Guest Author - Phyllis Doyle Burns
According to ancient Hopi prophecy, we are nearing the end of the Fourth World and are quickly approaching the Fifth World. Who will be the ones involved in this emergence to the Fifth World? What kind of peoples will they be? Will the emergence even include humans - or will the new world consist of only plant and animal life, as it was in the beginning?
There are so many questions about this prophecy and many interpretations by learned scholars as well as the average person. Apparently, the beginning of the new world will start emerging on or around the winter solstice of the year 2012 - now that is not too far away from now.
The Hopi believe that "It is only materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the great shelter of life. There is no shelter for evil. Those who take no part in the making of world division by ideology are ready to resume life in another world, be they Black, White, Red, or Yellow race. They are all one, brothers." This is part of the Hopi Prophecy and philosophy.
The Mayan calendar was created by the ancient Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Some Maya communities in highland Guatemala still use the calendar today. The Maya calendric system was based upon a system dating back to the 6th century BC.
Itzamna, the Maya mythological deity, is often credited for bringing forth the knowledge of the calendar system to the ancients. To get into the explanation of the different counting systems of the Mayan calendars can take a massive volume and boggle one's mind to the point of mush, unless you are an expert on interpreting numerical systems and cyclical periods of time. The people who created the Mayan calendar had to have had minds in the realm of a genius.
As for me, trying to read all I could about this calendar cycle and try to understand the meaning of it caused me to take several more coffee breaks than I normally do when researching.
So, I came upon a simple solution. The Mayan calendar, based on a period of 260 days and covering centuries, from ancient times to the winter solstice in 2012, is a cycle of time. At the end of that cycle, a new cycle will begin. The new cycle was just not calculated by the ancients. Why would they go beyond the many centuries they did when maybe the new cycle will just be a repeat of the same calendar, the same cycle with different dates?
Since ancient times, the Native Americans have seen life in the form of circles, from birth to death, to rebirth in another realm - in human life as well as all creation. On that morning, after the end of the Mayan calendar cycle, is the world going to be destroyed? Or, is simply a new cycle of time in centuries going to begin?
It is believed by many scholars that the ancestors of the Hopi are the ancient Anasazi and that the ancestors of the Anasazi are the ancient Mayans.
The Hopi have survived the first three worlds and are still going strong in the fourth. They are preparing for the emergence into the Fifth World, hopefully looking for peace and ambiance among all creation and ready for the transition that will set all to rights.
In the Sacred Hopi Wisdom, that time is not in the too distant future. When the Saquasohuh (Blue Star) Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask. He represents a blue star, far off and yet invisible, which will make its appearance soon. The time is foretold by a song sung during the Wuwuchim ceremony. It was sung in 1914 just before World War I, and again in 1940 before World War II, describing the disunity, corruption, and hatred contaminating Hopi rituals, which were followed by the same evils spreading over the world. This same song was sung in 1961 during the Wuwuchim ceremony.
I truly admire the Hopi Peoples. They are survivors and a peaceable people. Many will wonder why, if they are so wise, do they live in an area far from water and the conveniences of modern technology? The answer is simple to them and makes sense to me. If they made their life easy, like most westerners have done, they would lose touch with the Balance and Harmony with Nature, lose touch with their Creator and the desire to continually struggle for spiritual growth and sacred knowledge would become lost in time.
The Hopi believe the Emergence has begun.
Am I predicting the end of the world? No - for there are others, far more knowledgeable than I, who have their opinions and predictions. I am only suggesting that regardless of what the future holds for life on Mother Earth, it is wise to make the best of each day you are alive. Look back only to remind yourself of things you do not wish to repeat; look forward to only determine possibilities and opportunities lying in your path; and live today to it's fullest. Hold good memories dear and hopes near.
What is my take on all this talk about the possibility of this world ending? The following explains my thoughts on all this:
The Salutation of The Dawn
Listen to the exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this day, for it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In it's brief course lie all the varieties and realities of your existence;
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision;
But Today well lived
Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn.
- Kalidasa, Sanskrit Poet of India, circa 370-450AD
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