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Hopi Prophecy Rock
"We Are All Related" Dr. Allen Ross
There is a sandstone cliff, near second mesa on the Hopi Reservation
in Arizona. On this cliff is etched a picture of the past, persent,
and the future. This site is more commonly known as Hopi Prophecy
Rock. The petroglyph depicts the Hopi as emerging from the underground
to the surface of the earth. The actual place for this event is
a religious site located in the Grand Canyon. The Sioux also say
they emerged from underground at a place in the Black Hills known
today as Wind Cave.
The story depicted on the prophecy rock continues on by showing
how the leading clans of the Hopi migrated in the 4 directions,
then turned left---forming a Swastika symbol. The clans that followed
migrated in the 4 directions--then turned left---forming reverse
Swastika symbol. After journeying in the 4 directions, they were
to return to the center. When they reach the center it will be
the end of the fourth age.
The Sioux, like the Hopi, traveled in the 4 directions after emerging
from the underground. The Sioux also believe that man has evolved
through 4 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".
The Hopi Prophecy Rock clearly depicts three "two-heart" individuals.
A two-hearted person is one who thinks with his head rather than
his heart. This is in reference to the left-brain function of
analytical thinking. A person who think with his heart usese the
right-brain function of intuitive thinking. Currently modern man
is out of balance because we live in a left brained dominated
society. We place more emphasis on left-brain modes of thinking
vs. right-brain modes of thought.
The Hopi Prophecy Rock shows a junction where the two-heated people
have a choice of choosing to start thinking with their hearts
or continue to think with their heads only. If they chose the
latter, it will lead to self-destruction; if they chose to think
with their hearts they would gradually return to the natural way
and their own survival.
Hopi Stone Tablets
There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle
of the plant. And now we are in the cycle of the animals coming
to the end of that and beginning the cycle of the human being.
When we get into the cycle of the human being the highest and
greatest powers that we have will be released to us. They will
be released from that light or soul that we carry to the mind.
But right now we're coming to the end of the animal cycle and
we have investigated ourselves and learned what it is to be like
an animal on this earth. At the beginning of this cycle of time,
long ago, the Great Spirit came down and He made an appearance
and He gathered the peoples of this earth together they say on
an island which is now beneath the water and He said to the human
beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time
I'm going to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give
you some teachings and you will call these the Original Teachings
and when you come back together with each other you will share
these so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a great
civilization will come about." And he said, "During the cycle
of time I'm going to give each of you TWO STONE TABLETS. When
I give you those stone tablets, don't 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 almost the earth itself will
die."
And so he gave each of us a responsibility and we call that
the Guardianship. To the Indian people, the red people, he gave
the Guardianship of the earth. We were to learn during this cycle
of time the teachings of the earth, the plants that grow from
the earth, the foods that you can eat, and the herbs that are
healing so that when we came back together with the other brothers
and sisters we could share this knowledge with them. Something
good was to happen on the earth. To the South, he gave the yellow
race of people the Guardianship of the wind. They were to learn
about the sky and breathing and how to take that within ourselves
for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with is at
this time. To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship
of the water. They were to learn the teachings of the water which
is the chief of the elements, being the most humble and the most
powerful. To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship
of the fire. If you look at the center of many of the things they
do you will find the fire. They say a light bulb is the white
man's fire. If you look at the center of a car you will find a
spark. If you look at the center of the airplane and the train
you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and also moves. This
is why it was the white brothers and sisters who began to move
upon the face of the earth and reunite us as a human family. And
so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four
races two stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation
in Arizona at Four Corners Area on 3rd Mesa. I talked to people
from the black race and their stone tablets are at the foot of
Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe.
I once had the honor of presenting a sacred pipe at the Kukuyu
Tribe carved from the red pipe stone of Mount Kenya. I was at
an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years ago. A medicine man
from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in the middle of
the gathering. It had the four colors from the four directions;
He asked the people, "Where is this from?" They said, "Probably
Montana, or South Dakota, maybe Seskatchewan." He said, "This
is from Kenya." It was beaded just like ours, with the same color.
The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the
Tibetans, in Tibet. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation
to the other side of the world, you would come out 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. I went to school with some people from
Switzerland at the University of Washington and they shared this
with me. Each of these four peoples happen to be people that live
in the mountains. In 1976 America had its bicentennial celebrating
200 years of freedom. Some of the Native people thought this was
significant and they carried a sacred pipe bundle from the West
Coast to the East Coast of this land. They said that the roads
of this land should either go North-South or East-West. If they
went North-South we would come together as brothers and sisters,
but if they went East-West there would be destruction and almost
the earth itself would have a hard time. So you all know the roads
went East-West. They said then things would be lost from the East
to the West and from the South to the North and that they would
come back again from the West to the East and from the North to
the South. So nine years ago in 1976 from the West to East Coast
of this land, from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. people carried
a sacred pipe bundle by hand, on foot. My aunt had dreamt 15 years
ago that people that didn't like them would throw rocks and bottles
at that pipe bundle as they carried it across the land. And sure
enough that came about. But, as was in my aunt's dream, the rocks
only came so close and then they dropped, and nothing touched
it.
They said a spiritual fire would be lit in the North and would
come down the Northwest Coast of this land. When it gets to the
Puget Sound, it would go inland. I think this, nine years later,
is the gathering in the North, myself. That's why I came here.
This is it. We have the capacity to start the spiritual fire now,
here. The old people long ago saw it and foretold it and I'm going
to come to that. So we went through this cycle of time and each
of the four races went to their directions and they learned their
teachings. 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. So 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 armour, like turtles across the land. So this was them. So
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. And so 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. So tribes
began to send people to the mounds to have missions to 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.
If you ever go out to Ohio or the Mississippi Valley, they're
tourist attractions now. There was 100,000 cities of Native people
and they were wondering how they could survive. They began to
try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time
was going to come. They began to send people to have visions to
see how we could survive this time. People came on the east coast
and they went across this land to the east 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, when the roads went clear from east to west, and when
the other races and colors of the Earth had walked clear across
this land, if by that time we had not come together as a human
family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth with his hand and
shake it. And so if you read the treaty negotiations from Red
Jacket of the Six Nations on the east coast of this land clear
to Chief Joseph and Chief Seattle on the west coast of this land,
they all said the same thing. 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, you all know there was separation, there was
segregation. They separated the races: they separated the Indians,
and they separated the blacks. So when they got to the west coast
of this land the elders that were made aware of these prophecies
said they would then begin to build a black ribbon. And on this
black ribbon there would move a bug. And when you begin to 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. And by the end of this shaking this
bug will be in the air around the world. Behind it would be a
trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth
would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause
many diseases that would get more and more complicated. So the
bug moving on the land, of course it's easy to see now. In 1908
the Model-T Ford was mass produced for the first time. So the
elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about to come about
- that's the First World War. In the First World War the airplane
came into wide usage for the first time. That was that bug moving
into the sky. And so they knew something very important would
happen. 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 Indian people 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. This became a concern because people
didn't want the reservations to become more and more separate.
They didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did
not write back and the Native people were left out of the League
of Nations, so that circle was incomplete. 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 is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle
and shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth. So
they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little
bit. There would be a cobweb built 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. It would come with the
sun. But the sun itself would rise one day not in the east but
in the west. So the elders said 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,
and now the Great Spirit will grab the earth again in His hand
and shake it and this shaking will be worse than the first. So
the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika,
and the rising sun in the east was the rising sun of Japan. 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 worse 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. I saw on television not too long
ago that they were talking about the atomic bomb, the gourd of
ashes. They said it was the best-kept secret in the history of
the United States. The elders wanted to speak about it in 1920.
They 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 the Third Shaking
of the Earth, the Third World War. I'll get to that in a few minutes.
So they 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. And because the
peace attempt on the west coast had failed, 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. So the elders began to see 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.
They said that in the 1920's they had written and they had not
been responded to, so they said this time we better go to the
front door of the House of Mica because things might get a lot
worse. So elders representing a number of tribes I believe 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, Dagonnorida.
And this Law of Peace is still recited, it takes four days between
sunrise and noon. Each year an Indian, by memory, must recite
it about this time of year. Four days later they came back and
I believe the nations of the earth heard that the Indians had
come to the door. And they voted to let the Indians 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. And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the Native
people. So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth,
and the United Nations would not bring peace on earth but there
would be continuing and deepening confusion. And that the little
wars would get worse. So they retreated to the Six Nations Reserve
and they talked about this and they said the time is really getting
close now, 1949. 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 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.
One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas
Benyaka.
He is a Hopi man. I believe he is still living. He was authorized
to speak in English about what was on the stone tablets and he
has dedicated his lifetime to doing this. And they began to tell
us at these gatherings, they said "In your lifetime you're going
to see things happen." It was strange when they said it in the
1950's and 1960's but now it seems very clear. But then it was
unusual. They said, "You're going to see a time in your life when
men are going to become women. The Great Spirit is going to make
a man on the earth. He made him a man but this man is going to
say, "I know more than the Great Spirit. I'm going to change myself
to be a woman:" And they will even nurse children. The Great Spirit
is going to make the woman on the earth. She's going to say, "I
know more than the Great Spirit. I want to be a man. And she will
be physically a man." They 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 said, "They re going to cut this blueprint." They call that
now, genetic splicing. And they said, "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 maybe
the grandchildren and greatgrandchildren are going to suffer."
They are making new animals. The elders talked about this. They
said, "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." They said
(and I know 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 it's 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 it's 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 it's dark
and then pretty soon it's getting light before you know it. We're
at that time now. The Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969. When
that spaceship landed they sent back the message, "The Eagle has
landed." Traditionally, Native people from clear up in the Inuit
region, they have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to
the Quechuas in South America. They shared with us that they have
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
us now. We may do anything we wish. In 1776 when the United States
Government printed the dollar, in one claw [of the eagle], if
you've ever noticed, there is an olive branch in this claw. They
said that represented peace. The Indian elders shared with me
in South Dakota that to them that represents the enslavement of
black people. 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. I'll get back to what that means in
a minute. In the other claw is 13 arrows. The founding fathers
of the United States said that represents the 13 States. But the
elders say that represents the enslavement of the Native people.
When the Eagle landed on the moon, they decided to print a special
silver dollar to commemorate that. I don't know how many of you
noticed it. The original design showed the spaceship landing on
the moon but at the last minute it was changed to an actual eagle.
And in the eagle's claws is the olive branch, but the arrows are
gone. The elders said, "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
an effect on Native people, a good effect. There's a whole new
set of prophecies from the Iroquois people about that and I won't
have time to go into that this morning. But we're in that time
now. We're between the first light of a new day and the sunrise.
The sunrise is about to come and when it comes up everyone is
going to see it. But you know how it is in the village there's
a few people that get up early, and there are some that sleep
until noon. I'm probably one of those that sleeps until noon.
They said when that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin
to come back to us. 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. The legislation was introduced
in 1969, less than seven days after the Eagle landed on the moon.
Eventually it was passed in November of 1978, signed by President
Carter. These are the physical manifestations of the spiritual
prophecies that we have. So he 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 go. Because there's going to come a time when the
earth is going to be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has
been shaking the earth two times: the First and Second World Wars
to remind us that we are a human family, 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. Tonight
they were talking on the news about the sign for the Third Shaking
of the Earth. I heard it while sitting in the airport after I
missed my plane. They said they're going to build what the elders
called the "house in the sky". In the 1950's they talked about
this: 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. Many of you of Native background
may have heard "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. As it says in the
Baha'i Writings, 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. >P> 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. And they 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.
They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those villages
of stone when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn
to steam also because they never woke up and left the village.
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