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While visiting Canada, the Pope fasted and entered into a sweat legendary Sioux Elder Black Elk having a prophetic vision of lodge ceremony with the Dakota, and congratulated them for racial unity, a rainbow lodge with the Four Nations together, and keeping their traditions and ceremonies. also spoke of the Hopi prophecy of Red and White brothers work- Deer Man interpreted a recent crop circle design as containing a _ing together. highly relevant message. This crop circle consists of five concen- The chief Spiritual Elder of all the Maori people of Aotearoa tric circles. The first four circles are like orbit paths around a cen- (New Zealand), Mac Wiremu Ruka, accepted Standing EIk's invi- tral sun, with a planet-like 'bead’ embedded in each orbit circle tation to share the ancient truths and prophecies of his people. except the third one. The outermost ring is a chain of densely- From the age of three, Elder Ruka was taught the genealogies, packed 'beads' of varying sizes. The entire crop circle is the secrets and incantations of the cosmic and Earth realms. A spe- Circle of Life. The four inner circles represent the traditional cial star alignment in 1988 told the old Maori Grandmothers that Four Nations of humanity: White, Black, Red and Yellow. The the time had arrived to make public the Old Stories which had smallest circle near the nucleus represents the White Race, but the been kept hidden for centuries. Elder Ruka was the one designat- elliptical orbit indicates that it is out of balance. Spirit gave the ed to speak. The Maori Elder related accounts of the star origin of White Race responsibility for fire, but white man forgot his his people. In a moving, candle-lit ritual, he created a twelve- responsibility when he created the nuclear bomb. The second woman ceremonial circle to speak for Spirit and set the proper orbit is the Black Race, which has responsibility for water. But vibration for creating such awareness. the Black Race has forgotten this and, as a result, the waters are Choctaw Medicine Man Panther (Preston Scott) told of how he contaminated, causing cancer. The third orbit, with 'planet bead’ was designated to follow the path of the heyoka (sacred trickster). missing, signifies the Red Race which is responsible for the Earth. One day as a boy he was being walked to school by his mother Its 'bead' is missing because it still walks with the Tunkashilas when a dark stormcloud came up from the west. His mother told (Grandfathers, spiritual guides). The fourth orbit is the Yellow him to run to his grandfather's house, but he only made it as far as Race, whose responsibility is the air. But Asian-sponsored facto- his grandfather's yard when a lightning bolt struck so close to him ries continue to pollute the air. Deer Man commented that "we that the heat and energy flipped him over. He landed on his feet, have brought these imbalances on ourselves. The Red Race has still running, and went up on his grandfather's porch. Being responsibility for the land, but cannot struck by lightning means Spirit des- do so because of herbicides, acid rain ignation as heyoka. and underground nuclear testing." As an adult, Panther was climbing a Spirit told Deer Man that the other hill one day and received a vision of races were to have followed the red A special star alignment in 1988 three Grandfathers. He was told that way of life too, but they lost it. The told the old Maori Grandmothers he was going to go north to the outermost circle represents the Star Lakota land, where they would give Nations. "The Star Nations are here that the time had arrived to make him a foundation of spiritual knowl- to help us." The Earth was out of i i i edge to take back to his people, balance, and is rebalancing its tilt. public the Old Stories which had because the Choctaw had lost their "We have to help the Earth come been kept hidden for centuries. spiritual ways. Now he is seeing spir- back into balance. Time as you ituality rising among the Choctaw. know it is coming to an end, sooner An inipi (sweat lodge) ceremony than you think. There will not be for a Sun Dancer was led by Panther cars or TVs." He said that the on the night of 15th June. As we Grandfathers taught him that we are coming to the end of the prayed inside the totally-dark lodge, there appeared two rectangu- Fourth World and are about to enter the Fifth World. (This con- lar-shaped lights, about the size of bricks, dancing near the upper curs with similar Hopi prophecies.) "It will take Nine Worlds eastern wall. Panther commented that there were six spirits inside before we get to the Spirit World." the lodge. After the lodge we learned from others waiting outside Hopi Grandfather Titus, Keeper of the Prophecy Tablets, adopt- that, during the sweat lodge, a UFO travelled high across the sky. ed Roy Little Sun. Speaking on behalf of his grandfather, Little At first it looked like a satellite, but then it stopped and gyrated in Sun told of a solar system planetary alignment sequence moving geometric patterns of flight. into place, which is powerful for the Earth as the outer planets Gary Holy Bull, a Lakota Medicine Man, is a carrier of the Elk line up with the planets near Earth. "The power of the heavens medicine bundle. His spiritual path was deepened when he steps down to the Earth. The New Moon [coinciding with the almost died while undergoing brain surgery. He had an out-of- Conference conclusion on 16th June] is an opening of a gate of body-experience where he met an old Indian medicine man Star Knowledge." Little Sun said that the Star Knowledge adjusting energy particles coming out of people's bodies. Conference is like a medicine wheel; its participants will radiate Holy Bull told of seeing UFOs flying over Bear Butte, a vol- out to spread the information to others, "taking the teachings of canic peak in the Black Hills and the sacred heart of the Sioux the Star People and applying them to human interactions". Nation. Then he spoke about the Star Nation Altars—the sacred Norbert Running, a Lakota Medicine Man, was one of the first _ritual-object altars kept by certain designated spiritual leaders as to participate in the revived Sun Dance of modern times. He shrines where knowledge of the Star People is gathered, kept and chastised latter-day Native American "neo-traditionalists” for honoured. The Lakota Elder said that Star Nation Altars send up being contaminated by Christian missionaries, believing in devils to the heavens a blue light which the Star People see as a beacon. and making up bureaucratic religious rules. Norbert Running said He told of performing a ceremony for a woman, during which a that most Indians on the reservations believe in the natural way of — Star Elder came in and landed nearby. The ET was tall and grey, spirituality. He urged everyone to "cultivate Spirit Guides to help and had large eyes. Holy Bull did the calling-in song, and the you in the life path", and added that he'd learnt most of what he Tunkashilas (Grandfather Spirits) came in, went over and held the knows in the yuwipi (spirit calling-in) ceremony. He told of the Star Elder. The Star Elder told them that Mother Earth is dying NEXUS 69 DECEMBER 1996 - JANUARY 1997