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Manataka® American Indian Council
Proudly Presents
Our Earth Mother
& Purification Time
Ngungu’taota (greetings, we are
relations), Tutskwa I’qatsi (Land and Life are one).
Introduction
My
Hopi name is Hohongwitutiwa, which was given to me by my Hopi father when he
adopted me as his son. My Hopi father was a mongwi, a priest of the higher
religious order. As his son and kiikelt (young hawk/learner), I was taught
sacred knowledge kept by the Hopi, which according to their original
instructions was to be freely given out at the end of this Fourth World. My
father’s dreams and visions, as well as the signs around us, told him that now
was the time to share this knowledge, as the Hopi were instructed by Masau ages
ago. Together with my father, I openly shared this knowledge for two years,
until his death, and will continue to do so as long as I am able. You may know
my father from the name he used on the internet: Wikimahaw. The knowledge being
passed to our brothers and sisters is sent from our Earth Mother to all of Her
children, a giveaway to prepare us for the times ahead. I am privileged to be
one of those sharing this information with you. I do so with humility and
respect.
In our modern age, ancient truths once known have been mostly lost leading to
the world of today, where our Mother Earth is seen as inert matter, a planet to
be subdued rather than a living entity within whose great life ours are given.
As stated in the first Hopi pootskwani or spirit law (Tutskwa I’qatsi)
Tuuwaqatsi/Earth Mother is our land and our lIfe, the one who provides us with
the spirit of life and everything else we possess. She is our true Rock of Ages,
nurturing us from age-to-age as She moves us ever forward toward the Fifth
World, following each purification time.
Many indigenous people recognize the presence of God within all of creation.
They understand that the Earth embodies that same life and power. The term
“Mother Earth” aptly describes our relationship to Her: She has bore and
nurtured us from our earliest beginnings, carrying us within Her life-giving
womb. We are rooted within Her great life, which no other world can say of us—
She is our Mother; we belong to Her.
I’ hak itamuy it hikwsit maqaaqa pam ita muy him u’yta.
The one who gives us the spirit of life, is the one who owns us: this is our
Earth Mother.
Before we can progress it is necessary we accept that we belong to our creator.
When we recognize this sacred truth, we naturally honor the Earth, holding fast
to Her so nothing can separate us, until She Herself releases us in the Fifth
World.
The Sacred Path of Migration
Perhaps the greatest difference between native religions and others is this: we
believe God’s greatest work is through evolution. God is the divine artist;
evolution is the divine art. Evolution is God’s Kiln, and man is still in the
making. (Wikimahaw)
The “migrations” in the “Sacred Path of Migration” refer to what occurs
thoughout Kokyangwuhti’s nest— our sun system— at the end of purification times,
when each mother world of our system will birth its mystery egg and advance
nearer Tawa, our Sun. The strange weather and other geological disturbances we
have been experiencing are part of our Earth Mother’s birth pangs, as She
readies to birth Her core/mystery egg from deep within Her-- what the Hopi know
as Nohu’na’uyi’yta: the secret of the hidden egg. Following the birth of Her
core, the Earth will fly to the orbit of the Morning Star (Taalawsohu/Fifth
World), and each world of our system will move an orbit closer to Tawa following
the birth of their eggs. Venus and Mercury will enter the sun and be converted
into energy. The life on each world will then evolve to more advanced forms
adapted to live in their new conditions nearer the sun. Those of Tuuwaqatsi’s
children who have striven to live the best lives they can, always holding fast
to Her, will receive their crowning lifeforms, what the Q’ero Incan people call
Homo luminous— man of light, and the Hopi refer to as loma katsinam – good and
beautiful spirits.
As Wikimahaw explained about the Fifth World with our Earth Mother: When we reach the Fifth World we will be complete. Earth Mother will remove the blindfold from our eyes and our minds. She will give us the knowledge to all the mysteries. And because we will be perfect, we will not abuse the universal truths. We will then be the guardians of our younger, unevolved brothers and sisters.
Like
Caterpillars within their cocoons, we are meant to be rooted within the Earth
until our evolutionary development with Her is completed. For our Earth Mother,
our final development will be realized at the end of the purification cycle now
in progress. This cycle is part of a process in nature that evolves life from
age-to-age and World orbit-to- World orbit, also known as the Sacred Path of
Migration. The Sacred Path of Migration specifies the importance of remaining
upon our mother world, from earliest beginnings to our completed forms, in what
the Hopi call the Fifth World and other people call paradise or heaven. Our
Mother has carried us through six past purifications to get where we are now in
the orbit of the Fourth World, about to become the new Fifth World, and our
perfected life. According to our Law of Life, each World-Orbit has its own
sacred bird and color— our Earth Mother’s is the Great Horned Owl, and
turquoise.
Warnings and Preparation
Our Earth Mother also sends us warnings, not to raise fear, but to protect Her
children from lies and deceptions that can be used against them in the coming
days. She prepares us for those who would take Her children from Her by using
seductive lures and fear: lures to deceive us into leaving Her for another place
that will soon be announced to the world, and fear to drive us from Her. The
place in question relates to “time and direction,” a secret kept from us for our
protection by the elders who know of it. The calendar time given us on Earth is
meant for us; it allows us to live, die and advance forward with the Earth
toward the Fifth World, the destiny hoped for each of us. When properly
understood, death is not fearful (as traditional native people understand), but
as natural as breathing, part of the process progressing us with the Earth. In
the following, my Hopi father shares his words about death (speaking to his
granddaughter).
Do
not be afraid to die, my granddaughter. You want to live forever in this form
you have now in this Fourth World, where even children die of hunger, and no
water, and getting very sick with many diseases, and wicked people are going
around hurting and killing? Or do you want to go to the Fifth World, where there
is no more struggling? Maybe you would speak to me: “when will these
things be happening? I don’t want to die a young woman!” I answer you: “be
strong hearted!” Every day, even small children and newborn babies are dying,
and women younger than you are dying, and many young men going to war are dying.
In 110 years all creatures alive today will be gone and replaced by new
creatures. To be born is natural and to die is also natural.
“Time-as-direction” is a knowledge of Time allowing entry into a time structure
not meant for us while we are still unfinished in our evolutionary development,
as we are now. The knowledge preserved by native peoples, and others, warns that
this Time reality will soon be announced to the world, and made to look
wonderful in order to entice us into going there. Those who fall prey to this
deception, abandoning their Earth Mother, must finally prey upon others to
sustain their lives. They need us there for that dark purpose, but we certainly
do not need them! Down the ages this unholy Time-frame has been spoken of as an
abomination, an accursed place devoid of godliness. Those who fall into the
snare used to lure us there will be making a tragic mistake that leads to
devolution - to what the bible speaks of as “beasts” and “outer darkness.” The
Hopi also warn of this zig-zag road leading to oblivion, as shown on the Hopi
Prophecy Rock. If we follow our hearts, remaining immovable from the Earth, we
are on a safe course, the true road to the perfected life awaiting us in the
Fifth World with our Mother Earth.
Final Thoughts
As
you read my words, I hope you’ll come to realize that this period is a jubilant
not a fearful time, a wonderful opportunity for all of us to welcome, as we
remain faithful to the Great Spirit, and Mother Earth, through this final
Purification. When a human mother is in labor, do we focus upon her birth pains,
or the wonderful new life which follows? Of course, it is the life! In the same
way, those who understand welcome this Purification Time, with all of the
Earth’s labor-tribulations, as the long promised coming of paradise, an event to
be faced with joyful anticipation rather than fear!
Although I have discussed several ideas which are probably new to you, the basic
ideas are simple: The Earth is our land and our life; to reach our crowning life
in the Fifth World we must cling tightly to the Earth through all the trials and
temptations of purification time, even unto death. For death has no sting, and
the grave holds a reward for the righteous who have remained immovable from
their Earth Mother. So let us keep our eyes down to the Earth and not up to any
other places. Our Mother asks us: who has ears to hear?
As the editors allow, I will be here for anyone who has questions about these
matters. You can also reach me at
hohongwitutiwa@sbcglobal.net
Naawakna nihqe kyaptsita – with love and respect,
Upaava- your brother Hohongwitutiwa
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Graphic Credits:
1. Mourned by Hopi Artist Michael Kabotie http://www.sarweb.org
2. Great Horned Owl from the author.
3. http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2008/09/hopi-in-star-trek.html
4. Emergence by Hopi Artist Michael Kabotie http://chinarose.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/the-mayan-age-of-transformation/