ladronaso,
No problems just a simple misunderstanding, I totally understand where you're coming from. I had previously posted a picture about The subject.


Zoe Saldana mixed of African, Arab, and European Ancestry

Gracias paisano but the pics I have are in a folder on my desk top.

Baracutei, This should definitely do the trick.


How To Post Pictures In The Internet

You can signup for a free photosharing site like http://www.flickr.com/ and upload the photos to their servers. You'll then have a public link that you can send to friends to so they can see your photos too. If you don't want other people to see them, both these sites have options to hide your photos so only friends can see them.


If you have a Photoshop with editing program use this link

How To Take A Picture Of Your Desktop/Post Pictures
http://www.discussanything.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70129



BTW I personally recommend flickr.com you will not have to buy software.

Hi Baracutei,
As a child my aunts will visit the curanderas and adivinadoras for fun and to see when the USA visa will come!! And I remember and at the same time wondered why some curanderas will say “se me encalo un Indio” meaning that the trance was with an “Indio spirit”. They will have specific names for them which I do not remember since I did not believe in pagan ways. Though their botanical remedies I respect and believe were proper.
Could it be that these Indios Spirits names were actually real names that were passed thru generations but lost perspective of their real origin?

Hola poponlaburra,
Yes in the DR curanderos specifically invoke or are "contacted" by Indian spirits. Our folklore contains much reference to the Indio or Indian religiosity which sometimes is confused with African religions or Voodoo.
For example in the DR specifically in San Juan de La Maguana you can hear people say "me hecharon la Guangua" or "te escupo la guangua", meaning that someone has put a curse or witchcraft on you or vice versa.
In one Taino creation story a being names Bayomanaco, became angry at another being named Deminan Caracaracol and spit from his nose a substance called Guanguayo. This Guanguayo became a tumor on Deminans back and grew to a huge size. Later his brothers cut out the tumor only to find a hicotea (turtle) which was a spirit being.
Its no stretch of the imagination that Guangua and Guanguayo are the same. Yet in our country some people attribute this word and action to an African origin, even though this practice or word are not found anywhere in the sub-saharan region where our African ancestors came from!

Our ancestors were deeply into ancestor worship. It stands to reason that perhaps after the Spanish christianized us, that perhaps this practice continues to a degree which is only now being looked at.
Thank you
Baracutei

I agree, a person can chose their own cultural identity...
and regardless of what group they belong to "racially"

For instance Pres. Obama is as White as he is Black "racially"
but at the same time he identify himself more with his Black side

Then a person can also identify themselves base upon the social
conditioning of the society that they live in, or how they were brought up
While at the same time a person might consciously and
deliberately chose to identify themselves to whatever they chose
regardless of how they were brought up and or socialized


in my view if a person his descended from both Taino
and Black, African or what ever the later maybe called or
group with then they should value and identify with both
This not to you specifically because I don't know you or read your other posts

dude, i cant understand what you are saying. you are not making sense man.

seem like its over your head

This is a good tread more people should post here
There is so much confusions and antagonism
concerning color and prototype in this world really
and it really are rooted in historical ignorance and (racism)