Guanine was a Taino Indian sister Agüeybaná Bravo, head of the tribe and a group of brave warriors, the supreme chief of the entire island of Puerto Rico. Guanine in the Taíno language means "Shining like gold."
The Spanish conquerors had seized the island of Borinquen, so then called the island of Puerto Rico.
At that time, an Indian named Guarionex lived in love with guanine. Guanine was the sister of the supreme cacique, or chief of all the tribes of the island.
Each time you saw Guarionex guanine, his heart beat so that he looked like he wanted out of my chest. Every time he saw him declaring his love. She was not his because he lived in love with a Spanish conquistador named Don Cristobal de Sotomayor, mayor and founder of a village who had baptized with his own name.
Guarionex, full of deadly hatred toward Sotomayor, shouted: - Don Cristobal, one of the two must die! You do not deserve to live because you stole the love of guanine, and I do not want to live if I need your love.
The Indians could no longer endure the cruel treatment of the Spaniards. The Taino Indians had received with friendship and had celebrated the ceremony guatiao (brotherhood pact sealed with the exchange of names). So the chief Agüeybaná was also called Don Cristobal.
Spanish, ignoring the pact, they were distributed to the Indians as servants. Especially they exploded in the goldfields. And they exploited the Indians longed to be free again. One night, entered into a areito (meetings to celebrate their festivals, remember traditions, and make decisions, especially when it was necessary to decide on a war). That night and the Taino Agüeybaná decided that the Spaniards had to die for them to be free again.
Guarionex wanted the town of his greatest enemy, it was Don Cristobal de Sotomayor. Güarionex could not kill Don Cristobal de Sotomayor Sotomayor because at that time was nearing the hut of Agüeybaná where guanine warned that save as the Indians had risen against him.
Sotomayor went with his soldiers to the town of Caparra to see the Governor. Agüeybaná lent Sotomayor about naborias to help him with the load. But secretly told them that when the attack began, fleeing with vitualles. Guanine Sotomayor refused to leave and flee just went with it.
The Taino Indians pursued and the attack began. Sotomayor fought fiercely with his sword while the blows of truncheons Indians were opening deep wounds him. At the time of greatest danger, guanine and Sotomayor came between the Indians and received his mortal wound body was addressed to her lover. In that moment of distraction Sotomayor, Agüeybaná advantage to pierce with his arrow. Sotomayor fell into the arms of his beloved guanine.
Agüeybaná sent to bury them together, but Sotomayor feet left him out of the tomb so that he could not find his way to the land of the dead.
Shortly after the Spaniards rescued the bodies and buried them next to each other, at the foot of a steep cliff in the shadow of a huge ceiba.
Since then, the Jivaro say that when the wind stirred overnight leafy tree branches, a murmur, which is not the rustle of leaves is heard, and two very white lights, which are no lights or cucubano are fireflies, but the spirits of guanine and floating Sotomayor, dance and merge, singing the joy of being together forever.
cucubano = flying insect that emits a blue light at night.