Jamaica’s 7+ Storylines
© by Michael Auld Although next to the Indigenous Yamaye Taíno epics , Anansi the Spider-Man stories are the second oldest tales in Jamaica. Added to this, the island has 7 other types of Traditional Stories This blog is intended to introduce the reader to my Jamaican homeland's storytelling tradition. Some links are to additional relevant in-depth information. The Northern Caribbean's largest Taíno islands are my Yamayeka or Jamaica, the third largest. It is the size of Connecticut and is 90 miles south of Texas-sized, Spanish-speaking Cubanakan or Cuba. And 334 miles south of Cuba's eastern next-door island is its second-largest neighbor, the French-Creole-speaking Ayti Bohio or Haiti. Haiti is 232 miles east of the big island of Cuba whose coastline is just 90 miles south of the American coast of Florida, a place that the Teksta Taíno had called Bimini, their northernmost Bagua or Caribbean Sea territory which they had settled around 800 BC, just 20