmortal, y que nadie puede verlo, y que tiene madre, más no tiene principio," ya éste llaman Yúcahu Bagua Maórocotí," y a su madre llaman Atabey, Yermao, Guacar, Apito y Zuimaco, que son cinco nombres," Éstos de los que escribo son de la isla Española; porque de las otras islas no sé cosa alguna por no haberlas visto jamás It is truly remarkable that based on the archeological and anthropological data this Guanahatabeyes group is depicted as an earlier migratory group and that their creation myths regarding Yúcayu and Atabey (at least as stated by Pané) are the religious myth about creation and how the indigenous people populated the Caribbean and Hispaniola shared by the Taino. It is, as if the Taino drew from the earlier migratory groups for their mythology and became a cohesive pre-Columbian society. Therefore, when chronicles such as Diaz del Castillo and Velazquez de Cuellar categorize this group as savage and less developed, they unintentionally are supporting the claim of different migratory groups to the Caribbean intertwined with the Taino. Chapter II, page 10 True History of the Conquest of New Spain
P a g e | 56 Y una mañana, que fueron cuatro de marzo, vimos venir diez canoas muy grandes, que se dicen piraguas, llenas de indios naturales de aquella poblazón, y venían a remo y vela. Son canoas hechas a manera de artesas, y son grandes y de maderos gruesos y cavados, de arte que están huecos; y todas son de un madero, y hay muchas dellas en que caben cuarenta indios. In the above quote we come across the next Taino words in our analysis of the text: canoas and piraguas. However, it is very remarkable that Diaz or the possible writer of the text used the Taino word canoa to describe its Carib cousin piragua. In the text, the chronicle states that “these types of canoes are called piraguas”. It is curious, that the writer never used any of the Spanish synonyms of the time such as almadía, balsa, bote, navío, barco, or bergantin to name the boats. Instead, the word of choice was canoe as if this word was part of the writer’s intrinsic vocabulary and used by pure linguistic default. As a matter of fact, it is not until later in the text (page 40 to be exact) that some of these Spanish synonyms are introduced to name ships and such, but always associated with the conquistadors. The instances any boats used by Indians appeared in the text, they were often called by their Taino-Carib names canoa and piragua. However, regarding the etymology of these two words, canoa it’s believed to comes from the Arawak can (and as stated before) at times associated with center, eye or hollow. Furthermore, in Lokono, Kanóa also means vessel. However, what is truly remarkable about all these words is the visual-symbolic similarities among them.
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