The Cemí,Idol of Tabacco

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Cemi

This figure found also in engravings on stone, the most spectacular of whom was present in 1915  inside of the cavern of The Patana, Maisí, close-fitting in a stalagmite of superior height to a meter next to other ones, six engravings with figures of animals. The author of the finding was the North American archeologist Mark Harrington, transferred it to the Museum of the American Indian of New York.

TheClose-fitting has beautiful seashells, characteristics of the coasts of the Orient of the archipelago, utilized element to conform eyes, nose, mouth and another human features to represent through the figure one of its gods.The similitude of the figure with a giant-sized dark tobacco, the Cemí or idol of Tobacco as also it is  known.

The Cemí like the guaiacum it has been in carved,  are symbols of resistance and  has been the view of rebelliousness and independence headmen like Hatuey, Guamá and Guayo, whose ethnic features bequeathed us still in prevail enter the present-day population guantanamera like indelible check mark of singular patrimonial value.

 Fidel Castro Ruz,was the First figure  credito of  this recognition, next were received  Raúl Castro Ruz, the brigadier Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, first cosmonaut of Cuba and Latin America, and Félix Savón, Olympic and worldwide multi-champion of boxing, enter another personalities.