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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Listen to the Elders: Lighting 8th Fire
According to their oral tradition, at the time of
this and other signs, the Hopi had a responsibility to seek out a House
of Mica (glass) that would stand on the far eastern shore of Turtle
Island -- a place where leaders from around the world would come to
discuss their problems. In 1948 the Hopi recognized the newly
constructed UN headquarters as the long-awaited House of Mica. Prophecy
instructed the Hopi that, when they found the great meeting house for
the leaders of the world, they should make four knocks on the door --
four attempts to speak there and to deliver a key message.
The House of Mica -
United Nations headquarters in New York City, with its distinctive
glass facade, which gleams like the mineral mica in the desert sunshine.
(UN Photo 104 713 SAW LWIN).
Over the years since 1948 the Hopi elders
came and knocked again and again at the door to the House of Mica, but
they were turned away.
Finally, a delegation of four Hopi elders
came to New York in 1993 for the Cry of the Earth conference -- what
amounted to a fourth and final knock at the door to the House of Mica.
The Hopi were accompanied by 24 other traditional elders from six other
Native American nations, including the four-person Algonquin delegation
headed by Grandfather Commanda.
Speaking at UN headquarters, the elders
delivered a unified and explicit warning that the time of purification
-- the era of withering fruit spoken of in their traditions -- is
already in progress, and likely to intensify. They presented their
understandings, handed down orally since antiquity, regarding the
ethical, ecological, and spiritual crises confronting humanity today.
Their messages fell on deaf ears.
When Grandfather Commanda gauged the lack of
understanding at the UN, he saw an urgent need to take the messages of
the elders directly to the people, and to fulfill the instructions set
out long ago by the Seventh Prophet. The experience at the UN set the
idea in his mind. It impelled him to sound the call for a prayer walk
that would "retrace the steps of the ancestors along the path of the
Sun," from East to West, to recover what had been lost long ago, as the
Seventh Prophet had said should happen.
Although UN officials and the media were
unmoved by the elders unified cry of warning in 1993, at least one
person heard the message. It changed the course of his life. Tom Dostou
is a man of mixed Wabanaki and Irish heritage. He had come to New York
that November in a rage. He was seeking guns and money to support an
incipient revolt against the Canadian government on a Mohawk
reservation. But he was stopped in his tracks by the elders.
Upon hearing their messages, Tom had what he
would later describe as an instant spiritual awakening. He forswore
anger and violence, and abandoned his search for weapons. He determined
instead to spearhead the prayer walk that Grandfather was calling for –
to retrace the footsteps of the ancestors. A forceful and charismatic
figure, Tom assumed the mantle of headman for the walk.
Plans for the pilgrimage began to take
shape. The walkers would start near the Eastern Door of Turtle Island --
in Massachusetts along the Atlantic Ocean -- and then retrace the
footsteps of the ancestors south and west, carrying the message of the
elders directly to the people.
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Nine months after the elders spoke at the
UN's House of Mica, something happened that intensified the sense of
urgency for the walk to get underway. A white buffalo calf was born.
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"I ask you to listen not just
with your minds. I ask you to listen with your hearts, because that is
the only way you can receive what it is -- what we are giving. These are
the teachings of our hearts.
"This walk is going to take
eight or nine months. There are lots of elders out there across Turtle
Island, and they have many beautiful teachings, many teachings that all
the people need now. It is our hope, it is our prayer that they will
come forward now that the Eastern Door is open
"It is our prayer that they will meet us as
we walk; that they will teach and share what they understand from their
hearts. Be patient. Listen to the elders. You need patience to receive
these teachings. It doesn't all come at once. You need patience."
- Frank Decontie, Algonquin
June 23, 1995
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across Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Washington, D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, toward the Western Gate,
California.
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