Abstract
Aboriginal religion has left hardly any traces in Cuba, except in certain practices of popular religion. The author takes archaeological discoveries and funerary objects of the Ciboneyes into account, indicating, notably, that ancestor worship existed there. She also describes the religiosity of the Tainos, who arrived on the island around the 8th century and whom the Spanish met at the time of the conquest. They hierarchized divinities, mixing together symbols of sun and moon, as well as earth, sea, manioc and disease. These peoples also adhered to a myth about the origin of humanity. The parallelism between West Indian (Antillais) myths and certain African myths has made for amalgams reproduced to this day. The Tainos, just like the Ciboneyes, used caves for drawing pictograms and for burial. African slaves continued these practices. The author establishes certain parallels with contemporary popular and spiritist cults.