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Chief Dan Evehema of the Hopi Sends A Message to
Mankind
Photo From Brenda Norrell, Indian Country Today
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 is 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 about 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 world 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 sustenance for our table, do they not? We are one after
all.
Chief Dan Evehema, Spiritual leader, Eldest Elder Greasewood
/
Roadrunner Clan Society Father / Snake Priest / Kachina
Father.
From Hotevilla, Arizona, Hopi Sovereign Nation.
