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AMERICAS: Indigenous Elders and Priests Make Prophecy Come True
Fabiana Frayssinet
- The ancient prophecy of the Hopi indigenous people from North America has been fulfilled: elders and priests from the entire continent, the keepers of ancestral wisdom, met for the first time in Central America, the “centre” alluded to in the prophecy.
“Those of the centre will bring together the eagle from the north and the condor from the south. We will meet with our brothers and sisters because we are one, like the fingers of a hand,” says the prophecy, which came true this week in the “Reunion of Elders and Priests of Amerika”.
Garbed in ceremonial dress and following the rhythm of their sacred instruments, the representatives of numerous ethnic groups came from the Andes of Patagonia at the southern tip of the continent, the Amazon jungle, the hills of Peru, the mesetas of Central America and the North American plains, to pool their sacred knowledge to save the earth.
Many had never left their isolated communities, and some had never even seen a car, let alone an airplane such as the ones that carried them, flying “like birds” to make the prophecy come alive.
Called together by Mayan elder “Tata” (Grandfather) Cirilo Perez, known as the “Ancient of Amerika”, the elders and priests have seen a dream come true – one that was predicted by their brothers and sisters in the north, but which was also written in their books, and inscribed on their stones and sacred altars.
“The aim of this reunion is to meet 503 years later to recall how our forefathers and ancestors managed the continent with the world view they had of the north and the south,” Marceliano Guerra, an elder of the Utoto ethnic group from the Colombian Amazon, told IPS.
The knowledge they possess, which has been trampled by “men from Europe and the north,” goes beyond the supposed advances of science that will end up destroying humanity itself, they say.
“Years ago, I was already warning that no more bombs should be invented, that coal was influencing the overheating of the earth, that the ozone layer was broken. But they didn’t understand that until they sent up their space apparatuses – satellites,” said Tata Cirilo.
Mixco Viejo – located in Chimaltenango, some 150 kilometres from the capital of Guatemala – is only one sacred or “magnetic” Maya centre that the elders honoured during their stay in Guatemala.
Although their bones were tired, they became agile youngsters as they climbed the ancient pyramids, to worship their gods and share their philosophies.
“For us, there is no end because everything is infinite. Everything is up, down, to the sides, towards all the cardinal points,” said Valentin Mejillos Acarapi, an Aymara priest from Bolivia.
“For us there is no end, because death does not exist. All movement is cyclical. For that reason, all is one and one is all,” added the wise man, who asked to sit by a waterfall to hold the interview.
“After so many years of being crushed, our sacred places are telling us it is time to reestablish our philosophical knowledge, and to teach our brothers, sisters, children and grandchildren, so that one day they can follow that route towards liberation,” he said.
Mayan prophecies also have something to say about this meeting, inscribed on the altars as the “return of the wise men” and expressed in dances from diverse groups.
“May they rise up, may they rise up, may not even one or two groups remain behind; may the dawn come, may the dawn arrive, may the people have peace and be happy,” says a famous phrase from the “Popul Vuh”, the sacred book of the Mayas, cited by Tata Cirilo.
The diversity of the elders’ colourful ceremonial dress, of their stones, necklaces and instruments at the top of the pyramids as they raise their arms to the heavens seemed to embody the ancient prophecies in a powerful image.
According to the Mayas, the era of darkness or “path of tears” ended on Aug. 16-17, 1987 of the western calendar and “13 ajau” of their own calendar, which signalled the beginning of the time of wisdom and light.
“My message for the world here in this beautiful place, but above all for the great scientists of Europe and the north is that they stop polluting our mountain, that they stop destroying our world, that they learn to live as our ancestors lived,” said Tata Cirilo.
The time for survival has arrived. And to face that challenge, the elders consider the question of the environment – in western terms – as one of the mainstays of their knowledge.
“One is all and all is one. Everything is the four basic elements: air, earth, fire and water,” added Mejillos Acarapi, the Aymara priest.
The sun slowly sank behind the pyramids. And holding hands in a giant circle that symbolised the coming together of knowledge, the elders said farewell to another day with their eyes shut, saying their silent prayers.
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AMERICAS: Indigenous Elders and Priests Make Prophecy Come True
Fabiana Frayssinet
- The ancient prophecy of the Hopi indigenous people from North America has been fulfilled: elders and priests from the entire continent, the keepers of ancestral wisdom, met for the first time in Central America, the “centre” alluded to in the prophecy.
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