The Taíno record of Ayiti, saved

SUMMARYThe Taíno record of Ayiti, saved (Nov 6, 2026). Dataset chronoseer/datasets/taino_record.json/csv (24 entries; chapter numbers to verify against Arrom 1988). Source: Ramón Pané lived about four years among the Taíno of Ayiti and wrote down the elders' accounts (about 1498). The Spanish original is lost; it survives in an Italian translation (1571) and in Peter Martyr, Las Casas and Ferdinand Columbus, rebuilt by Arrom. Record: origin from the caves Cacibajagua and Amayaúna on Cauta. TRANSFORMATIONS: Mácocael to stone; fishermen to jobo trees; Yahubaba to a bird; the crying children to frogs; Inriri the woodpecker makes women; Yayael's bones to fish, and the broken gourd becomes the sea; Deminán's turtle. SKY AND WEATHER: Sun and Moon from Iguanaboina; Boinayel and Márohu, stone zemis visited in drought, after which rain followed; Guabancex with thunder and flood. THE DEAD: opía walk at night, eat guava, have no navel; Coaybay ruled by Maquetaurie Guayaba. MEDICINE: behique and cohoba. ZEMIS THAT MOVE: trees and stones that speak; Opiyelguobirán fled into a lagoon when the Spanish came; Faraguvaol wandered; Corocote came down at night. PROPHECY: a zemi told the ancestors of the caciques that a clothed people would come, overcome them and leave them to die of hunger. LEADERS: Anacaona (killed 1503); Enriquillo (peace 1533). LIVING LAYER: pierres-tonnerre in the ounfò (P791). Pattern with Maya and Mexica (P779, P780, P790): animal transformation, sky and rain powers, prophecy. Lens: the land's power is written down in Ayiti's first book, and it still sits in the ounfò as stone.