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Meaning of espátulas vómicas




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

espátulas vómicas
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They are elongated, spatulate and curved implements that are used to induce vomiting before indigenous rituals. This practice is performed to "purify the body", leaving the stomach empty, which allows the officiant to be impacted with greater effect by hallucinogenic dreds and facilitates rapid entry into trance. They are usually made with manatee rib bones.

  




Santiago Miguel Carnago López

The vomic spatulas: they are artifacts in the form of palette, usually carved into bone, shell, wood are specifically for ritual use in Taina civilization that inhabited mainly in the Greater Caribbean Islands : Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Used to cause vomit as a sign to the gods that their stomachs had nothing wrong

  



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