Yocahu (Taino Supreme God of Fertility)
Yocahu (Yucahu Bagua Maorocoti) was the supreme deity and masculine spirit of fertility in Taino mythology -- the greatest of all zemis. His full name, recorded by the Spanish missionary Fray Ramon Pane in 1498, carries multiple meanings: Yucahu means giver of cassava (the staple crop), Bagua means master of the sea, and Maorocoti means conceived without male intervention -- born solely from his mother Atabey, the goddess of fresh water. Yocahu is the supreme creator god who shaped the Earth, created the sun and moon from a cave, and molded the first humans from clay. He is the god of agricult