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HOPI ELDER CHIEF DAN EVEHEMA'S MESSAGE TO MANKIND |
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In the wake of 911, I place this and other messages here in the hopes of sharing vibrations of, and instilling prayed for,
humanity, peace and freedom.
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A Hopi Elder Speaks
"You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered . . .
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader."
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, "This could be a good time!"What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader."
"There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly.
"Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water.
"And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
"The time for the lone wolf (world) is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
 Words from another teacher. |
Oraibi, Arizona Hopi Nation Date(?): Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:44:17 -0700  |
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Following on this page (LINKS): A Hopi Story Passed on by Chief Dan Evehema A Statement from Tanwιya ...on Right Relation and "Faith vs Belief" MORE LINKS ...at the bottom of this page. |
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| Hopi Elder Chief Dan Evehema's Message to Mankind (Mar,1996?) |
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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 [clockwise] 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, (@105yrs) [1890/91 to Jan 15,1999]
Spiritual leader, Eldest Elder Greeswood / Roadrunner Clan Society Father / Snake Priest / Kachina Father.
From Hotevilla, Arizona, Hopi Sovereign Nation.
"Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration."
*A prayer for guidance:
...commentary on "Right Relation",
...and a look at Faith, Belief and human (mis)programming.
How does one "celebrate" war??
What "sacred manner" does one invoke as one engages in the horrible task of vanquishing one's enemy??
This Bastard just killed thousands of innocent men women and children, what the hell are we talking about here anyway??!!
...if you absolutely "believe" terrorists are your enemy, then beware you do not become your own worst enemy!
Terrorism "is" an enemy, and it would certainly be a mistake to stand by idley and allow those who would perpetrate death and distruction to continue unanswered;
but... that "the evil" is something soley outside of yourself is an illusion... and each one of us has an important responsibility to something else as well, lest that evil consume and blind us, and rob us of our freedom and humanity... and it is way too easy to forget...
"Right Relation" and "Warrior Heart"
As we prepare to wage certain war on so-called "perpetrators of terror and evil," I pray, let us not stray from our duty, our perpetual responsibility, for also ever-mindfully waging peace and mercy with each step taken in battle.
For even if our apparent "foe" has not the mindset to, per chance, facilitate peace, how could the opportunity for it ever have a chance to show itself or be known, or to be facilitated into reality ...if "one" does not facilitate the "space" for its potential by way of ones own gift of virtue?! And this means doing more than praying for peace and then running out and "killing the bastards." Where will we find salvation in our victory, find or know peace and freedom, without facilitating this "space" in our very hearts - as we take action? This, truly, is the wisdom of "Right Relation" ...the very character of the "Merciful Warrior"... the essence which, very naturally, compells us to recognize "a hero," to identify strength of character we would hope to strive for.
If "one" closes the door on the potential for peace, on the "selfless tools" of mercy and right-thinking during any moment, then "one" is responsible for the ultimate consequences, which could only result in closing the door on peace and morality for one's self. I may not be able to stave off suffering in war, or to aid or have any effect toward turning someone's mind even slightly from evil, yea, even my own encumbered heart; ...yet, as my own "knowingness" tells me, I must remember that I have the choice, and even the responsibility, to facilitate the potential for divine presence, if you will, wherever it may chance to flourish, if even it is only through my most humble prayer and actions...,
...for how is divinity's liberating wonder ever expressed or felt or witnessed in humanity if it isn't through the mindfulness and actions of an individual. A great warrior or leader, or anyone in "right relation" with himself, understands the critical importance of working at never failing to constantly be paying attention to holding his most exalted morality close to his heart, lest his heart fall to giving in to evil - during engagements with evil - whether its in his external or internal struggle. He (or she) knows that if he fails at this, in that moment he begins facilitating that which he was fighting so hard to overcome.
Home is truly "where the heart is." If I misplace or forget my heart, who else might I blame for my fear and hate, and my ultimate disparagement, except myself? To succumb to belief and judgement perpetrated by fear and hate is to turn one's back on one's own true knowingness - what one knows to be true in one's own heart.
May the Great Spirit lend me the strength and guide me to embrace love and courage in my thoughts and actions, even in my darkest hour. This I ask for all my brothers and sisters, my friends and my enemies as well, and for leaders and teachers everywhere.
"Faith" vs. "Belief" ...and the fate of self-delusion
One More Thing to Add Regarding Belief and Faith ...as many unwittingly confuse themselves by confusing the meaning of the two, without realizing the true ramafications.
Many have said to me, "I believe in xyz..." when talking about their "faith" (in God, Great Spirit, or however you refer to "yours") without making any distinction between the two. This is a seemingly innocent mistake, yet a disparaging trap, for it is sorely misleading to one's understanding and better judgement. First, consider the true meaning of these two words:
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Belief: The root "lief" literally means "a wish". The root "be" means "exist."
To be-lieve literally means "to wish to exist." It means to wish or desire something to be true, which actually has nothing to do with "faith." In fact, it is quite in contrast to it! Believing is only a flight of fancy. ("ism," by the way, means "belief.")
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Faith: In the modern dictionary you will typically find the definition "belief" with a sprinkling of "trust"; however, if you study its roots carefully you will find this is actually very misleading.
"Faith" literally means "to trust in one's own knowingness." or "to stand upon that which one knows to be true in order to rise above fear, even in the face of uncertainty." It means to (choose to) stand firm upon what is apparently true, or apparently real, to you ....whether you "believe" it [wish it to be true] or not. (refer to *LINK* at the end for greater detail)
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Secondly, consider the following...
Have you ever witnessed something and exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" ...and yet you cannot deny what your feelings are "making clearly apparent" to you? Faith has to do with that which is "apparent" inside of you even though it is "something which is not seen" [that which is inside of you is typically "hidden" [like your feelings] - and so we are prone to uncertainty about it because it is seemingly intangible and unprovable] ...however, faith has nothing to do with wishing or desire! Maybe the intangible cannot be scientifically validated, and maybe you don't even "believe" it, ...but...
"when you cannot deny something is true AND you choose to use it as the foundation of your actions [as opposed to turning away from it], this is what faith is. Trusting in what you feel you know to be the truth."
Faith2-*LINK* To trace the meaning more succinctly, I have prepared a little more on the word for you here, followed by a comment on why this understanding is so important to your well-being.
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