His Final Message to Mankind
From Hotevilla, Arizona, USA
Dan Evehema, Eldest Elder
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 Creator's 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 sizes 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 chose 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 one's 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 game 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 sustanance for our table, do they not?
We are one after all.