I am very glad to have this
time to send a message to you. We are celebrating a time in our history which is
both filled with joy and sadness. I am very glad that our Hindu brothers have
given us this opportunity to share these feelings with you because we know many
of you are having the same troubles.
We Hopi believe that the human race has passed through three different worlds
and life ways since the beginning. At the end of each prior world, human life
has been purified or punished by the Great Spirit "Massauu" due mainly to
corruption, greed and turning away from the Great Spirit's teachings. The last
great destruction was the flood which destroyed all but a few faithful ones who
asked and received a permission from the Great Spirit to live with Him in this
new land. The Great Spirit said, "It is up to you, if you are willing to live my
poor, humble and simple life way. It is hard but if you agree to live according
to my teachings and instructions, if you never lose faith in the life I shall
give you, you may come and live with me." The Hopi and all who were saved from
the great flood made a sacred covenant with the Great Spirit at that time. We
Hopi made an oath that we will never turn away from Him. For us the Creators
laws never change or break down.
To the Hopi the Great Spirit is all powerful. He appeared to the first people
as a man and talked with them in the beginning of this creation world. He taught
us how to live, to worship, where to go and what food to carry, gave us seeds to
plant and harvest. He gave us a set of sacred stone tablets into which He
breathed all teachings in order to safeguard his land and life. In these stone
tablets were made, instructions and prophecies and warnings. This was done with
the help of a Spider woman and Her two grandsons. They were wise and powerful
helpers of the Great Spirit.
Before the Great Spirit went into hiding, He and Spider woman put before the
leaders of the different groups of people many colors and sized of corn for them
to choose their food in this world. The Hopi was the last to pick and then
choose their food in this world. The Hopi then choose the smallest ear of corn.
Then Massauu said, "You have shown me you are wise and humble for this reason
you will be called Hopi (people of peace) and I will place in your authority all
land and life to guard, protect and hold trust for Me until I return to you in
later days for I am the First and the Last."
This why when a Hopi is ordained into the higher religious order, the earth
and all living things are placed upon his hands. He becomes a parent to all life
on earth. He is entitled to advise and correct his children in whatever peaceful
way he can. So we can never give up knowing that our message of peace will reach
our children. Then it is together with the other spiritual leaders the destiny
of our future children is placed. We are instructed to hold this world in
balance within the land and the many universes with special prayers and ritual
which continue to this day.
It was to the Spider woman's two grandsons the sacred stone tablets were
given. These two brothers were then instructed to carry them to a place the
Great Spirit had instructed them. The older brother was to go immediately to the
east, to the rising sun and upon reaching his destination was instructed to
immediately start to look for his younger brother who shall remain in the land
of the Great Spirit. The Older brothers mission when he returned was to help his
younger brother (Hopi) bring obout peace, brotherhood and everlasting life on
his return.
Hopi, the younger brother, was instructed to cover all land and mark it well
with footprints and sacred markings to claim this land for the Creator and peace
on earth. We established our ceremonials and sacred shrines to hold this world
in balance in accordance with our first promise to the Creator. This is how our
migration story goes, until we meet the Creator at Old Oribe (place that
solidifies) over 1000 years ago. It was at that meeting when he gave to us these
prophecies to give to you now at this closing of the Fourth World of destruction
and the beginning of the Fifth World of peace. He gave us many prophecies to
pass on to you and all have come to pass. This is how we know the timing is now
to reveal the last warnings and instructions to mankind.
We were told to settle permanently here in Hopi land where we met the Great
Spirit and wait for Older Brother who went east to return to us. When he returns
to this land he will place his stone tablets side by side to show all the world
that they are our true brothers. When the road in the sky has been fulfilled and
when the inventing of something, in Hopi means, gourd of ashes, a gourd that
when drops upon the earth will boil everything within a large space and nothing
will grow for a very long time. When the leaders turned to evil ways instead of
the Great Spirit we were told there would be many ways this life may be
destroyed. If human kind does not heed our prophecy and return to ones original
spiritual instructions. We were told of three helpers who were commissioned by
the Great Spirit to help Hopi bring about the peaceful life on earth would
appear to help us and we should not change our homes, our ceremonials, our hair,
because the true helpers might not recognize us as the true Hopi. So we have
been waiting all these years.
It is known that our True White Brother, when he comes, will be all powerful
and will wear a red cap or red cloak. He will be large in population, belong to
no religion but his very own. He will bring with him the sacred stone tablets.
With him there will be two great ones both very wise and powerful. One will have
a symbol or sign of swastika which represents purity and is Female, a producer
of life. The third one or the second one of the two helpers to our True White
Brother will have a sign of a symbol of the sun. He, too, will be many people
and very wise and powerful. We have in our sacred Kachina ceremonies a gourd
rattle which is still in use today with these symbols of these powerful helpers
of our True Brother.
It is also prophesied that if these three fail to fulfill their mission then
the one from the west will come like a big storm. He will be many, in numbers
and unmerciful. When he comes he will cover the land like the red ants and over
take this land in one day. If the three helpers chosen by the Creator fulfill
their sacred mission and even if there are only one, two or three of the true
Hopi remaining holding fast to the last ancient teaching and instructions the
Great Spirit, Massauu will appear before all and our would will be saved. The
three will lay our a new life plan which leads to everlasting life and peace.
The earth will become new as it was from the beginning. Flowers will bloom
again, wild games will return to barren lands and there will be abundance of
food for all. Those who are saved will share everything equally and they all
will recognize Great Spirit and speak one language.
We are now faced with great problems, not only here but throughout the land.
Ancient cultures are being annihilated. Our people's lands are being taken from
them, leaving them no place to call their own. Why is this happening? It is
happening because many have given up or manipulated their original spiritual
teachings. The way of life which the Great Spirit has given to all its people of
the world, whatever your original instructions are not being honored. It is
because of this great sickness-called greed, which infects every land and
country that simple people are losing what they have kept for thousands of
years.
Now we are at the very end of our trail. Many people no longer recognize the
true path of the Great Spirit. They have, in fact, no respect for the Great
Spirit or for our precious Mother Earth, who gives us all life.
We are instructed in our ancient prophecy that this would occur. We were told
that someone would try to go up to the moon: that they would bring something
back from the moon; and that after that, nature would show signs of losing its
balance. Now we see that coming about. All over the world there are now many
signs that nature is no longer in balance. Floods, drought, earthquakes, and
great storms are occurring and causing much suffering. We do not want this to
occur in our country and we pray to the Great Spirit to save us from such
things. But there are now signs that this very same thing might happen very soon
on our own land.
Now we must look upon each other as brothers and sisters. There is no more
time for divisions between people. Today I call upon all of us, from right here
at home, Hotevilla, where we to are guilty of gossiping and causing divisions
even among our own families; out to the entire world where thievery, war and
lying goes on every day. These divisions will not be our salvation. Wars only
bring more wars never peace. Only by joining together in a Spiritual Peace with
love in our hearts for one another, love in our hearts for the Great Spirit and
Mother Earth, shall we be saved from the terrible Purification Day which is just
ahead.
There are many of you in this world who are honest people. We know you
spiritually for we are the "Men's Society Grandfathers" who have been charged to
pray for you and all life on earth never forgetting anything or any one in our
ceremonials. Our prayer is to have a good happy life, plenty of soft gentle rain
for abundant crops. We pray for balance on earth to live in peace and leave a
beautiful world to the children yet to come. We know you have good hearts but
good hearts are not enough to help us out with these great problems. In the past
some of you have tried to help us Hopis, and we will always be thankful for you
efforts. But now we need your help in the worst way. We want the people of the
world to know the truth of our situation.
This land which people call the Land of the Freedom celebrates many days
reminding people of the world of these things. Yet in well over 200 years the
original Americans have not seen a free day. We are suffering the final insult.
Our people are now losing the one thing which give life and meaning of life--our
ceremonial land, which is being taken away from us. Hotevilla is the last holy
consecrated, undisturbed traditional Native American sacred shrine to the
Creator. As the prophecy says, this sacred shrine must keep its spiritual
pathways open. This village is the spiritual vortex for the Hopi to guide the
many awakening Native Americans and other true hearts home to their own unique
culture. Hotevilla was established by the last remaining spiritual elders to
maintain peace and balance on this continent from the tip of South America up to
Alaska. Many of our friends say Hotevilla is a sacred shrine, a national and
world treasure and must be preserved. We need your help.
Where is the freedom which you all fight for and sacrifice your children for?
Is it only the Indian people who have lost or are all Americans losing the very
thing which you original came here to find? We don't share the freedom of the
press because what gets into the papers is what the government wants people to
believe, not what is really happening. We have no freedom of speech, because we
are persecuted by our own people for speaking our beliefs.
We are at the final stages now and there is a last force that is about to
take away our remaining homeland. We are still being denied many things
including the rite to be Hopis and to make our living in accordance with our
religious teachings. The Hopi leaders have warned leaders in the White House and
the leaders in the Glass House but they do not listen. So as our prophecy says
then it must be up to the people with good pure hearts that will not be afraid
to help us to fulfill our destiny in peace for this world. We now stand at a
cross road whether to lead ourselves in everlasting life or total destruction.
We believe that human beings spiritual power through prayer is so strong it
decides life on earth.
So many people have come to Hopiland to meet with us. Some of you we have met
on your lands. Many times people have asked how they can help us. Now I hope and
pray that your help will come. If you have a way to spread the truth, through
the newspapers, radio, books, thought meeting with powerful people, tell the
truth! Tell them what you know to be true. Tell them what you have seen here;
what you have heard us say; what you have seen with your own eyes. In this way,
if we do fall, let it be said that we tried, right up to the end, to hold fast
to the path of peace as we were originally instructed to do by the Great Spirit.
Should you really succeed, we will all realize our mistakes of the past and
return to the true path-living in harmony as brothers and sisters, sharing our
mother, the earth with all other living creatures. In this way we could bring
about a new world. A world which would be led by the great Spirit and our mother
will provide plenty and happiness for all.
God bless you, each one of you and know our prayers for peace meet yours as
the sun rises and sets. May the Great Spirit guide you safely into the path of
love, peace freedom and God on this Earth Mother. May the holy ancestors of love
and light keep you safe in your land and homes. Pray for God to give you
something important to do in this great work which lies ahead of us all to bring
peace on earth. We the Hopi still hold the sacred stone tablets and now await
the coming of our True White Brother and others seriously ready to work for the
Creator's peace on earth.
Be well, my children, and think good thoughts of peace and togetherness.
Peace for all life on earth and peace with one another in our homes, families
and countries. We are not so different in the Creator's eyes. The same great
Father Sun shines his love on each of us daily just as Mother Earth prepares the
sustance for our table, do they not? We are one after all.
Chief Dan Evehema, (105) Spiritual leader, Eldest Elder Greeswood /
Roadrunner Clan Society Father / Snake Priest / Kachina Father.
From Hotevilla, Arizona, Hopi Sovereign Nation.
