Although we are not usually interested in neo-Tainos, we do find them occasionally interesting. Here, in part of a travel Youtuber's video, one can see a group meeting at the important site of Caguana to engage in an areito. And they clearly did some research. One who has read Las Casas and Oviedo can immediately detect their influence in how this group imagines the areito dance. Indeed, there's even a man playing a drum that looks like one sketched in Oviedo's chronicle! Presumably, they're using one of the attempted reconstructions of the Taino language in their singing or chanting, but I could only detect the name Yucahu. Further, their cacique is wearing a belt with a design that suggests it was directly inspired by a famous cotton belt piece from around 500 years ago or so. Others wear skirts with well-known petroglyph figures or designs.
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