The islands and the Maya world, island by island

SUMMARYThe islands and the Maya world, island by island (Nov 6, 2026). Taíno and island record now 35 entries. Record: Hatuey, a cacique from Ayiti, crossed to Cuba to organize resistance and was burned (1512); he said he would not go to a heaven with Christians (Las Casas). Record: Borikén's 1511 war: Diego Salcedo drowned under Urayoán, then the rising under Agüeybaná II, with resistance to 1519; the "test whether Spaniards die" telling is Disputed legend. Record: the Lucayans, first met at Guanahani (Oct 12, 1492), carried off to Ayiti and Cubagua as laborers and divers, gone from their islands by about 1520. Record: Xaymaca, the lunar eclipse of Feb 29, 1504 used by Columbus. MAYA LINKS, Record: ten jade axe-heads on Antigua (about 250–500 CE) match jadeitite from south of Guatemala's Motagua fault (Harlow et al.). The Maya merchant canoe at Guanaja (July 30, 1502) carried ceramics, dyed cotton, flint-edged swords and copper hatchets. Gonzalo Guerrero, shipwrecked 1511, joined the Maya and led them against Spain until killed (1536), a flip toward the land. GARIFUNA, Record: about 5,000 held on Balliceaux after the Second Carib War (1795–96), about half died; about 2,000 shipped to Roatán (1797), settling the Maya coast; UNESCO (2001). Record: Kalinago Territory, Dominica (1903); Santa Rosa First Peoples, Arima, Trinidad. Pattern: the sea was a road linking Ayiti, the Lesser Antilles and the Maya coast (jade, canoes, ballcourts, Hurakán), and the islands' people and the Maya coast are joined again through the Garifuna.