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The Bat Between Worlds
🦇 Honoring the Shadow and the Sacred Ancestral Echoes In TaÃno tradition — the Indigenous lineage of Borikén (Puerto Rico) and the Caribbean — the bat is a revered messenger. Bats dwell in sacred caves, portals to the spirit world where the souls of the departed reside. When dusk falls, they emerge to feast on guava, a fruit believed to nourish the spirits of the dead. To the TaÃno, the bat was a bridge between life and death, a keeper of the underworld’s wisdom, and a guide

Evren Ryu
Oct 313 min read
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Survival Through Syncretism
Day 15 – The Sacred Art of Camouflage The Waxing Crescent Moon in Sagittarius rises tonight, carrying the spark of revelation and the courage to speak truth without apology. For me — a Sagittarius Sun — that truth is simple: We have survived by adapting our light. When colonizers tried to extinguish the faith and ceremony of the Indigenous and African peoples of the Caribbean, the TaÃno and their descendants learned the sacred art of camouflage. Their deities took new forms,

Evren Ryu
Oct 242 min read
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