"The Bird That Turned the Meat Bitter" is a
Mandan legend. Ravens are usually completely
black birds, however the Mandan legend (below) makes
mention of a white raven, and the prophecy in this
traditional story is about a white raven that will
return:
The Bird That Made the Meat
Bitter
Looking about the lodges in
the village, Coyote saw strings of jerked meat,
but the people were lean. He asked why
this was. The people said, "When we go
hunting, only the fastest butchers can get their
meat home in good condition. There is a
Raven which flies over calling "Get bitter!
Get bitter!" (gi-ba in Mandan) and the meat
turns bitter." Coyote asked for a sample.
He chewed but could not swallow the meat, it was
so bitter. He said, "I must have this
thing righted." He sent the young girl
after firewood and had it piled ready to light,
first laying down manure because it keeps the
flame a long time. Then he had the men get
timber rope and make a snare. He filled up
his pipe and asked help of his fellow creatures.
The big Spider came to his aid, and he lighted
the pipe for the Spider to smoke. Now the
Raven lived in a hollow tree out of which it
flew when the men were butchering. Big
Spider said, "It is easy to snare that bird.
Be ready to snare him into the fire and let him
burn. Some of his feathers will fly into
the air and turn into birds. When you see
a white Raven fly out a cry 'At the end of the
world there shall be seen a white Raven as a
sign that the world is coming to an end' that
will be the last of it."
They sent out young men into the hills
scouting. These reported Buffalo.
They made ready for the hunt. The fastest
runners went ahead to encircle the herd.
Buffalo always run towards the wind, but the
runners drove them towards the other hunters.
These formed a corral where they slaughtered the
whole herd. The men with large families
packed meat home; others followed behind.
Meanwhile, some watched by the hollow tree.
When the bird came out, before it could cry,
Coyote caught it by the neck and pulled it to
the ground. It had the head of a man and
the body of a bird. The face was human but
had no hair. The body had wings and a long
neck. It was a frightful thing to see.
Coyote clubbed the bird and threw it into the
flames. Feathers flew up and turned into
birds and flew away. The unburned bones
Coyote crushed with his club. Finally out
flew a white Raven and said, "When the world is
about to end I will come to you again!" So
Coyote told the people that was to be a sign to
them.
(Source)
Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein, a Yupik
Elder, confirmed the above story when she told the
prophecy "The Return of White Raven," as she says it
here:
"Prophecy states that when people become
spiritual again, the White Raven will return."
(Source)
Notice in the Mandan story, "The Bird That Made
the Meat Bitter," that it is actually a story of the
Phoenix. The Phoenix is a story of death and
rebirth, symbolized by the Phoenix bird being burned
to ashes then rising upward out of the ashes a new
bird. The story is found in most cultures.
The word Phoenix is Greek, but the Phoenix story
originated in the Hindu Scripture
Rig Veda as Vena:
6. They gaze on thee with longing
in their spirit, as on a strong-winged bird that
mounteth sky-ward;
On thee with wings of gold, Varuna's envoy, the Bird
that hasteneth to the home of Yama.
(Rig Veda HYMN CXXIII. Vena -
Source)
In the modern world, there are connections made
through traditional or cultural stories that in turn
connect us all. We can connect the Mandan
story of the White Raven to the Hindu hymn, and the
Phoenix, and the Bible,
and then to the Mission of Maitreya.
In
THOTH
it is explained why similar stories spread around
the world. Why, for example, a
similar story of the Phoenix is found in so
many, very geographically separated peoples.
It says in THOTH,
The Holiest Book, Holiest One,
Tablet 23, that this happened after the Flood of
Noah:
FAR
EAST PHILOSOPHIES
--
MYSTICAL PATHS
"And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and
took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered
burnt offerings on the altar." (Genesis 8:20)
<1>The new generation started to build altars
and offer burnt offerings to the Lord. This new generation lost its
direct contact with
God. However, Noah still
had this direct relationship with
God, so he set a symbolic example for the other humans of
sacrificing.
<2>These teachings of
Noah to the new generation and his example became the base for the
religion of the new human. <3>Later on the essence of these teachings was
preserved as the base of the religion of humanity and spread all
throughout the earth. This is the base of most of the
Mystical Paths
existing. Eventually some of these teachings were written down as
the
Vedas. In their
refined form they became the
Vedantas.
<4>In the Far East, from this knowledge
combined with many other discoveries and absorption of many parts
from other religions, a body of knowledge was formed to which all
religions of the Far East and the
Mystical Paths
in other religions are related. (For a deeper meaning of the phrases
used here as "Mystical
Paths" or "Far
East Philosophies," see The Glossary.)
So far, we have found out that the White Raven
will return when humans are spiritual again, but
also, at the same time, it will be the end of the
world. Therefore, we know the Return of White
Raven is an End Time prophecy that relates to the
Tribulation in the Bible.
The story of the Tribulation is similar to a
Phoenix that burns up then rises skyward out of the
ashes a new bird. In the
Bible, a New Heaven
and a New Earth will appear out of the old heaven
and the old earth:
"And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were
passed away; and there was no more sea." (Revelation
21:1)
John the Baptist tells us who the White
Raven is by confirming who the Christ is in John
1:26-27. In THOTH,
Saint John (Explained),
Tablet 2, it explains:
"John
answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but
there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;"
(John 1:26)
"He it is,
who coming after me is preferred before me,
whose shoe's latchet
I am not worthy to unloose."
(John 1:27)
<6>Again he answered them that he was
the harbinger of
Christ, that he was Elias (Elijah).
Then John the Baptist tells us exactly who White
Raven is in Matthew 3:11 by saying the Christ will
baptize by fire. In THOTH,
Commentaries On St. Matthew,
Tablet 3, it explains being baptized by the Holy
Ghost, and with fire:
"I indeed baptize
you with water unto repentance: but he
that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes
I am not worthy to bear: he shall
baptize you with the
Holy Ghost, and with fire:" (Matthew
3:11)
<25>In
fact, being baptized with The
Holy Ghost (satva raja, or Fire) is the only
true way of being baptized.
Baptism by water is a symbol of that kind of
baptism, because only after repentance and
changing the way of life toward
purification will a person receive The
Holy Ghost and truly be baptized.
Being baptized by "satva raja,
or Fire" - in particular Fire - "toward
purification" is like the Phoenix.
At the end of the Bible,
the Christ, or White Raven, will return. This
must then be the answer to the prophecy. White
Raven is the Return of Christ, and the Return of
Christ is Maitreya. Note in
the below quote that it is the
Lion of the
Tribe of Judah that is indicated, and this is a
reference to the Christ. Therefore, as it says
in the Bible, it is the
Second Coming of Christ who opens the Book of the
Seven Seals and unveils the Mystery of God:
"And they sung a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the
seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;"
(Revelation 5:9)
"But in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the
mystery of God should be finished, as he hath
declared to his servants the prophets." (Revelation
10:7)
Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein states the
prophecy "that when people become spiritual
again, the White Raven will return." This
means humans were once spiritual before. What
she is talking about happened a long time ago when
humans were more spiritual, explained in THOTH
as before the new "mighty men which were of old, men
of renown,"
The Base,
Tablet 8:
There
were giants in the earth in those days;
and also after that, when the sons of
God came in unto the daughters of
men, and they bare children to them, the
same became mighty men which were of
old, men of renown.
(Genesis 6:4)
And
God said unto Noah, The end of all
flesh is come before me; for the earth
is filled with violence through them;
and, behold, I will destroy them with
the earth.
(Genesis 6:13)
<1>The humans had
direct access to the spiritual powers,
so they could manipulate them and use
them as they pleased. Because they
(most of them) misused them, a
disturbance in the balance of nature
resulted and this affected all levels of
existence of the old generation. <2>Also
great powers were released which had
created unrest in nature ("the earth is
filled with violence through them").
<3>God
then decided to take these powers away
from humans, so He would not have to
struggle with them, "And the Lord said,
My Spirit shall not always strive with
man,..." (Gen. 6:3). He would only
give these powers back to those who were
worthy to receive them after proving
they would not misuse them.
<4>So the door of the
spiritual center (third
eye) in the human was closed, and
the spiritual understandings and powers
became latent (kundalini). Man
became a rational animal with only
intellect left in him.
<5>With this, the human
became completely helpless and
powerless. He no longer can
misuse the powers in the universe for
his mundane desires. Now
God could leave men by themselves
and only through His
Prophets and sons, little by little,
bring those who show they are worthy to
higher consciousness, awaken their
spiritual understandings (kundalini),
and open their eyes (third
eyes) to the higher truth.
This process started twelve thousand
years ago.
<6>Also, in the last
six thousand years, He has created a
history for men that is full of lessons.
This was done so that eventually they
would understand these lessons and
through them would learn not to make the
same mistakes again. Also it would
teach that
God is the true Guide and should be
followed. That is what history is
for.
<7>Man before the flood
did not have a history. That is
why history only goes back five or six
thousand years. <8>Furthermore,
through the same time period, by His
Messengers (sons of
God),
God has sent the
Eternal Divine Path to guide
humans, step-by-step, toward becoming
His sons. This path covers seven truths
that have been revealed to humanity by
seven
Prophets (Angels)
as seven religions.
<9>Only when all of the
seven truths are understood and their
relationships realized and followed, can
a man awaken his spiritual forces and
become one with Him.
<10>The beginning of
this new kind of man ("men of renown")
and Plan is symbolized by the flood of
Noah, destruction of the old earth and
creation of the new one.
<11>Actually the
civilization that was destroyed was
living in a land*
in the Atlantic Ocean between Southern
Europe and Northern Africa, and it
stretched to the southern part of North
America.
<12>These new humans
started their life on the earth in an
area north of that land which also was
destroyed later (Gen. 10:25). They
became "mighty men which were of old,
men of renown." Their intellectual
power, reasoning, and understandings
were greater than that of the old human
with great spiritual powers but little
reasoning. With these abilities,
they could reach higher consciousness
but could not misuse the universal
forces for their mundane desires.
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* The land mentioned
above in the Atlantic Ocean surfaced
between North America and Europe, and
then later on sank again.
In conclusion, there are many things to
understand, but we know that when the White Raven
returns humans will be spiritual again. THOTH
explains the migration of people, and teachings,
after Noah, exactly as it happened. We were
separated and scattered around the world, but today
we are connected through world communications.
If we remain separated, by countries, religions,
races, or anything that separates us, then we cannot
become spiritual again.
We will understand the beautiful things in THOTH
and The Greatest Sign because a
prophecy is meant to come true, and Grandmother Rita
Pitka Blumenstein did not say
if we become
spiritual again, she said
when we become spiritual again.
Maitreya is the White Raven because John
the Baptist said the Christ will baptize with fire,
which reflects the Phoenix story and the end of the
Mandan story "The Bird That Made the Meat Bitter."
This also means the Return of the Christ is the
Seventh Angel, and Maitreya is the
Seventh Angel who wrote the book THOTH.
Note: Also see a response we
received to this article, and Maitreya's
answer to it!
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