Everything has a cycle. In the beginning, there was the cycle of the mineral, the continuous process that forms, alters, and reforms the rocks of the Earth. The next complex cycle was of the plants characterized by alternation of generations, which is the flexibility to adapt to changing environments. Then came the birth, growth, reproduction and death stages of the life cycle of all animals. As we come to the end of the animal cycle, we must learn what it is to be like an animal on this earth. The cycle of the animals is coming to an end to bring about the beginning cycle of the human. Birth and death are human cycles very similar to the cycle a flower has from seed to blossom to withering. Each cycle of life teaches us to blossom in new ways. When we get into the cycle of the human being, the great powers will be released to the human. They will be released from that light or soul that we carry to the mind.
All peoples share traditions that include the symbolism of four as part of their core belief systems. No group has lived so completely in unity and reverence to the seasonal cycles of Earth Mother and the universal system as the indigenous peoples of North America. Most significantly, the Hopi believe we are living in the fourth world. Hopi tradition states the first world was Endless Space, the second was Dark Midnight, the third was the Age of Animals and the fourth is the World Complete. Four migrations were written upon four sacred tablets which man was supposed to undertake once in this fourth world; to separate into smaller tribes, divided by color, and began to migrate in four different directions, settling in new lands.
NOTE* - The Hopi prophesies predicted the coming of the white man and many of the events that have occurred over the cycle. The prophecies further predict the white man’s destruction. While the Hopi choose not to judge the white man, they also choose not to join in the headlong rush to The End of Days.
The Hopi have a very special relationship to the earth. The Hopi (and other pueblo tribes) build special sacred ceremonial places into the earth to honor that relationship. These are special places that Shaman enter into the earth to do their most sacred work. These special places are called Achivas (kivas).
According to Hopi prophecy, each time mankind has been destroyed at the end of a great age, the pure in heart have gone into the bosom of the Earth to live and be protected. The people are cared for there by a group of beings called ‘The Ant People.’ The people live deep inside the earth until “star visitors” lead them to the surface.
The Hopi believe there will be nine worlds or ages: three previous worlds, the present Fourth World, the coming Fifth World, and two more future worlds: The Sixth, which is “The World of Prophecy and Revelation” and The Seventh Age, “The World of Completion.” Beyond that, there is also the world of Taiowa, the Creator, and his nephew, Sotuknang. The end of each world has been signified by the appearance of the blue star in the night sky.
Maasaw who was a guardian spirit provided the Hopi with information on how and where they should migrate and settle down. Everything was symbolically written on four sacred tablets given to them.
** The Sioux believe that man has evolved through four ages, calling them the Age of Fire, Age of Rock, Age of the Bow, and Age of the Pipe. The length of each age is unknown, but the prophecy is that during the time of each age, man would gradually become a "two-heart".
It is said, this is the moment Indigenous World-view understands all former failed human systems and overbearing authorities cease to be given power by their Creator and the meek Indigenous voice returns to those who inherit the earth. A new era has begun. It is a time to celebrate a coming together of all people. If we fast and pray in this cycle, purification will result and we will be able to hear the humble voice of our Indigenous Elders. It is these Elders who offered the Hopi tablets to assist in the purification of the fourth world. These are the four Hopi tablets of the Fire Clan and Bear Clan: From an ancient time in the past, these tablets were given to the Hopi by Massau (Masaw, the Guardian of the Underworld, who requested they keep them until a number of signs were fulfilled at the end of the fourth world and the beginning of the warning signs occurred the Hopi were instructed to reveal the tablets and their prophecies to the world regarding the purification of the earth. Then the missing piece of the Hopi Tablet would be revealed:
So it was in the beginning, the Great Spirit came down and made an appearance. The Great Spirit gathered the peoples of this earth together and said to the human beings, “I will send you to the four directions of Earth and over time I will change you to four colors. I will give to you the Original Teachings and when you come back together from the four directions, you will share these, so that you can live and have peace on earth. From this, a great civilization will come about.” The Creator forewarned, “During the cycle of time I will give each of you two stone tablets. When I give you those stone tablets, do not cast those upon the ground. If any of the brothers and sisters of the Four Directions and the four colors cast their tablets on the ground, not only, will human beings have a hard time, but most assuredly the earth itself will die.”
The Great Spirit gave each of the four races stone tablets. The people of the red race and their stone tablets are at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners Area on Third Mesa. The people from the black race and their stone tablets are at the foot of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kikuyu Tribe. The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans, in Tibet. The Tibetan word for “sun” is the Hopi word for “moon” and the Hopi word for “sun” is the Tibetan word for “moon”.
The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss. In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its mask. They still know the colors of the families; they still know the symbols, some of them. Each of these four peoples happens to be people that live in the mountains.
The Creator then gave each a responsibility called the Guardianship. To the red people, the Great Spirit gave the Guardianship of Mother Earth. We were to learn the teachings of the earth; the plants that grow from and within the earth, the foods that can be eaten, and the herbs used for healing. And when we come back together with the other brothers and sisters we will share this knowledge with them. From this, good things will happen on the earth.
To the South the Great Spirit gave the yellow people the Guardianship of the wind. The yellow people were to learn about the sky; breathing; and how to take that within ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with their brothers and sisters is at this time.
To the West the Great Spirit gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the water. The black people would learn the teachings of the water, which is the chief of the elements, being humble and powerful, and bring the teachings of the water to their brothers and sisters. From this, good things will happen on the earth.
To the North the Great Spirit gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the fire. They are responsible for learning all there is to know of this element which consumes and moves. This is why it was the white brothers and sisters who began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite as a human family.
So we went through this cycle of time and each of the four races went to their directions and they learned their teachings, because that was our Guardianship, to learn the teachings of the earth, and the things that grow from the earth. We were given a sacred handshake to show when we came back together as brothers and sisters that we still remembered the teachings.
It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first brothers and sisters that would come back to them would come as turtles across the land. They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles. But, when the time came close, the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land and they got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert and they saw the Spanish Conquistadores coming, covered in armor, like turtles across the land. They went out to the Spanish man and they extended their hand hoping for the handshake, but into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket.
It was then that the word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things, and all the human beings were going to suffer for this on the earth. It was in this time that the tribes began to send people to the mountains to have visions and try to figure out how they could survive. At that time there were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound civilization: cities built on great mounds. Those mounds are still there. They began to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time was going to come. People came on the east coast and they went across this land to the west and they were told in the prophecies that we should try to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness of all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace on earth. But if we did not do that, if we had not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth and shake it.
Among the treaty negotiations from Red Jacket of the Six Nations on the east coast of this land, to Chief Joseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land, the same was proclaimed. Chief Joseph said, “I accord you the right, and I hope you accord me the right, to live in this land.” Always we were trying to live together. But instead of living together, there was separation, there was segregation. They separated the races: they separated the Indians, and they separated the blacks.
When they got to the west coast of this land the elders that were made aware of these prophecies said they would build a black ribbon and on this black ribbon would move a bug. They claimed, when you see this bug moving on the land, that was the sign for the First Shaking of the Earth. The First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would begin to move and fly in the air. By the end of this shaking, the bug will be in the air encircling the world. Behind it would be a trail of dust and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth would become dirty and clouded from these trails of dust, and this would cause many diseases that would get more and more complicated. The bug moving upon the land, was easy to see. The elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about to come and that signaled the First World War.
The bug foretold moving into the sky….. and we see in the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the first time. There would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land and so the elders began to watch for this. They began to hear that there was going to be a League of Nations in San Francisco so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the tribes could be included in the League of Nations.
At that time the United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and semi- sovereign nation, not a part of the United States, but protected by it. They did not write back and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations, leaving that circle incomplete. This was due in fact, because people didn’t want the reservations to become more and more separate. They didn’t want them to be considered nations. In the League of Nations circle there was a southern door, the yellow people; there was a western door, the black people; there was a northern door, the white people; but the eastern door was not attended. The elders knew that peace would not come on the earth until the circle of humanity was complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and shared their teachings, and then peace would come on earth.
The Elders knew things would happen, such as the building of a cobweb around the earth, and people would talk across this cobweb. When this talking cobweb, (the telephone), was built around the earth, a sign of life would appear in the east, but it would tilt and bring death (the swastika of the Nazis). It would rise up with the sun. But the sun itself would rise one day not in the east but in the west. (the Japanese Empire). The Elders claimed when you see the sun rising in the east and you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you know that the Great Death is to come upon the earth. Again, the Great Spirit will grab the earth and shake it, and this shaking will be worse than the first. These two symbols are carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders saw these two flags, these were the signs that the earth was to be shaken again.
The worst misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the “gourd of ashes”. They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make the people like blades of grass in the prairie fire and things will not grow for many seasons. It is the atomic bomb as the gourd of ashes. The Elders would have spoken of it and foretold it’s coming if they could have entered into the League of Nations. The elders tried to contact President Roosevelt and ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater destruction and a Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War.
The Elders knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of ashes fall from the sky, then there would be an attempt to make peace on the other side of this land. But the peace attempt on the west coast fails, so they would build a special house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the earth would come to this house and it would be called the House of Mica and it would shine like the mica on the desert shines. The elders witnessed they were building the United Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they knew this was the House of Mica and all the peoples of the earth should go to it. So they met and talked about this. The Elders said this time we should go to the front door of the House of Mica because things will surely get worse.
So elders representing a number of tribes drove to New York City, when the United Nations opened. They went to the front door of the house of Mica and they said these words: “We represent the indigenous people of North America and we wish to address the nations of the Earth. We’re going to give you four days to consider whether or not we will be allowed to speak.”
They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State. The Six Nations Reserves are keepers of the Great Law of Peace of the prophet that appeared here in North America, Deganawida. And this Law of Peace is still recited; it takes four days between sunrise and noon.
Each year a tribal member, must recite by memory at this appointed time of year. Four days later they came back and the nations of the earth heard that the tribal members had come to the door. And the House of Mica voted to let them in. They wanted to hear what they had to say. But the United States is one of five nations of the United Nations with a veto power and still they were concerned because this time the Native sovereignty was even stronger, so they vetoed the entrance of the Native people.
They retreated to the Six Nations Reserve and talked amongst themselves about this because they knew other things would happen on the Earth, and the United Nations would not bring peace on earth. There would be continuing and deepening confusion. They said, “We’re going to divide the United States into four sections and each year we’re going to have a gathering. We’re going to call these the ‘White Roots of Peace Gatherings’.” They began to have these around 1950. And they authorized certain men to speak in English for the first time about these prophecies.
The Elders said “You’re going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beings are going to find the blueprint that makes us.” They call that now, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. They are going to cut this blueprint and they will call it, genetic splicing. They’re going to make new animals upon the earth, and they’re going to think these are going to help us. And it’s going to seem like they do help us. But the grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to suffer.” The Elders said long ago, “They will release these things, they will use them.” This is going to be released not too long from now. They are making new animals. You will see new animals, and even the old animals will come back, animals that people thought had disappeared. They will find them here and there. They’ll begin to reappear.”
NOTE* - The prophecy of the eagle and condor is a Native American prophecy that originated from the Quechua and Hopi tribes. It foretells the reunion of the Eagle, representing the North, and the Condor, representing the South, after a period of separation and conflict. The prophecy states that in ancient history, the human race was split between those of the Condor who pursued intuition, love, and connection with the Great Spirit, and those of the Eagle who would pursue intellect, industrialization, and science. The story of the eagle and the condor represents the masculine and feminine constituents of civilization and the interplay between them.
The Elders said, many of you are from tribes that also have this prophecy, “You’re going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest in the night and it will land upon the moon.” Some tribes say the eagle will circle the moon. Some tribes say the eagle will fly its highest in the night. “And at that time,” they say, “Many of the Native people will be sleeping,” which symbolically means they have lost their teachings. There are some tribes that say it will be as if they are frozen: they’ve been through the long winter. But they say, “When the eagle flies its highest in the night, that will be the first light of a new day. That will be the first thawing of spring.” Of course, at the first light of a new day, if you’ve stayed up all night, you notice it’s really dark. And the first light, you want to see it, but you can’t. It sneaks up on you. You want to see it change but its dark and then pretty soon it’s getting light before you know it. Traditionally, Native people from the Inuit region, down to the Quechuas in South America have shared this prophecy. When they heard those first words, “The Eagle has landed,” they knew that was the start of a new time and a new power for Native people. There was absolutely nothing strong before them now and they may do anything they wish.
In the prophecies of the Six Nations people they say there will be two great uprisings by black people to free themselves. We’ve seen one about 1964. There will be a second, more violent one to come. In 1776 when the United States Government printed the dollar, in one claw of the eagle, there is an olive branch. In the other claw is thirteen arrows. The founding fathers of the United States said that represents the 13 States. The Elders, however, say that represents the enslavement of the Native people.
NOTE* - When the Eagle landed on the moon, they decided to print a special silver dollar to commemorate that. In the original design was the space capsule landing on the moon, but just before printing, it was changed to an eagle. And in the eagle’s claws is the olive branch, but the arrows are gone. The elders claimed, “That’s our prophecy- we have been released.” There was one more uprising coming for the black race of people and then they will be released and this is also going to have a good effect on Native people. There’s a whole new set of prophecies from the Iroquois people about that.
That time is upon us now. We will be between the first light of a new day and the sunrise. The sunrise is about to come and when it comes up, those awake are going to see it. There are a few people that get up early, and there are some that sleep until noon. They said when that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin to come back to us. We witnessed that within seven days of the time of the Eagle landing on the moon, the first Native alcoholism program was started on an Apache reservation in Arizona. And again, within seven days of the time the Eagle landed on the moon, the Freedom of Indian Religion Act was introduced into the United States Congress. It was passed in November of 1978 and signed by President Carter. Prior to this it was punishable to go to jail for 10 years and/or a $10,000 fine for singing, dancing or doing a ceremony, like the Sweat Lodge or the Sun Dance. This was changed less than seven days after the Eagle landed on the moon. These are the physical manifestations of the spiritual prophecies that we have.
The Elders said at this time you’re going to see that things will speed up; that people on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seem like time is going faster and faster. The Elders advised us that as things speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you must go. That is because there’s going to come a time when the earth is going to be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has shaken the earth two times: the First and Second World Wars to remind us that we are One Human Family and to remind us that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. We had a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle that would have brought peace on earth, but we missed that.
The Elders talk about the sign for the Third Shaking of the Earth. They said they’re going to build what the elders called the “House in the Sky”. In the 1950s they talked about this. In 1971, the Soviet Union developed and launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The Almaz and Salyut series were eventually joined by Skylab, Mir, and Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2. n 2022, the TSS finished its phase 1 construction with the addition of two lab modules: Wentian ("Quest for the Heavens"), launched on 24 July 2022, and Mengtian ("Dreaming of the Heavens") launched on 31 October 2022, joining the ISS as the most recent space station operating in orbit.
The Elders declared, they will build a house and throw it in the sky. When you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this time not with one hand, but with both hands. “The spirits will warn you twice, but the third time you stand alone.” We’ve had two warnings, the first two World Wars, but now we stand alone in the third one… There will be no-one protected. When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to shake the Earth a third time and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them it is going to drop.
They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great that when you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, and in the prophecies these are called “villages of stone”, or “prairies of stone”. And they said the stone will grow up from the ground and you will not be able to see beyond the village. At the center of each and every one of these villages will be Native people, and they will walk as “hollow” shells upon a “prairie of stone”. They said “hollow shells” which means they will have lost any of their traditional understandings;they will be empty within. They said after the Eagle lands on the moon some of these people will begin to leave these “prairies of stone” and come home and take up some of the old ways and begin to make themselves reborn, because it’s a new day. But many will not.
The Elders said there’s going to come a time when in the morning the sun is going to rise and this village of stone will be there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming from the ground. In the center of many of those villages of stone, when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn to steam because they never woke up and left the village. The Elders claim, that if a person does not have the spiritual eyes to see, then we cannot show them. And if they do not have the ears to hear, then we cannot speak with them. This is the way, some are not going to wake up, and some will wake up.
This is going to be the “third shaking of the earth.” This will be a terrible thing to see, but we will survive it, and when we survive it, then there’s going to be another attempt to make a circle of the human beings on the earth. All four colors of the four directions will share their wisdom, and there will be a peace on earth because in this time, the Native people will not have to petition to join. They will be invited to enter the circle because they say the attitude towards us will have changed and people will let us into the circle.
NOTE* - There once came a young man named Deganaweda, of Huron birth from the North Country, to what we know as the upper western portion of New York State,. As a child, he prevailed upon peaceful ways of existence and of harmony among the tribes. It is said that Deganaweda suffered from a speech impediment; he had stuttered since childhood. Along the way, he found only deaf ears amongst his own Huron people, for they were war-like and not given to the ways of peace. His words recounted the importance of the heart and called for an end to war- like ways and sacrifices of blood.
Deganaweda began a journey that would eventually bring his teachings to the five tribes of the Haudenosaunee and eventually, six when they were joined by the Seneca peoples. Through his efforts, they created a confederation of tribes, centered around a form of self-ruling government, in which there would be no royalty, no tyranny, and no need for war. This unification of the tribes would later be referred to as the Great Iroquois Confederacy. Which would include the Mohawk, Onandaga, Tuscarora, Cayuga and Oneida people, who would later be joined by the Seneca and the Mohican. The Mohicans would later be all but wiped out by the Huron’s, leaving the Confederacy composed of six nations.
Deganaweda was challenged by a Grandmother to share his teachings with Hiawatha, hoping he could convince the angry Hiawatha, the beast of the woods, to walk in peace and harmony During his journey Deganaweda met Hiawatha, who lived as a hermit deep within the forest because he held a great bitterness in his heart. He grieved over the slaughter of his family by the Onadaga chief., then perhaps there was something to this wisdom. If he succeeded in changing the heart of this beast, then all the tribes would surely listen to him.
Deganaweda met with Hiawatha and spoke with him from his heart, for he was filled with the Great Spirit and had no fear. This meeting with Deganaweda caused a transition within Hiawatha’s being. They became inseparable, and from the wisdom taught to him by Deganaweda, Hiawatha became a renewed human being. A great friendship grew between the two, and Hiawatha became Daganaweda’s chief disciple. For this reason, Hiawatha became known as the chief spokesperson for Daganaweda’s Great Peace - the Kia ëneri Kowa.
They taught the importance of the Mother/Father Principle through the inner balance of male and female within the self and in all relationships,. They taught of love and unity, with reverence for the Creator of all mankind and the sacredness and honor of all life. They taught that the human race was one great family and in this way the Great Peace was established. It established social order that centered its strength around the family fire and unity. In the Great Peace it was taught that from these single families would come the basis of authority, leadership and the strength of the people. A natural order of social living was encouraged that allowed for the spiritual expression of all individuals.
It recognized that women are the keepers of the family lineage and as the bearers of life, they teach the knowledge of harmony and balance within the family. The tribe is the extended family, and neighboring tribes should be considered relatives who are necessary for a healthy genetic evolution, an extended family. The balance within the whole of a society originates with the individual. The balance of male/female within the individual expands to the relationship between man and woman, and then into relationship with their offspring. This then expands into the extended family. All women are mothers to all the children, as are all men their fathers. The tribe was a living ecosystem for human consciousness, the living heart.
In this framework, women had equal status within the tribal council. They formed the Council of Grandmothers that looked out for the survival of the family structure above all things, for without the family structure, the people could not continue. No major decision that would affect the tribe as a whole was ever made by one individual of either gender, or any singular council; all councils were accountable to the Council of Grandmothers. Thus, they had devised a matriarchal system whereby no structure of dictatorship could arise and seize power from the people themselves. There simply was no position that allowed for the rise of a tyrant within their society.
The teachings of Deganaweda the Great Peace likened all war to quarrelling amongst children. Spiritual teachings were intermingled with the teaching of balance in the social order. In this culture there was no separation between living an abundant, full life and the expression of spiritual practice and beliefs because social laws were created out of an evolved spiritual understanding of human nature. In this manner, human beings learned to live in harmony with nature, thus they dwelt in a state of harmony within themselves. For nature was the kingdom with which humankind shared their dream. Mankind and Womankind were seen as spirit alive in the flesh. There was One Creator, One Father. There was one Mother. From this union came forth all their children--the human race.
The teachings were so powerful that the tribes of the Algonquin people formed the Iroquois Confederacy. All things must change and Deganaweda would not be amongst the people forever. He heard the call to move on along his journey but before he would go he would deliver his final message to the people. It was time for him to fulfil his agreement here that he had long ago made with Creator. The people were very saddened by the announcement of his departure from them. He met with the People one last time upon the shores of the Bay of Quinte, near what is now Lake Ontario. All the tribes were asked to send representatives to participate in a great ceremony to show their integrity and their commitment to the Great Peace. At this ceremony it is said that the people who represented each tribe of the confederacy buried their weapons of war into a huge pit over which they planted an evergreen tree.
This tree represented the Tree of Life. Its branches reached to the heavens, to the Father. The tree and its roots represented the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy. The tree would grow, and send its roots deep into the earth to draw its nourishment and strength from the Mother, as did the people. The tree of life was planted upon an island in the lake, which was mostly white granite. The White granite represented, as did the white shells of the wampum belt a blanket of purity, the Mothers most pure mind. Some say that this tree is still alive today. Wrapped within her robe of purity and wisdom, the Mother protects that original dream and wishes of those who participated in this great ceremony. Deganaweda spoke to them of Three Great Ideals, upon which they could build their foundation of self-government:
Ne Skin. Purity of the mind and of the body are tied together through the experience of the flesh. It is called the Human Drama, which is the dance through this life. Harmony between groups of people, for all of our human existence is realized through mastering the experience of relationships between each other. Inner harmony and peace, and the true union with the creator, the source of all life is realized through maintaining of the balance of the spirit, while it is alive in the flesh.
Our purpose along our path is the expression of divine love of the Creator and the divine Mother through our actions, and emotions given and received through our expression of that divine love. For all has been given to us, without question, that we might reflect that which we receive from Creator and the divine Mother which is unconditional love.
Ne Gaiihwijo. Righteousness in deeds, action, as well as our thought should be the premise for all conduct. Our action is the expression of our true thought. Our actions often times speak louder than our words, for it is through action the inner self, the true state of being is expressed.
When we maintain a state of most pure mind, we deal with life’s events with open heart. Thus we are acting as the expression of the Creator. In this manner we maintain a justice and equality in dealing with human rights, in integrity of spirit. The superior quality within all beings is the expression of Creator who always speaks through the human heart.
Remember always it in the heart of a thing that its spirit can be found, and within its spirit is the very essence of the Creator. Creator’s deeds being from the heart are always righteous and Sacred. Our actions thus applied are filled with the power of that which is Sacred. The state of Sacred, by its own decree is the state of most pure mind. Although often silent, and sometimes soft in its action this path is for us never without power. Consider this truth, is not the Creator realized within all things? What thing exists that is not by the decree of the Creator?
Ne Gashedenza. It is good to maintain within your society a force that councils a skilled power for the self- defense of the people. This force must always be tempered by exercising the guidance of your spiritual understandings of the higher reason of the mind. All actions taken must be of righteous intent. All things that can be called righteous are the results of the balance between the physical and the spiritual, there are no exceptions.
Therefore, when differences arise, as they will, the councils between your peoples must always be held with both the spiritual leaders and the military leaders present. The views of these councils should then be presented to the Sachems, who are your spiritual elders. They in turn must answer always to the Council of Grandmothers. The council of Grandmothers represents the social order of the people. In your societies all relationships are born from the foundation of the family fire - Mother, Father, and their children. Brother, sister, nephew, niece.
This structure is of the Mothers own design and purpose, and will reach out through your society like the roots of a great tree, seeking its strength and nourishment from the Divine Mother herself. Without the purposeful maintaining of the family fire your social order would quickly fall into disorder and decay. You are all extensions of this family fire, which is your strength when the times of change and calamity overcome you. Standing together you have the strength to withstand the storms that will come. Standing separately, without order you fall easy prey to the forces darkness, which are born of fear out of chaos, and as a people you would vanish like leaves before the wind.
We are all, in the end, brothers and sisters of one family, the children of one Mother and one Father. The balance of the male and female must be maintained within your relationships. It represents the balance of the Mother and the Father in the very process of creation, from which all of life is manifest. In this way the Great Peace shall be established.
In this way it shall be a living dream of the people that shall be handed down from Mother to Daughter, and as the bearers of life they shall pass it from Father to Son. And this peace which is born of the heart, and the people who live through this heart shall be forever. For they shall be in rhythm with the heartbeat of the Divine Mother, which never ceases. He told them that they had done well living in accordance with the Great Peace. He told them they would know much abundance, and they would be happy for a while. However, he also told them they would have great trials in the days ahead of them.
He told them that a time was coming in which many of them could start to forget the principles of the Great Peace. A time was coming when the way of the serpent would rise from seeming sleep upon the land. If the ways of the heart were forgotten and the people took to their old ways of warring amongst each other dark days would come as a result. He foretold that if the Serpents were awakened there would be a time of great trials and much suffering. In the darkness of this time they would come to mistrust themselves as well as their leaders and they would doubt even the very principles of the Great Peace.
Daganaweda told the people that he saw that during this time of the return of the serpent energy, that a White Serpent would come into their land. For a time, it would intermingle with the people. It would be accepted by the Indian people, and they would come to regard the Serpent as a friend and a brother. This Serpent would grow and be nurtured by the people and over time the Serpent would become powerful. As it grew although outwardly friendly towards the people the ultimately become obsessed with having more and more power.
This Serpent would have an insatiable appetite for power. It would seem that there would never be enough to satisfy this Serpent. It would reach out a giant claw and attempt to choke the life force from the People. If they did not succumb to the twisted will of the Serpent, which would grow more and more delirious with its quest for knowledge and power. The Serpent would grow mad and think that it could own the very Earth itself.
In its desire for more and more power, it would eventually attempt to drive off and even kill the very people who had befriended it. It would threaten to completely destroy them, and any other People that dared defy its will. Many would become addicted to the seemingly easy way of life that the Serpent would offer them, and through gradual corruption of the spirit they would fall under the power of this Serpent. The Serpents power lay in its ability manipulate the people by creating fear, and self-doubt in the true spiritual path.
The Serpent was a master of illusion, and could even fool itself for a time into believing that it was liken the people itself. That it was no longer a Serpent. But while it talked of love, and a new way of life for the people it would be devouring the Earth itself. Even the beast of the forest and the great seas would flee in terror when it showed it face amongst them.
However, there would be People who would continue to live in the way of the Great Peace. They would see the Serpent for what it was. They would not give into fear and illusion. Although small in number, they would somehow survive, the times that were coming. Many, however, would choose to leave rather then endure the years of struggle and hardship that would come to this land. It would be very strange times. A great struggle would develop between these few people who still held to the ways of the Great Peace and the Serpent.
There would be much contest and long suffering by the People, as the ways of the Serpent would have slowly corrupted many of them from the inside, separating them from the power of the great spirit that moved within them. The ways of the Serpent would separate them from each other, mother from child, child from grandparent. The family fire would be almost nonexistent in times that were coming. If the family fire was ever allowed to be broken, if brother took to warfare against his brother it would it would only be a matter of time before all was lost. A great despair would fall upon the People and the land. Since the People were the land it would be that in time event the land would start to die.
With the Great Peace broken the once proud People of the Long House would become weary from the endless torment of the soul that would never seem to end. Daganaweda told them if the peace was broken they would become as few in number as leaves on the trees in winter, that some tribes would have vanished from the face of the Earth entirely they would be as dust in the wind. As the seasons continued, many would forget their ways entirely, and the Great Peace would appear as a myth of a distant long ago past. He told them as a result they would endure spiritual pain that would seem to be endless. He saw the people falling upon the ground like turtles on their backs. They would be as helpless as children fighting this Serpent. Then one day a Great Red Serpent would appear there would develop a great battle between the two. So great that the whole Earth would appear to shake. This shaking would occur three times.
The battle between the Serpents would be unending, and after awhile the White Serpent would appear at one point to accept defeat by the Red Serpent, but only momentarily. This was only because the White Serpent was stunned by the sudden blow of the Red Serpent's strange power and rage. For the Red Serpent would have grown quickly and mysteriously to great size. And this Serpent would have strange powers that would be unfamiliar to the White Serpent as if they came from another world.
With the coming of this Red Serpent even greater confusion, would befall the land. The White Serpent would let loose of its hold on the People in an attempt to fight off the assaults of the intruder. All of its attention would go to battling the Red Serpent. Some of the people would manage to run away to the hilly country towards the West, which would be away from the Serpent's grasp. Hidden in the hilly country their wounds would begin to slowly heal and they would seek once more a peaceful way of life and begin to return to divine order seeking harmony with the ways of the Mother Earth.
Some would begin to remember once again the old ways. They would begin to re-establish the principles of the Great Peace among themselves. People would come to them from all over, not just the Haudensaunee, but people from all nations from the four directions, from the beginning times. They would be called to gather together in the hilly country to heal from the war and terror. Here they would renew their original bonds of friendship and brotherhood, as it was during the Great Peace.
They would, at first be, small in numbers and would choose to remain neutral in the fighting that would ensue between the Great Serpents. They would slowly begin to awaken, as if from a bad dream or sickness. They would come to own themselves once again and through their renewed connection to the spiritual powers of the Earth they would grow stronger in their understanding of their dormant wisdom.
The People living close to the Earth would learn to become strong in their hearts. In this way they would become free from the fear that would be like a great plague upon the land. From this place in the hilly country their lookouts would be watching the Serpent's battle in the distance. The Serpents warring would never seem to end, for the way of Serpent energy to renew itself is through killing and war. The Serpent would create fear in the hearts of the People who would become lost and be unable to connect to the source of their creation. From their fear these Serpents would draw their energy. For the Serpent would have no energy of its own. From their place in the hilly country, the People would hear and see the battle raging between the Serpents which would become so violent at times that the mountains would begin to crack open, Fire would spew from their mouths, for the Serpents would learn to use the lightning energy and they would even grow wings as they carried their wars even unto the heavens. It is then that the rivers would begin to boil, and the fishes would turn up on their bellies. There would be great flooding and great drought. Some of the great rivers would flow upstream in an unnatural manner. The weather would become erratic and nothing would grow as it once did. It would seem as if the Earth itself was lost in confusion and sickness. In those areas where the greatest of fighting took place there would be no leaves left upon the trees, and the grasses would burn up as great fires fell from the sky. Strange bugs would appear in the sky and coming from the ground. They would be like beetles, and they would crawl along the ground and attack both the Serpents and the people. Everywhere there would be death. The land would appear as if the whole of the Earth was dying. Everywhere the Earth and all her life forms would become sickened from the stench of death and destruction.
Then there would come across the land a great heat. It would swell from the Mothers belly and move across the land in great clouds of fire. It would appear as if the bowels of the Earth were opening and spilling forth this great fire everywhere. This heat would last a long time, so long that it would cause the stench from all the death to become intolerable. Even the Serpents who would continue to battle for they loved war would themselves begin to sicken from the stench of death. Then one day a warrior who was standing lookout from the hilly country watching the Serpents battle, would see from his lookout post the Red Serpent reach around the neck of the White Serpent and pull from him a feather as he tore open his throat. This feather would be carried by the wind to the South. Here it would find its way to a Great Black Serpent that would have appeared from some mysterious place where it had been hiding in the darkness. It would have been awakened from all the commotion and warring in the North. The Black Serpent, upon studying the white feather, would be astounded, as the hair would begin to dance upon the currents of the wind as it turned itself into a white bird and then into a white-skinned woman.
This white-skinned woman would have power and wisdom. She would be skilled in the ancient arts of the People, and she would speak to him in their ancient language, which he understood. She would tell him stories as she danced upon the wind shape shift before his eyes. She would tell the Black Serpent stories of great sickness that was upon the land and in the hearts of the People. Stories of death and horror going on in the North. These things he would know somehow to be true, but again he would have been asleep deep within the belly of the Earth for a long time.
He would ask her to tell him the stories once again, for it would be unbelievable to him that such things could be occurring upon this Earth. Then, when the woman was through with her tales, he would ever so gently place her down upon a rock, with great love and respect for her purity of spirit and her personal powers. He would then turn to the North and let loose a great roar, filling the winds with his furry over the horrors he had heard. The winds and the sound of the great roar they carried would be felt over the whole of the Earth. It would rise up from the belly of the Earth, and even be heard in the heavens. With great speed the Black Serpent would then head towards the North to find the other two. The two Serpents would already be weary from the firestorms, and the stench of death. They would be sickened to the point that they would weak and exhausted. They would rise in horror and shock at the sudden appearance of the Black Serpent, which would seem to come from nowhere. They would recognize him but not believe his appearance possible.
The Black Serpent would attack the Red and White Serpents with a great vengeance, and he would defeat the Red Serpent entirely. Then he would stand upon the chest of the White Serpent, letting out a horrible and boastful roar as he tore him into two pieces. The battle would be short; it would not be too long before the Black Serpent would begin to look for yet another Serpent to conquer, filled with the energy of war and killing. He would have taken on the evil of both serpents and become a power of darkness that defies description. It would appear that he intended to devour the whole of the Earth, even the heavens in his furry.
The Great Black Serpent would look in all the directions for a formidable foe. When he turned towards the direction of the hilly country, he would see the People standing noble and erect, with their arms open, having fearless hearts, facing the winds of change. He would know that this was not where his fight was to be found; he would turn and look elsewhere. For a time the whole of the world would be in darkness. Great clouds will have formed from the battle and the spewing of smoke from the Mother belly. It would be as if time itself had stopped.
The Black Serpent would then turn towards a sound coming from the heavens and, for a moment become blinded by a great and mysterious light that would appear from the heavens. This light would be many, many times brighter than the Sun. This Great Light would be traveling east, coming from the West, over the great waters. It would appear in the skies for the passing of twelve of our days. When it arrives there will be no night and day. This would terrify the Black Serpent to such a degree that he would slither into the ocean, trying to hide himself from the great light. He would sink beneath the Great Waters and never be seen by the People again.
A part of the White Serpent would have survived. Although weak, he too, would see this light and make a feeble attempt to gather himself up and go towards that light. Suffering greatly from the wound received in battle with the Black Serpent, this portion of the White Serpent would find its way to the hilly country. Here it would be taken in and helped by the People, as it is their way to nurture the weak. This portion of the White Serpent would take on the ways of the People, but for a long time after, he would shake with fear whenever he again witnessed a great light.
Then, as if rising from the ground itself, the form of the Red Serpent would appear. He would also witness the strange Light shining like a great star, and he would tremble with fear. He would also try to crawl towards the North Country, but would die along the journey from his wounds. Leaving behind him a bloody trail that would split the Earth into a shaky canyon. This trail would split this land of the Turtle in two, and then into four pieces.
To the south where the Black serpent had vanished the Ice would begin melt, great pieces of ice would begin to fall from the sky, putting much of the land to the East into the deep sleep of winter. There it would be purified from the death that it had known. In these times we will witness other strange occurrences with the weather. The seas would become violent and rise covering much of the old shoreline. New cliffs would rise from the sea, as well as new lands.
The trail left behind by the Red Serpent would be washed clean as it filled with the waters from the North. New mountains would form along where the body of the Red Serpent lay still and cold in its death. This would form a new sea in the North Country, which would forever remind the people of the dark times through which they had passed.
The mysterious light would be as a mist and would engulf the entire Earth much like a giant cloud. We will be lifted from the wheel of time, and we will be unable to determine its passing. Death will cease to be. Our dream will blend and become many realities, all different yet all truth. As we experience the unravelling of the dream. We will witness the force that which allows our perceptions to manifest and express as our reality. For within this great light the nature of all things is dreamlike.
From the center of the mysterious light the Great Star would begin to emerge. The light from this star would swell and eventually become brighter even than our Sun. It would appear to take form an eight-pointed star as it came closer and closer to the Earth. It would become so large that it would block out much of the heavens from our view. Its presence would cause many things to be affected and we will witness much phenomena as the new world is born before our eyes.
There will appear in the heavens a great bow having the twelve colors of creation. From this bow would be heard the sound of all people, all who ever were and all that would be. Then there would be a shifting of the sound like a great harmonic. It would then appear as if they were all one voice, singing the sound of the new Creation. The sound of what had been heard so long ago when this world was itself created. When we first walked upon the Earth and wondered at the newness of her.
When the Star emerges from within the light many of the People who will have been hiding will come forth from their seclusion. Many will come from their refuge in the hills and mountains. They will be strange as if they were walking for the first time. There will be many new colors and species of life that will come forth from the great void. For they will have lifted their voices to join with the voices of the heavens.
Man and beast all manner of life form upon this plane will recognize and acknowledge their part in the spider web of life. They shall know their part in the dream for life will have become in a moment the expression of each of their visions of how things would be. There shall come a day like no other for all the creatures of the Earth in that moment of forever shall be as one, and man and beast shall communicate as it was long ago, for fear shall be a no thing. A sound shall come forth from the great star.
The people who will be coming forth in little bands from all throughout the hilly country will witness the appearance of Daganaweda, as if walking right out of this Great Star, returning to the People. The Peacemaker would be joined by many others as the dream of horror would come to a close. With his return there would be much rejoicing, and the people would feel like they had awakened from a dream. They would once again walk the way of the Great Peace, Kia ëneri Kowa, and form a new and great civilization that will continue into forever, creating a new world from the essence of the old. In this world even the eldest of us would be as children, yet possess the wisdom of experience of the ages that had come before.
We will join once again with our brothers from the stars. No one shall be denied, and no one shall be untouched in this time. No dream shall not come to pass, and no thought shall go unrealized. To speak more of it would serve no purpose for it will be beyond our comprehension what will occur. The way of the Kia neri Kowa shall help create the new world you seek. That which is created shall be born of the heart.
The time for the need for darkness will have passed. You will once again be as you were in the beginning children of the Sun and you will feel as if you have awakened from a dream. Your need for death and dying shall no longer serve the purpose it did before, for you will be walking upon the pathway of your foreverness. Man and spirit shall be as one in the Great Peace.
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