![]() Many Hopi spiritual elders (singular, kikmongwi) claim that we are living in the final days of the Fourth World. The dire signs of a Native American version of the “End Times” are everywhere. Those that do stay on the reservation are confronted with intra-tribal squabbles and, much worse, with high rates of alcoholism and increasingly available lethal street drugs. More youth are leaving Hopi-land to seek employment in urban areas. Fewer and fewer young Hopis are learning their indigenous language, customs, and ceremonies. (MarkThree/ CC BY-SA 4.0 )Īs time goes by, this task is increasingly difficult because our contemporary lifestyle, with its technological gadgetry and unseemly allurements, continues to erode traditional ways of life and ancestral Hopi values. Hopi Niman or Going Home ceremony where group of Hemis Kachinas and a variety of Kachina manas perform and bring gifts of harvest food for the spectators and Kachina dolls for young girls, by Hopi/Tewa N David SR. Living on their three primary mesas, the Hopi continue to perform a series of annual sacred rituals within their ceremonial cycle in order to keep not just themselves but rather the whole world in balance. Instead they now use the Tzolk’in calender of 260 days-an amazingly complex system, nonetheless.Īre We Reaching the End of the Fourth World in Hopi Prophecy? The verb tenses here are deliberate, given that the Maya no longer follow the Long Count calendar of 394-year cycles. It has been said that the Maya were masters of time, whereas the Hopi are masters of space. Unlike the Maya, the Hopi are rarely specific about the dates for the shifting of these ages. In other words, cataclysmic events in the natural world are causally connected to collective transgressions, or negatives human actions. These three global destructions were not the result of merely random earth changes or astrophysical phenomena but of humankind’s disregard both for Mother Earth and for the spiritual dictates of the Creator. As recorded by many cultures around the globe, a tremendous deluge destroyed the Third World. ![]() The Second World was destroyed by ice-a great Ice Age. The First World was destroyed by fire-a comet, asteroid strike, or a number of volcanic eruptions. The Hopi believe that we have suffered three previous world cataclysms. ![]() Like the Maya, among whom the Hopi once lived and with whom they later traded, the Hopi conceptualize the cycles of time as world-ages. ( Library of Congress ) Hopi Cycles of Time Snake Kiva in the village of Oraibi, the oldest continuously inhabited community on the North American continent, established about 1100 AD. ![]() Considering the history of exploitation and genocide of Native Americans in general, this is understandable. Many times they simply do not wish to share these visions with the outside world. ![]() These isolated, sedentary farmers living in unpretentious pueblos (basically stone apartment buildings) on the high desert of the American Southwest have looked into the future from their kivas (subterranean, communal prayer-chambers) and have seen some rather disturbing scenarios.
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