Yúcahu: Difference between revisions

'''Yúcahu''',<ref name="Pane 4">Fray Ramón Pané 1999, p.4</ref> —also written as '''Yukajú''', '''Yocajú''', '''Yokahu''' or '''Yukiyú'''— was the masculine spirit of fertility in [[Taíno people|Taíno]] [[mythology]].<ref name="Arroyo 221">Stevens-Arroyo 2006, p.221</ref> He was one of the supreme [[deity|deities]] or [[zemi|zemís]] of the [[Pre-Columbian]] [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Taíno peoples]] along with his mother [[Atabey (goddess)|Atabey]] who was his feminine counterpart.<ref name="Rouse 13" /> Dominant in the [[Caribbean]] region at the time of Columbus’ First voyages of Discovery, the peoples associated with Taíno [[culture]] inhabited the islands of the [[Bahamas]], the [[Greater Antilles]], and the [[Lesser Antilles]].<ref name="Pane 4" /><ref name="Arroyo 221" /><ref name="Rouse 13">Rouse 1993, p.13</ref><ref name="Rouse 5">Rouse 1993, p.5</ref>