Hopi Prophecy

In the post yesterday I wrote of an impactful section at the first of the new book, SocialChange 2.0, referring to the First Earth Run in 1986. I don't really like to just copy sections of other writers work but there is a page or so here that bears quoting. I don't have a Native American background in my heritage but my kids do and there is much beauty within that tradition. Much more so than we were led to believe via our national history of relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

" The lighting and launch of the torch of peace on its journey around the world were to take place at the United Nations in New York. The torch was to be lit from a fire created at a sunrise ceremony on the grounds of the United Nations by two Native American elders, Chief Shenandoah of the Iroquois Nation and Grandmother Caroline of the Hopi Nation. ...The Hopi are the "keepers of the dream." They serve as stewards of the most profound belief and hope on the planet; that human beings can live in harmony with one another and the Earth.

The Hopi people are also keepers of the Hopi Prophecies, reverently handed down from one generation to the next for more than a thousand years. The most important of these prophecies states that when humanity is on the brink of self destruction, the Hopi must deliver a message at the great hall of mica. If this message is received, the world will begin the "great turning" toward a thousand years of peace. If it is not received, the world will continue its direction and enter into a thousand years of darkness and war. The prophecy states that the Hopi will have four attempts to deliver the message.

The Hopi elders determined that the time described in the prophecy had come, and the great hall of mica was the glass United Nations building on Manhattan's East Side. For the sake of the world, they diligently sought an audience with the leadership of the United Nations. Their previous requests for an audience with the United Nations had been turned down three times, so this was their final chance. The native cultures were closely tracking....It was September 16 1986, the opening day of the U.N. General Assembly---the international day of peace in the international year of peace...Chief Shenandoah of the Iroquois Nation rubbed two sticks together, in the ancient way...into a blazing fire....Grandmother Caroline offer(ed) the prophecy..."Humanity" she said in her soft voice, "is at a crossroads. To continue on this planet, we are being called to achieve a higher level of global community, where we can experience that which unites us." ...Her profound message of hope inspired everyone in attendance. Over the next eighty-six days, it would be communicated in one form or another to the twenty-five million people and forty-five heads of state in sixty-two countries who would directly participate in the passage of the fire..." So it was spoken by these primitive animistic indigenous peoples of our first nations. Who, I ask, are the true primitives? Peace! RV