Yúcahu - also spelled Yukajú, Yocajú, Yokahu or Yukiyú -, alternatively known as Louquo (French word, corruption of the name "Yukú", which is in turn contraction of the name "Yukajú"), is the name of one of the main deities of Taino mythology; to which the primitive inhabitants of the island of the Greater Antilles and possibly the Bahamas worshiped. The lucayos of the Bahamas had a deida to which they called Iocauna Guamaonocón, which could be related to the Yúcahu of the Taínos also called Yokahú Vahva Maorocotí.
The Taíno ancestors would have emerged from the navel of this god, whom they considered to be the great cacique of the Turey (sky). Yúcahu rewarded the good ones after his death, making them enjoy a life full of delights in an abode of eternal joys, in the Taíno paradise, an island called Coaibai. According to the information left by the Spanish chroniclers, Yúcahu is the son of the goddess Atabey or Attabeira. The Arawak of Boriquén (Puerto Rico) believed that Yúcahu resided in the Forinjigüe or El Yunque, today a forest reserve. The name of this forest comes from yuké which means "white soil".
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