This'll have been my first post here since Fall 2022, hope everyone's OK and at least somewhat happy gamers, lol. Industry is broken.
So first and foremost, I got an Ancestry DNA kit the summer of the aforementioned year. I'm half Puerto Rican and half Dominican, its like 2 of the same ethnic backgrounds.
But I was more so anticipating heavy results in regards to the Taino. It turned out I'm a total 18% combined Quisqueyan and Boricua.
The most I've given to religious effort was Church participation on Sundays with my mother when I was 10 - 12 years old. The trips were pleasant, but let's just leave things at: I grew up to not ideologically agree with Catholicism for reasons pertaining to identity and the wrongs committed by its followers historically.
Basically, after I got my results, I was awestruck and felt a calling. There's no reason they shouldn't be around today.
As I researched more about Arawak culture and the Zemi, there were times I couldn't help but get emotional. There's lots of talk about the natural world. And tbh it depresses me there is no religious diversity in the Caribbean or South America. Just with sprinkles of surviving tribes like the Pemon.
I've also faced a fair share of criticism from my family, mainly from my father. The best I can do is humor him.
And I'm hoping y'all have an open enough mind to realize I'm not going to Hell. I'm secular with my faith.
I trusted Yucahu to get me through everything from my withdrawal from psychiatric meds, to my current struggle with hypertension. And I trust in him to help with what I plan to accomplish.
The world is s**t because of intolerance. Its within the wise words of kind people to tolerate each other.
And I hope y'all are faithful, with whichever God you praise to.
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