🦇 Honoring the Shadow and the Sacred Ancestral Echoes In Taíno 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 Taíno, the bat was a bridge between life and death, a keeper of the underworld’s wisdom, and a guide