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Amaterasu, Sun Goddess  
Atabey

Other names: Atabei, Attabeira, Momona, Guacarapita, Iella, Guimazoa

Notes from Hrana

Goddesses & Heroines text

 
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Hrana's Notes

I painted Atabey for the cover of Sembrando y Sonando, a book about healing herbal healing and visioning in Puerto Rico.



Atabey
from Goddesses and Heroines
  Exerpt from Goddess & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan
[Used by permission. This text is NOT included in the Goddess Oracle]

The Primary Being of the pre-Hispanic people of the Antilles bore five names other than Atabei: Attabeira, Momona, Guacarapita, Iella, and Guimazoa. She was served by a messenger, Guatauva, and by the hurricane goddess Coatrischie. Little is known of her rites, although she was recognized as a form of the earth goddess by the Antillean people, whose culture was such that invading Spaniards called the women "amazons" and said that they lived alone and engaged in war. In some areas, the women even spoke a different language from the men of the same group.

Back to TOP Text from Patricia Monaghan's The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines
Published by Llewellyn, copyright 1997.   Used by permission of the author.

 



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