The Hopi Native Americans of the American Southwest have an ancient
prophecy that has long foreseen the destruction of our present world
through a purification by fire. You will know the times for this
purification are at hand when a series of prophecies known as the "final
warnings" are fulfilled.

The first set of warnings were meant to alert the Hopi elders of a
future time when the purification of the world was at hand; after which,
they were expected to break their silence and warn the world of a second
set of predictions hastening the onset of the purification of the world
by fire.

Here is the first set of warnings:

THE WARNING: An iron horse will come to the land of the red man.
THE FULFILLMENT: This is the train. It appeared in the 19th century

THE WARNING: The white man will raise metal wires into the skies.
THE FULFILLMENT: These are telegraph lines of the 19th and later the
power lines of the 20th century.

THE WARNING: Cobwebs will crisscross the skies.
THE FULFILLMENT: These are the contrails of planes and jets.

THE WARNING: The powers of the red, the swastika, and the sun will
threaten turtle island.
THE FULFILLMENT: North America seen from space looks like the outline of
a turtle. (Do not ask me how pre-Columbian seers knew that.) In World
War II and in the Cold War that followed, these three "powers" did
threaten North America. The swastika of the Nazis and later the "red"
forces of the Communists of Russia and China beset Turtle Island. The
powers of the sun did directly scorch the earth of native lands when the
white man tested his atomic bombs in Nevada and New Mexico near the Hopi
sacred lands in Arizona.

THE WARNING: The white man will create a Gourd of Ashes that will lay
waste to the land and keep it infertile for generations.
THE FULFILLMENT: These are atomic bombs. Radiation is the sterilizing
plague.

THE WARNING: The fulfillment of this first set of signs will warrant the
Hopi Elders end their long silence and spread their prophetic message
that the great purification is at hand. They will share their message
and their wisdom to the people of the world so that everyone could
prepare or soften its blow upon the earth.
THE FULFILLMENT: Indeed over 50 years ago, the Hopi Elders agreed that
the first wave of signs had all been fulfilled. They therefore began
warning the world about the prophecies of a coming purification. Some of
the elders, such as Thomas Banyaca, have explained the prophecies on
national television and spoke before the entire delegation of the United
Nations.

Now comes the second set of final warnings:

THE WARNING: A tribe of red hat and red cloaked people would come in
great numbers from the East, traveling through the air. They would
colonize the Western American lands and then scatter and disappear.
THE FULFILLMENT: The Tibetans came calling on the Hopi Elders when the
first three precursory signs in their own 1,200 year old prophecy
concerning the transplantation of their religion to America were fulfilled.

This prophecy coming from Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan
Buddhism, says, "When the iron bird flies (airplanes) and the horse runs
on wheels (cars), the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across
the face of the Earth, and the Dharma will come to the land of the red men."

Since the 1970s, the Dalai Lama and a number of marooned robed priests
fulfilled Hopi prophecy by regularly paying a visit to the Hopi elders
and moving on. Many Hopi's also believe a later visitation in the 1980s
of red cloaked and capped followers of Bhagwan Rajneesh coming in their
thousands to Eastern Oregon completes the prophecy. Even a handful of
Rajneeshees, aware of the prophecy, paid a visit to the Hopi
elder-in-chief, Grandfather David Monongye, in 1985, before they and
their fellow red clothed travelers soon vanished from sight. I report on
this meeting in detail in my book Messiahs: The Visions and Prophecies
for the Second Coming.

THE WARNING: The white man will steal rocks from the moon. This is a
danger sign, that we are in the final days before the purification.
THE FULFILLMENT: The Apollo moon landings unearthed (or should I say
"un-mooned?") hundreds of pounds of moon rocks, taking them back to
Earth. Indeed I saw one sitting under glass in the United Nations, just
outside the main theater where the Hopi Elders shared their prophecies
to the full United Nations delegation just a few years before.

THE WARNING: The white man will build a permanent house in the sky. This
is the final warning before the purification.
THE FULFILLMENT: MIR may have blazed its way down to the sea in
fragments, but the far more permanent International Space Station
traverses our skies today. It will be fully operational in a few more
years. One could argue that it is already operational and therefore the
times of the purification have come.


(Excerpts from a talk at the 1986 Continental Indigenous Council,
Fairbanks, Alaska)

There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the cycle of the
plant. And now we are in the cycle of the animal coming to the end of
that and beginning the cycle of the human being. When we get into the
cycle of the human being, the highest and greatest powers that we have
will be released to us.

At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit made
an appearance and gathered the peoples of this earth together, and said
to the human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions, and over
time I'm going to change you to four colors, but I'm going to give you
some teachings, and you will call these the Original Teachings; when you
come back together with each other, you will share these so that you can
live and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about.
During the cycle of time, I'm going to give each of you two stone
tablets. When I give you those stone tablets, don't cast them upon the
ground. If any of the sisters and brothers cast their tablets on the
ground, not only will human beings have a hard time, but almost the
earth itself will die."

And so He gave each of us a responsibility, and we call that the
Guardianship. To the Indian people, the red people, He gave the
Guardianship of the Earth. We were to learn during this cycle of time
the teachings of the earth, the plants that grow from the earth, the
foods that you can eat, and the herbs that heal so that, when we came
back together with the other sisters and brothers, we could share this
knowledge with them. Something good was to happen on the earth.

To the South He gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of the
Wind. They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take
that within ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to share that
with us at this time.

To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the
Water. They were to learn the teachings of the water, which is the chief
of the elements, being the most humble and the most powerful. The elders
have told me that the black people would bring the teachings of the water.

To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the
Fire. If you look at the center of many of the things they do, you will
find the fire. They say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you
look at the center of a car you will find a spark. If you look at the
center of the airplane and the train you will find the fire. The fire
consumes, and also moves. This is why it was the white sisters and
brothers who began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite us as
a human family.

And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four
races two stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in
Arizona at Four Corners Area on Third Mesa. I talked to people from the
black race, and their stone tablets are at the foot of Mount Kenya. They
are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe. I was at an Indian spiritual gathering
about 15 years ago. A medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded
medicine wheel in the middle of the gathering. It had the four colors
from the four directions; he asked the people, "Where is this from?"
They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota, maybe Saskatchewan." He
said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just like ours, with the same
colors.

The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans.
If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of
the world, you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for sun is the
Hopi word for moon, and the Hopi word for sun is the Tibetan word for moon.

[Note:
"When the iron eagle flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people
will be scattered over the earth and the dharma will go to the land of
the red man." --Tibetan Prophecy
"When the iron bird flies, the red-robed people of the East who have
lost their land will appear, and the two brothers from across the great
ocean will be reunited." --Hopi Prophecy]

The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss.
In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its
mask. They still know the colors of the families, and they still know
the symbols, some of them. Each of these four peoples happen to live in
the mountains.

Each of the four races went to their directions and learned their
teachings. It was in Newsweek not long ago that eight out of ten foods
that people eat on the earth are developed here in the western
hemisphere because that was our Guardianship -- to learn the teachings
of the earth and the things that grow from the earth. We were given a
sacred handshake to show, when we came back together as sisters and
brothers, that we still remembered the teachings.

It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first
sisters and brothers who would come back to them would come as turtles
across the land. They would be human beings, but they would come as
turtles. So when the time came close, the Hopis were at a special
village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land. They got
up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across
the desert, and they saw the Spanish conquistadores coming, covered in
armor, like turtles across the land. So this was them. So they went out
to the Spanish man, and they extended their hand, hoping for the
handshake. But into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so
word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard
time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the
sacredness of all things and all the human beings were going to suffer
for this on the earth.

So tribes began to send people to the mountains to have visions to try
to figure out how they could survive. At that time there were 100,000
cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound civilization:
cities built on great mounds. Those mounds are still there. They began
to try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time was
going to come. They began to send people to have visions to see how we
could survive this time. They were told in the prophecies that we should
try to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness of
all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace on earth. But
if we did not do that, if we had not come together as a human family,
the Great Spirit would grab the earth with His hand and shake it.

The elders on the west coast prophesied that they would then begin to
build a black ribbon. And on this black ribbon there would move a bug.
And when you begin to see this bug moving on the land, that was the sign
for the First Shaking of the Earth. The First Shaking of the Earth would
be so violent that this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air
and it would begin to move and fly in the air. And by the end of this
shaking this bug will be in the air around the world. Behind it would be
a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth would
become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause many
diseases that would get more and more complicated. So the bug moving on
the land, of course it's easy to see now. In 1908 the Model-T Ford was
mass produced for the first time. So the elders knew the First Shaking
of the Earth was about to come about -- that was the First World War.

In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the first
time. That was that bug moving into the sky. And so they knew something
very important would happen. There would be an attempt to make peace on
earth on the west coast of this land, and so the elders began to watch
for this. They began to hear that there was going to be a League of
Nations in San Francisco, so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920
or so, and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the
Indian people could be included in the League of Nations.

The United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a
separate and semi-sovereign nation, not a part of the United States but
protected by it. This became a concern because people didn't want the
reservations to become more and more separate. They didn't want them to
be considered nations. So they did not write back, and the Native people
were left out of the League of Nations so that circle was incomplete. In
the League of Nations circle there was a southern door, the yellow
people; there was a western door, the black people; there was a northern
door, the white people; but the eastern door was not attended. The
elders knew that peace would not come on the earth until the circle of
humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and
shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth.

So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little it.
There would be a cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk
across this cobweb. When this talking cobweb, the telephone, was built
around the earth, a sign of life would appear in the east, but it would
tilt and bring death (the swastika of the Nazis). It would come with the
sun. But the sun itself would rise one day, not in the east but in the
west (the rising sun of the Japanese Empire). So the elders said when
you see the sun rising in the east, and you see the sign of life
reversed and tilted in the east, you know that the Great Death is to
come upon the earth, and now the Great Spirit will grab the earth again
in His hand and shake it, and this shaking will be worse than the first.
So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika, and
the rising sun in the east was the Rising Sun of Japan. These two
symbols are carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders saw these two
flags, they knew that these were the signs that the earth was to be
shaken again.

The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the gourd of
ashes. They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make
the people like blades of grass in the prairie fire, and things will not
grow for many seasons. The atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes, it was the
best-kept secret in the history of the US. The elders wanted to speak
about it in 1920.

They would have spoken of it and foretold its coming if they could have
entered into the League of Nations. The elders tried to contact
President Roosevelt to ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it
would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater
destruction and a the Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War.

So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the
gourd of ashes fall from the sky, there would be an attempt to make
peace on the other side of this land. And because the peace attempt on
the west coast had failed, they would build a special house on the east
coast of this Turtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the
earth would come to this house, and it would be called the House of
Mica, and it would shine like the mica on the desert shines. So the
elders began to see they were building the United Nations made out of
glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they knew this was
the House of Mica, and all the peoples of the earth should go to it. So
they met and talked about this. They said that in the 1920's they had
written and they had not been responded to, so they said this time we'd
better go to the front door of the House of Mica because things might
get a lot worse.

So elders representing a number of tribes drove to New York City. When
the United Nations opened, they went to the front door of the house of
Mica and they said these words, 'We represent the indigenous people of
North America, and we wish to address the nations of the Earth. We're
going to give you four days to consider whether or not we will be
allowed to speak.'

They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State.
Four days later they came back, and I believe the nations of the earth
heard that the Indians had come to the door. And they voted to let the
Indians in. They wanted to hear what they had to say. But the United
States is one of five nations of the United Nations with a veto power,
and still they were concerned because this time the Native sovereignty
was even stronger. And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the Native
people.

So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth. So they
retreated to the Six Nations Reserve, and they talked about this, and
they said the time is really getting close now -- 1949. They said,
"We're going to divide the United States into four sections, and each
year we're going to have a gathering. We're going to call these the
White Roots of Peace Gatherings." They began to have these around 1950.
And they authorized certain people to speak in English for the first
time about these prophecies.

One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas
Banyaca. He was authorized to speak in English about what was on the
stone tablets, and he has dedicated his life to doing this. And they
began to tell us at these gatherings, "You're going to see a time in
your lifetime when the human beings are going to find the blueprint that
makes us." They call that now DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. They said,
"They're going to cut this blueprint." They call that now genetic
splicing. And they said, "They're going to make new animals upon the
earth, and they're going to think these are going to help us. And it's
going to seem like they do help us. But maybe the grandchildren and
great-grandchildren are going to suffer." The elders said long ago,
"They will release these things, and they will use them." This is going
to be released not too long from now. They are making new animals. The
elders talked about this. They said, "You will see new animals, and even
the old animals will come back, animals that people thought had
disappeared. They will find them here and there. They'll begin to
reappear." [Note: Mr. Brown's talk was given about ten years before
scientists announced that they had cloned a sheep.]

They said, "You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its
highest in the night, and it will land upon the moon. And at that time,
many of the Native people will be sleeping," which symbolically means
they have lost their teachings. We're at that time now. The Eagle has
landed on the moon, 1969. When that spaceship landed, they sent back the
message, "The Eagle has landed." Traditionally, Native people from clear
up in the Inuit region have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to
the Quechuas in South America.

At this time you're going to see that things will speed up, that people
on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have
time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will
seem like time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that,
as things speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go,
the slower you go. Because there's going to come a time when the earth
is going to be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has shaken the
earth two times: the First and Second World Wars to remind us that we
are a human family, to remind us that we should have greeted each other
as brothers and sisters. We had a chance after each shaking to come
together in a circle that would have brought peace on earth, but we
missed that.

Tonight they were talking on the news about the sign for the Third
Shaking of the Earth. They said they're going to build what the elders
called the house in the sky. In the 1950's they talked about this: they
will build a house and throw it in the sky. When you see people living
in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know the Great Spirit is about
to grab the earth, this time not with one hand, but with both hands.
When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to shake the
Earth a third time, and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them
it is going to drop. They say at that time there will be villages in
this land so great that when you stand in the villages you will not be
able to see out, and in the prophecies these are called villages of
stone, or prairies of stone. And they said the stone will grow up from
the ground, and you will not be able to see beyond the village. At the
center of each and every one of these villages will be Native people,
and they will walk as hollow shells upon a prairie of stone. They said
hollow shells, which means they will have lost any of their traditional
understandings; they will be empty within. They said that, after the
Eagle lands on the moon, some of these people will begin to leave these
prairies of stone and come home and take up some of the old ways and
begin to make themselves reborn, because it's a new day. But many will
not. And they said there's going to come a time when in the morning the
sun is going to rise, and this village of stone will be there, and in
the evening there would just be steam coming from the ground. They will
be as steam. And in the center of many of those villages of stone, when
they turn to steam, the Native people will turn to steam also because
they never woke up and left the village.

They say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's not
going to be a good thing to see, but we will survive it. We will survive
it. And when we survive it, there's going to be another attempt to make
a circle of the human beings on the earth. And this time the Native
people will not have to petition to join but will be invited to enter
the circle because they say the attitude toward us will have changed by
then, and people will let us into the circle, and all the four colors of
the four directions will share their wisdom, and there will be a peace
on earth. This is coming close.

The prophecies are always either/or. We could have come together way
back there in 1565, and we could have had a great civilization, but we
didn't. Always along the path of these prophecies, we could have come
together. We still could. If we could stop the racial and religious
disharmony, we would not have to go through this third shaking. The
elders say the chance of that is pretty slim. It seems to me like it's
pretty slim, too. But they say what we can do is we can cushion it so it
won't be quite as bad. How do we do this? We do this by sharing the
teaching that will reunite us.


Mathew King, Lakota
[From Wisdomkeepers by Steve Wall and Harvey Arden]
I prophesy things that come to pass. God is going to put a judgment on
the world. He's mad. I'm sorry it's going to happen. He's not going to
destroy the whole world. But every living thing will perish, and it'll
be maybe another million years before a new life begins again.
Grandmother Earth will be alone. She's going to rest. All because of
White Man's wickedness. You're going to fall and fall hard. You're going
to be crying and wailing. You'll realize you can't get away with
destroying God's world. Don't think you can get away with it. God's
going to wipe the wickedness from the earth. You can see his signs.

Out in the West, Mount St. Helens volcano -- that's a sign. And there's
going to be earthquakes; maybe half of California and half of Washington
and Oregon will go into the water. The same in the East, and in the
South. You're going to have volcanoes and earthquakes and hurricanes.


Leon Shenandoah, Onondaga
[From Wisdomkeepers by Steve Wall and Harvey Arden]
It's prophesied in our Instructions that the end of the world will be
near when the trees start dying from the tops down. That's what the
maples are doing today. Our Instructions say the time will come when
there will be no corn, when nothing will grow in the garden, when water
will be filthy and unfit to drink. And then a great monster will rise up
from the water and destroy mankind. One of the names of that monster is
"the sickness that eats you up inside" -- like diabetes or cancer or
AIDS. Maybe AIDS is the monster. It's coming. It's already here.

Our prophet Handsome Lake told of it in the 1700s. He saw Four Beings,
like four angels, coming from the Four Directions. They told him what
would happen, how there would be diseases we'd never heard of before.
You will see many tears in this country. Then a great wind will come, a
wind that will make a hurricane seem like a whisper. It will cleanse the
earth and return it to its original state. That will be the punishment
for what we've done to the Creation.