Attabeira, in Taíno cosmology, is the female spirit or cemí of fertility, mother to Yúcahu[1] and is associated with the freshwater bodies; rivers and ponds[2][3][4]. He was the supreme deity of the Taíno peoples[5]

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  1. ^ Stevens-Arroyo 2006, p.221
  2. ^ Fray Ramón Pané 1999 p.4
  3. ^ Stevens-Arroyo 2006, p.221
  4. ^ Rouse 1993, p.13
  5. ^ Rouse 1993, p.13


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References

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  • Fray Ramón Pané (1999). José Juan Arrom (ed.). An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians. Durham, NC ;London: Duke Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-2347-1. A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, & Appendixes by José Juan Arrom {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Arroyo, Antonio M. Stevens (2006). Cave of the Jagua : the mythological world of the Taínos (2. ed.). Scranton [u.a.]: Univ. of Scranton Press. ISBN 1-58966-112-5.
  • Rouse, Irving (1993). Tainos : Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (New ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05696-6.


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  1. ^ Fray Ramón Pané 1999, p.4
  2. ^ Stevens-Arroyo 2006, p.221
  3. ^ Rouse 1993, p.13
  4. ^ Rouse 1993, p.5