Atabey is an ancestral mother of the Taíno, one of two supreme ancestral spirits in Taíno mythology. She was worshipped as a zemi, which is an embodiment of nature and ancestral spirit (not to be confused with a goddess, a colonial term that replaces Taíno verbiage and culture) of fresh water and fertility; she is the female entity who represents the spirit of all horizontal water, lakes, streams, the sea, and the marine tides.
Atabey is an ancestral mother of the Taíno, one of two supreme ancestral spirits in Taíno mythology. She was worshipped as a zemi, which is an embodiment of nature and ancestral spirit (not to be confused with a goddess, a colonial term that replaces Taíno verbiage and culture) of fresh water and fertility; she is the female entity who represents the spirit of all horizontal water, lakes, streams, the sea, and the marine tides.
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