The Hopi Medicine
Wheel Prophecy
By Andrew Dwight Harris
The medicine wheel prophecy is
drawn as a circle with four equal quadrants which
represent all the races in four colors. Hopi
Elders
Thomas Banyacya and
Martin Gashweseoma as well as spiritual leader and
Cherokee
Lee Brown will explain, but first it is probably
good to know that this medicine wheel prophecy and its
teachings, including the four directions and the four races, are used
throughout the United States and southern Canada.
It is
a cross-cultural symbol among the Native Americans and you
can see it in many places such as in native
artwork and clothing. The
Cherokee know about it. The
Cree know about it. I first learned about it
by seeing it as an ancient pictograph painted in red paint
on the rocks close to my home in southern British
Columbia, Canada. It is a Native American and Native Canadian teaching symbol.
It does apparently originate from
the Hopi because it also represents the Four Corners
area (the Navajo live in the Four Corners area as well).
Thomas Banyacya says:
The Four Corners area of the Hopi
is bordered by
four
sacred mountains. The spiritual center within
is a sacred site our prophecies say will have special
purpose in the future for mankind to survive and now
should be left in its natural state. All nations
must protect this spiritual center.
(Source)
So the Four
Corners region is part of this prophecy.
To make a
medicine wheel, first make a dot and draw a circle around
it. Many are made by creating
a circle of rocks that have lines radiating from the
center. From this circle
with a center are then made
innumerable designs with many
unknown meanings.
The name 'medicine wheel' comes
from its
spiritual and healing aspect, and also because many of
these medicine wheels resemble the old-style 'wagon wheel.'
Along with the abundance of
knowledge about the medicine wheel by North American
aboriginal peoples, it is also used in
the Vision Quest:
Traditionally, the seeker finds a
place that they feel is special, and sits in a 10 foot
circle and brings nothing in from society with the
exception of water. A normal Vision Quest usually
lasts two to four days within this circle, in which time
the seeker is forced to look into his soul.
(Source)
The Hopi Medicine Wheel Prophecy
Thomas Banyacya explains some of
the meanings of the Hopi Medicine Wheel:
The circle with the 4 (o's) and
cross within (above), symbolizes the Four Corners Region
(where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet - a
very high energy vortex). The circle represents no
end - the infinite Great Spirit. The Indians
believe we are the 5th World of Man. When the 4th
World was destroyed (this destruction was foretold),
those Indians who had listened were guided to places of
safety, underground. After the 5th World was
created, they assembled at Four Corners and were
instructed to spread out in the four directions (north -
south - east - west). Four (4) also represents the
four elements in nature: fire, water, air and earth; and
the four color races of man.
(Source)
Grandfather Martin Gashweseoma, traditional Hopi Elder and
Guardian of the Sacred Stone Tablets of the Fire Clan:
At the beginning of this cycle of time,
long ago, the Great Spirit came down and He made an
appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth
together they say on an island which is now beneath the
water and He 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 and 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."
(Source)
Lee Brown, spiritual leader, Cherokee:
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."
(Source)
My point is that the four colors
are well-known in these teachings as a representation of
all the races of the earth. In the prophecy, these races
are to come together, and I assume a mixing of the races.
So, these findings support Maitreya's
May 2010 Newsbrief article on
Perfect Beings, as well as the Mission of Maitreya's
main spiritual book,
THOTH, with
its essay on
Mixing Races.
However, there is still more. Here
are some
verses from the Old Testament that seem to go along with
this Medicine Wheel Prophecy:
And there shall come forth a rod out of
the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his
roots:
(Isaiah 11:1)
And he shall set up an ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth.
(Isaiah 11:12)
[To see how these prophecies are
fulfilled by Maitreya, read the
Jewish Prophecies
section of this website.]
It sounds like the "outcasts of
Israel" and the "dispersed of Judah" are the Lost
Tribes of Israel, a definition of which can be found in
THOTH in
The House of Judah (Jews). In fact, the
gathering of the Jews back to Israel can very well be a
symbol for the greater gathering of the Elects, as is
explained in Maitreya's teachings.
We know that the Elects are Paravipras and do not belong
to a specific race or people (nation), etc. So the
meaning of "gather" in this prophecy is much greater
than the coming together of just one people or race!
I am most interested in the
part, "and gather together the dispersed ... from
the four corners of the earth," which sounds so similar
to the Hopi Medicine Wheel Prophecy. That is what
is supposed to happen when the
Pahana returns:
The four races
will come together.
Furthermore, the first verse, Isaiah 11:1, seems to be talking about a lineage, "and a
Branch shall grow out of his roots," from which the
Messiahs
or Prophets were to emerge. According to many people,
genealogy is very important in prophecies because the
expected Messiah must be of a certain lineage (see
this webpage for details). In the
Bible, it was written
as generations, but a genetic code is the same thing.
In conclusion, I can say that if we
join together the Hopi and Bible
prophecies that state that the Pahana or True White Brother is predicted to return at
this time and that there will be a "gathering together"
and a "coming back together" of all
the people, then the True White Brother should also have the
genetic code or lineage of King David, as did the other
Prophets in the Bible, if we can relate Hopi prophecies
with Biblical prophecies. And Maitreya
is descended from the
lineage of King David, so this can be another sign that
Maitreya is the True White Brother!
Here is Maitreya's
genetic code
and genealogy
that show he has the correct lineage to be who he says
he is.
Native American Prophecies Index