The Secret of the Mystery Egg by Hohongwitutiwa

This is a repost from Hohongwitutiwa with permission. If you have inquiries, please contact me. ~ Alis Itlatol

Or – Puncuated Equilibrium – The Evolutionary Plan of the Great Spirit

What is being shared (on this blog) is for everyone, but even if just one person is helped, then it has been worth presenting.

Tutskwa I’qatsi,
We live in an age where certain truths have been lost to us. The knowledge of our Earth as a great living being, known to most native peoples, is one of the things pahanas do not remember or presently believe, yet it is true. The Hopi are one people who have retained many sacred truths once known in the past, some of which our Mother is now releasing to us, as strange as some of it may seem to what we have known.

Here is a post made by uuna –(Upaava’s Hopi father)– his own words not any new age mysticism as some have said. Many of these things have never been given out before; they cannot be found anywhere else on the Internet, in print, or anywhere. Only the Hopi initiated in these matters know about them. But you, and I, and all of us are now meant to know about certain things too. Whether we can believe in these things or not, whether we are ready for them or not, they will occur perhaps with the same difficulty in some places as I have sometimes had in sharing uuna’s giveaway.

So, here is another post by uuna in his own words; this one without the help of the Lakota friend to help “smooth his English.” It speaks of Time, and the birth of our Mother’s egg (The Mystery Egg the Hopi have sometimes mysteriously spoken about), and the coming of our Fifth World.

“Within the Solar System there is a very natural pattern of evolving with ones home planet that brings Gods creations to a higher state of being from Age to Age. In Hopi it is known as The Sacred Pattern of Migration which is depicted in The Sunflower Sand Painting of Tutskwa I’ qatsi. I will make a short introduction so that his meaning can be more easily understood as he has explained it to me. Then his own words directly:

Our Earth is a living breathing Entity. If She were not alive, we would not be alive; we are created and sustained by Her…Every planet is alive and although we cannot see life upon them, life exists at different stages of development.

What is happening upon and within our Earth and Her Core is very natural, these natural events that mankind calls “disasters” will continue to increase in frequency and intensity. It is not a punishment, it is not destruction leading to extinction, this is a Holy Event to come that has happened from Age to Age to bring us to this stage of evolution so near to our final state in the Fifth World.

The next and final step of evolving to a higher state of being with our Earth, physically and spiritually, is approaching. It will not matter what country a person was born in, what color of their skin or what culture one belongs to, this is our home planet and we are all children of this Earth that are and will face these events together. We will all be faced with a choice in our future. We are being warned to choose wisely, to choose the forward progression of Time and evolution, remaining within the natural process of Nature, always remaining and enduring with our Earth Mother.

The following are words shared by uuna:

“We think of our Earth Mother as a Sacred Bird. In every orbit She has been a different Bird. When She was in the first orbit, we were not yet man; we were not yet even simple creatures. We lived in this undeveloped state until a time of Purification came upon Her. The Great Bird laid an Egg. Inside the Earth Mother is hatching an Egg.

In every orbit She patiently hatches an Egg. When the Egg is ready to emerge, Purification is knocking on the door. What is this Egg? We had many names for this Egg and many “myths” about it. One “myth” was when it emerged in a village and caught two children and took the children back to the Underworld with it. The “myths” are meant to explain the Truth but sometimes they make it unclear because they give it an atmosphere of fantasy.

The “myths” are not really “myths”, they are a way of explaining Truth to a people before we have an understanding of science. The Truth has always been with us, science is a newcomer. They do not struggle against one another.

We are not aware of Earth Mother’s movement but She is always rushing around, (‘Itam Tuuwaqatsi qa navoti’yataqa hoyota niikyangw Tuuwaqatsi hoyota sutsep.) She is rotating (koruruta) around Her axis and She is revolving (qoqonlawu) around Tawa-Father-Sun, and also flies with the rest of the Solar System (Kokyangwuti) through space, all this running around causes movement within Her. This movement is called “differentiation” the meaning is that heavy material sinks and light material rises. The same thing happens when a man pans for gold, the gold sinks, also when a woman shakes Corn, the husks rise.

In the body of our Earth Mother heavy material sinks and light material rises. Metals sink downwards and they have formed an Iron Egg in Her center. This Iron Egg grows with every passing minute as differentiation continues because She does not stop hurrying around, we call Her Huurinwuti (hurrying around woman), and among the many other names She has. As long as Her motion continues, metal sinks towards Her center and Her Egg grows.

Pahana scientists call Her Egg, the Core of the Earth.

They know it exists, they know it is mostly iron, they argue among themselves about the nature of the Egg. Pahana scientists do not believe our Earth Mother is alive, to Pahana scientists She is just a “Planet”, not a Mother and Her Nohu is just a Ball of Iron of no importance. They do not know it will come out. They do not know it is this Egg, growing bigger every day, which causes our Mother’s motion to slow down, they do not know it is the growing Egg which causes all the weather changes we now witness. Maybe if they knew the Egg was going to be hatched soon they would work even faster to build a space station and to “save” themselves from Purification.”…

….”We must try to give Truth to every man who is come with hands open and speaking “I am looking for Truth.” I hear many Times there is many ways to Taiowa. Mongko (Law of Life) speaking there is *one-way to Taiowa. Mongko speaking there is *one only True way. We can say many ways lead to Mongko but when facing Mongko many men stop to go forward because Mongko can make afraid to people. Mongko is standing like Skeleton (Masau-Father-Death) speaking “You looking for your star brother to come and stop you from dying? You are afraid to give back your Life to One who is giving that Life to you? You are not trusting that Life is return to you again in even better form? Go away and be looking always at Tokpela and hoping people from other World can save you from Death. You come to Mongko you must accept Masau.”

People thinking another World people not having to die! They are hoping another World people can take them to their stranger World when Time is coming for Tuuwaqatsi to have suffering and have pain. Good to stay with Tuuwaqatsi if she is feeling good and giving to them all good things and not giving to them any problems! Problems coming they don’t want Her! Himu Sinom is not afraid of natural matters. We are all afraid of first Time come into this World? Ask to any woman having child: that matter is easy when your having that baby? Woman is not afraid of having baby then why are we men afraid of Death? We all must accept to every natural matter. We all must stay with our Mother when Her Pain is coming. What son or daughter is run away when the Mother is suffering?

Pahana scientists know that with every passing day the speed of the Earth Mother’s motion is slowed down. This is because of the heavy material sinking down into the center of Earth Mother. When Her Egg is too heavy for Her to keep in Her womb, it will come out. We can understand when a woman has a baby, we can understand when a Bird lays an egg, but it is not easy to accept that our Earth Mother is also busy hatching out an Egg. Why? Why do we think She cannot give birth? Maybe just because it is beyond our human minds to believe She is alive, as we are.

To Himu Sinom, Earth Mother is Land and Life, She is Alive and Her Iron Egg is Alive and She will soon lay Her Egg. Huru’ingwuuti No’y ilti noq hiisave Huru’ingwuuti Nohu’at Tiita. The Iron Egg of Earth Mother will Emerge at the Time of Purification, (Pay Huru’ng Wuuti Nohu’at Naavotsiwni kuyvani aasatve.) it is for this reason Great Purification is called Nohu Na’uyi’yta (The Secret of the Hidden Egg).

No one can deny the Mystery Egg in the Womb of our Earth Mother! No one can deny Her motion is slowing down. No one can deny that we dig up the bones of our early bodies because something BIG happened to us in the past and we, and all our buildings, were buried in the ground. No one can deny that Time as we know it will soon end, pahana scientists already know Time is not what we read on our clocks and calendars.

Long before pahana scientists knew our Earth Mother had an iron Core, Native Americans knew about Her Iron Mystery Egg, which would one day be hatched. And now I speak these words, one day soon pahana scientists may learn the secrets of Time, but long before they learn this, Native American Indians honor the Directions.

Our Mother keeps Her secrets well, and close to Purification, She asks us to release the great news of Her upcoming Birthing.”

naawakna nihqe kyaptsita,
upaava Hohongwitutiwa

The Casting Call: part one - Winona LaDuke or Lady Gaga ?

In Bear's Muses previous post "The Voice and Sound of our Dreamseeds and Visions", a dreamseed was given as a call for grassroots' media action and collaboration…will it find fertile soil within the human spirit to 

Be a Prayer in Motion?

In the traditional way of "call and response" spoken by all story-tellers, poets and artists…this is Bear's Muse about Sam Markwell's post in Ja Jicarita : http://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/lady-gaga-spaceport-america-and-new-mexicos-colonial-present/

From a Bear's perspective this all adds up to deafened definitions lost in a language that no longer has verbs. ~ Bearsense 11.12.2013

A Casting Call

Standing Ones

drought's fallen one's

Cedar and Pinón's 

heart fire's smoke

weaving our Life's tales

telling of days to come

Mother Earth is crying

for us to make a unified choice

who will come?

to shatter the illusion

above, over, through, under

beyond

the din of our discomfort

a raging storm on the horizon

ignored, numbed

by celebrity glory

for spaceports

the wealthy's playground

of distractions for the masses

sheep being led and mis-led

like walking dead

on a caravan

to Mother Earth's beautiful

embryonic space 

This is your casting call:

 Ancient Ones

Mother Earth's children

Midwives

Healers, Farmers

Truth-sayers, Musicians

Media Wizards

Mechanical re-toolers

rubble's re-Builders

Artists of Life

 from every tradition

if not now when?

Let's make the biggest

People's gathering ever seen,

broadcast from our hearts

to every living Being

will this be seen, heard, and felt

above over under through

and beyond

the din

of mass media's

pablum?

Your choice…

to stay on the shore

or enter the Spirit flow 

of Water, Air, Earth and Fire's

Ceremony of Creation

and Be the

Prayer in Motion

ama ~ 11.12.2013

am only one women, 

no-one in particular, 

who is doing the best she can, 

like you are, 

to live a simple life with Mother Earth, 

by the original instructions. 

Do any famous people hear us?… you have the connections, the phone numbers, the personal relationships, to call the famous and grassroots filmmakers, media producers, radio broadcasters, livestream techs, Indigenous spiritual leaders, environmental big wigs, all the youth Artists of Life too… to come and make big and small concerts to fund viable, realistic means for transition to traditional and healthy inter-connected Life Ways, and to teach the colonial culture how to live with Mother Earth…we are at the crossroads and have been, longer than i am old. Fact: without food and energy sovranty…we can not get out of the matrix.

We need something so beautiful, that it will either cross all of our spirits over (what better place to let go the human form than in Ceremony) or shake people awake not by a tornado, but by the sheer magnitude of Love's Beauty.

Winona La Duke's recent broadcast, speaking at Idle No More's 1 year anniversary is the heart and spirit of sacred intelligence, :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNVFOjcMEs&feature=share&list=PLxvZZiAc4-TqdzrQHNBj8wPCucHYydfQ3

… how many are going to hear her? 10, 20, 50 maybe even 150 thousand…will we pray for millions, or is it already yesterday's news? There are 350 million in the US alone ! She is not the only Brilliant Light guiding and inspiring us….each and everyone has some gift for the giving.

Let us amplify the love juice.

Thank you for listening.

ama ~ 11.12.13

The Voice and Sound of our Dreamseeds and Visions

There is a vision...

that keeps coming to me in my dreams ... 

There are 2 parts of it that are being dreamed,

one is Ceremonial and the other is about

the right use of media - 

Our airwaves and bandwidths

by which all of us are inner-connected without technology,

are so polluted by mass media.

We understand that our prayers with water, being the most powerful energizer and conduit, is also being polluted on a massive scale and we as drops of water in this great ocean of sentient resonance, with clarity of mind-heart-womb

can do something very powerfully to heal water, air, earth, fire and spirit. 

Here is the dreamseed vision:

This dream is being energized, 

by our our sing, dance, pray

in every way and in every action 

we are Being

the Prayer in Motion, 

living Ceremony,

love we share in every moment

of every day,

with water, air, earth, fire and spirit

for All Life, each other 

and future generations

In the dream I keep seeing

circles of women all over Mother Earth 

gathering gathering gathering

day after day

month after month

year after year

something like we have been doing for decades

but there is something different here 

in this personal, planetary and cosmic dream

The women are very wise

from all nations

in midwifery and birthing

in the ways

of Ceremony's inner and inter 

relation with Creation 

some might call these

"Birthing Ceremonies"

and all the Peoples gathered in these

circles of Ceremony

children and mothers in the center

grandmothers around them

young and old wise men

in the outer circle 

providing love nourishment

and protection

they are energizing and magnetizing

via the ancient inner-connected

hywaves of dialogue

with the Source of All Life 

then.....

 in the dream I see

big stadiums filled for "concerts"

gatherings in parks and nature areas

gatherings in sanctuary camps

with People who are drawn there

because of some "famous artist or musician"

but they come being drawn

away from the commercialized din

of fabrications

to listen and re-member how to

sing dance pray

in a sacred way

they are spoon fed by the Truthsayers

the artists, musicians and Elders

environmental, Treaty Rights Leaders 

and Visionaries 

Truth and Love is being broadcast and filmed

technologically .... 

wave upon wave of love prayers

wave upon wave

energizing healing clarity

clears the air waves

heals the waters

the resonance rises and rises

breaking the mirrors of illusion

and in the end of the dream

every harmful machine

comes to a screeching halt

and every person with harm in their intent

can no longer use tools for harm

because our love is that strong

the din of commercialization

domestication, oppression, and genocide

stops

every colonial government stops

mass-media is silenced

and we no longer need to broadcast anything

because there is a stillness 

a love

and all over the world

humans can hear again

listen to the resonance of Creation

the first form of form

re-member who we are

we go home to our families

communities and tribes

Mother Earth sighs

and we let her rest and birth again

rejuvenation begins

we all understand...there is no more resistance

to Being Love and Truth

and walk gently upon her

with no fear of the movements of her skin

necessary to heal the wounds humans made

we have no fear of each other

and build from the old, 

our tribal village sanctuaries

living in the 

One Great Peace

So that is a dream that is recurring for me. 

Does the part about the media

ask us

What else is possible?

on these media platforms?

We are all taking to ourselves ... 

am laughing and smiling about this

you Being another me

and we all agree

it is time to put on a different movie.

yet, are we reaching those that are unawares?

is this important for them to hear our voices?

feel the love and wake them from the numbing?

or is it better to let the sleeping masses sleep?

do we need their participation?

i do not know, however war and Mother Earth

and her children's destruction 

is way beyond, beyond boring

and some women are saying

we have waited for 5,125 years for this today's day, 

to put on a different movie, 

will you come 

and live Love with us?

for me,  i want to give every minute of every day in 

creating and living Beauty Way with you.

...all each one of us has, is Now

to do something that will be so magnetizing and energizing

to every heart and spirit, that they will not want to watch TV

they will not even want to discuss the insanity

rather only be aware of it's 

dis-mantling and decolonization

they will want to be a part of Creations Beauty 

and live the original instructions

in how we are made naturally 

on the inner and interconnected hywaves

living breathing loving in all ways, always.

I am only one Being that has traveled far to ask technological media savvy communities or people if they can build a network to connect all the individual grassroots networks out there

big enough to clean the airwaves, bandwidths...

with our sing dance pray, artists, musicians,  Truthsayers, Elders and Peoples.

We know the power of thoughts that are inner connected to the heart ...

am wondering about how this dream might raise this up to another level

with inner-connections to  "Birthing Ceremonies"

A few months ago, my sister and I were in Ceremony together

and saw the same vision -

a breeze came

the Ancestors in the breeze's breath of life

surrounded us and showed us the

Mariposa Dance

it was a dance of eternal life

it was as if past present and future

blended together

and all nations were there

this dance may be called a "Birthing Ceremony"

all of our most powerful ceremonies

Life Birth

I will write more about this Mariposa vision ...

and maybe women will want to start these ceremonies 

all over the world

different days, different ways ...

yet the importance

of creating the waves with the same intention

day after day

month after month

if we remember... 

Wovoka stepped out of the matrix 

and did something different...

this time, 

this is coming from ALL the Women ...

in ALL ways they dreamseed visions ...

and everyone is coming in answer to their call

Idle No More, Be the Prayer in Motion

Frontline caregiving and protection of our Water

Planting community garden's

Healing and Teaching ...

Creating Camps and Earth Sanctuaries

there are so many Ways .... 

Dream, vision, what else is possible, and Live it

Be with the Ones you Love ...

if there is anything here that inspires you....live it

if there is anyway we can help each other ...live it

we are here for each other 

if we  are out an about ...please know that 

we are dreamseeding creationing

the Mariposa Dance

~ ama

Kawok 11, 11.05.2013

http://youtu.be/Tve-aVTwW1Y

http://youtu.be/sD0rcYxEkaw

http://youtu.be/Ggu6-_TWyXM

Wakan Tanka's Oyate Wakan

Sweet hearts

what Love we have become?

for we see within our eyes 

every Star's light

glistening within

every leaf, branch

and blade of grass

the dewlight

upon dawn's flowering 

Beauty Way 

with Mother Earth, Father Sky

from the Womb of Creationing

of which all our children are made of

  

thunder lightning's spark

and ocean wave's

salty sweet caress

birthing with

every breath's  prayer song

within Love's children

Sweet hearts

what Love we have become

seeing only 

Wakan Tanka

in everyone

yet we walk in wu and man 

and All Life's form

for we feel no other

than Truth's touch 

of the beauty of Presence

that is within us

re-membering 

who we are

walking together

Dreamseeding the Mystic Nohu's

original instructions

for the future generations 

of Oyate Wakan

~ ama 110113

Dream No Dream: unraveling

Dream

Dreaming, 

Dreamseeds, 

the Sentience of Creationing 

that some how gets lost 

in the "oneness" 

of westernized language, thoughts 

and interpretations 

of eastern or Turtle Island 

traditions and culture 

when it is said in english 

that everything is an illusion or "dream"... 

like they are the same

the english language can be so mundane

in it's attempts to get out 

of it's cultural matrix's

limitations 

yet, from what "awareness" 

does the Buddha Nature, 

the Nagual, 

Heyoka,  

or anyone, 

dialogue, see, 

 awareness, 

Being

the expression of

the living Sentience of Creation?  

Wakan Tanka, is not a diety, god/dess ... 

this is beyond all matrixes 

the "Sentience of Creation", is beyond these words

The Dreaming 

within and is everything

Mitakuye Oyas'in

stillness and resonance

of Sentient Creationing's

Love

beyond the body's definition of Soul or Spirit

beyond mind-think's ego definition of I-Me-We, 

beyond heart's-emotions of Yail's Love/Pain, 

beyond science's definition of light and energy

beyond religion's definitions of gods - goddesses, and hierarchies

beyond life and death

beyond the beyond

beyond the beyond within

it is the unknowable creationing

we are this

we are made of this, 

Love

We seek to find Truth, 

Honesty, Humility, Humor, 

Courage, Respect, Healing, 

Compassion, Peace, Generosity, 

etc., 

that are 

natural characteristics 

within 

this we say is 

Love

Love

from where this Prayer in Motion 

that is within 

living Love's expression 

written here like a medicine for

Being Love

Beloved

without the veils of "identity's" masks

of which we willingly adopt 

or are unwillingly imposed

skins of domestication

indoctrination

we can

shed and compost

to Be 

living Prayer in Motion's

Heartbeat resonant energy

sing dance prays 

lives Beauty Way and protects

our Life Ways 

with Mother Earth, Father Sun and Cosmos

earth, air, fire and water

freely given to the wu-ma-Being

Dreamseeding

sing dance pray

the Alchemy of Creation

we call Ceremony

for the greater good

of All Life

and future generations

ama ~ 10.30.2013

Dreaming is a Life Way, to Be Dreaming is how we are naturally made, 

a "way of Being".

 Four Direction Chakana image by

artist Juan Bautista Contreras

Generosity, Giving Freely

When Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks of human's apathy for Mother Earth
"I know that it has been proven scientifically that when you give without expecting anything back - your whole body instantly assumes a healthy path, your whole blood or DNA, if you will, changes... and every molecule is effectively positive including a clearing attitude. I feel those who have not given back what was taken away from those who gave freely are at an unhealthy risk that is why the land - Unci Maka is being treated this way. It has become an individual right to apathy and not a relationship to all the land and to the people who are still connected to the land. I think its the worse thing to do to the people who are at peace with Mother Earth, it is the worse thing to do is to disturb Mother Earth's peace.  Apathy is just another form of recycled greed."

.....it touches the core and essence of my feminine-ness....and touches upon my inability to fully rationalize from my mind, or give words to the insanity of violence toward the Love which is freely given from the Essence and Nature of our Mother Earth.

Is apathy a symptom of spiritual immaturity?
Does apathy condone the rape, robbing and pillaging of
our Mother Earth? or Her children?
How does apathy treat our People's when we are the voice of Mother Earth, a voice some still can not hear?
Is this voice of Love for our Mother and her children, disregarded, ignored, discriminated against?
Does apathy proliferate the notion that it is a natural state of being for humans to be brutal, objectify and attempt to completely subjugate Her and All Life? .... because this Love is freely given by our Mother, do we have no responsibility to give freely to Her and each other?
If giving freely to each other is the "new economy", what happens when more than one needs is taken without giving ...oh yeah, Great Mystery will take of it?...is this another apathetic way of not taking responsibility for our own actions, of disrespecting that each of us have different skills and gifts that make the hoop of community healthy?
Does apathy keep us in bondage to money and milking resources?

Apathy may be another word for why the Kogi call the western culture "Little Brother" who is not spiritually mature yet.

I read a Sutra written by Shakyamuni Buddha. I tell it to you here in my own words.
In this sutra the Buddha was Tara who is the feminine aspect of the enlightened Buddha Nature. Tara is walking through the beautiful lands of the Ganges. A hoard of drunken slovenly men on horseback, riding fast and belligerently surround Her and capture Her.... The 'leader' says to Her: "Ahh you are a beautiful thing, good to satisfy me and my hungry and lusty men."                
Tara says, "do as you choose".
The hoard of men, jump off their horses and make camp. They light a fire, drink more liquor and become rowdier and more foul mouthed toward Her. Then the 'leader' says, " We will have our way with you, and you will satisfy all my men."                                          
From Tara's satchel she pulls a silk blanket and lays it down upon the earth. She then says " Come, do as as you will" and proceeds to lie down. She gives herself to each and every man, the grace and essence of her Love permeating all around, flowers bloom, birds sing, the grasses that were scorched by the men's campfire turned green again. The Nature and Essence of Her Being, Her Love, profoundly touches these men.                                                                        
The karma of each man that took which she gave freely, became her devotees for ALL eternity. The teaching of the Sutra is that these men's karma is to become enlightened because one can not do harm or take from the Buddha/Tara Nature which is Free. Instead of the law of "cause and effect" being that if you do harm, you will receive harm.... rather if you do harm to another, you do harm to your Self and your true Nature is to become enlightened...therefore you have to grow up and become responsible for who you are....you will become devotees to that which you harm.....there is no way out of having to wake up, it is your Nature.                                            
Another way to say this is that "medicine" needs no protection, it's very Nature is far more powerful, infinite, mysterious, than anyone...we are specks of sand, fractals of sentient light... and it is for this reason we walk with awe, respect, honesty, devotion, humility, courage....etc.    

When I contemplate what Tawahongva said to me when I asked him why he could not help the man who was being driven crazy and depressed ... He said, "The man must set right what he has done and set right his relationship within his Self. Healing can only be received by the capacity to receive it for healing is free and comes from Massau, not me the man."
                                      
and when I contemplate  the Lakota version of this, about White Buffalo Calf Woman who turns the lusty greedy men who did not recognize her Wakan Nature to dust....what is the Wakan Nature that has the power to do this?  This is the icke wicasa Nature, the original instructions, it is how mi abuela says we are made,  the Way all of us to be able to walk, be, do ..this that is our birthlife....of Mitakuye Oyas'in - this Love that is the Sentience of All Life. When we know our true Nature, all the aspects of our true Nature...Truth, Love, Honesty, Courage, Humility, Wisdom, Healing, Responsibility, Compassion, Generosity, etc are naturally embodied.... like what Albert White Hat said in reference to the Canupa: "If I had known what it was when I picked it up, I would not have, but now that I have, I can not live without it."

Consider that Mother Earth's Sentient Love will have her Way with us, stay true to Her, we are Her children. She is Sentient, alive and has Her own Dream and Reality.

Thank you for listening to my muses this morning.
~ Alis Itlatol
Thank you Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Prayers and Muses: Language and Culture

Image by Mutha-Wit

Making cornmeal and tobacco prayer offerings to the rising sun this morning... from the language of Spirit that is an energetic Breath of Lifeflow, like Water, that gives shape to culture and is inner relational with All Life.

Praying about the Prophecies, about the future generations ...what does this mean when the Prophecies of the Hopi say that "we will live as One People again and have a common language"?  

My Hopi dad said to me "There is only one language of Massau (Great Mystery), and everyone can speak it."  This is what I was praying about this morning... and praying about loving someone who speaks a different language than my People …we are from different tribes ...what is this language of Spirit? How do we cross this bridge? I was raised with my culture and language, he was raised with his culture and language ...so we learn learn little by little through going to ceremony together, sharing feasts and cultural activities, and learning words and phrases of each other's languages ...these "doings" that speak the language of prayer, song, Life Ways that guide us to live a good life with All Life and each other....my Heart has no boundary for the love I feel ... so while we speak the bridge language of english for common things to get done... what is this culture and language that we are learning from each other? 

Spirit does not see you as color, shape, size, gender, language, money, property, prestige....Spirit only sees and feels the Beauty in how Great Mystery creates you. While we cry for the preservation of our languages, we also create divisions in our minds separating who can understand and who can not, because we only listen with our human ears ... I remember my Lakota Uncle who said, "Learn the songs and prayers in the old way - by showing up for the ceremonies. We have no books, or tapes, so you show up and participate".  

When I was growing up anyone who showed up, willing to learn, with a good heart, was taught by listening, observing, experiencing and participating. After a while the Elders would ask the youngers, to sing a song, take care of some part of the doing, or take time to talk with us, answer questions, give guidance. The Elders were generous, protective before and after the "1978 American Indian Freedom of Religion Act", and never turned anyone away… yet these Life ways were and are not a "religion", they are Life Ways.

I remember one time some men showed up from the village and they were drunk and angry and hurting. We were clearing the area for a new Sweatlodge, Ceremonial arbor and camp area. These men said we could not be there, it wasn't our land, they did not care if the Tribal Council said it was ok to be there, and to leave. Our Elder at the moment was somewhere else getting some more tools. These men were very angry. Our small group of youngers, immediately laid down our shovels and rakes, and formed a circle. I could feel the tension rising in the young men of our circle, in response to the angry words of exclusivity that the other men were saying. So I began to pray. The angry men, hushed …it did not matter what language I was praying in, it was the same language spoken to the trees, the animals, All Life, the Water, Air, Fire and Mother Earth and Father Sky. Then after my Prayer, another person in our circle prayed, and then another, and so on. When the prayers were all made, our Elder "appeared", and went over to the the angry men, and told them they were welcome to come to help prepare for Ceremony, however they would need to sober up. The angry men left. After everything was prepared for Ceremony, only one returned to come watch, as we sang, danced and prayed for four days without food or water.

If we are to continue like my Elders, to teach others, language, Ceremony, Life Ways to anyone who is willing to learn, and to show up to participate, will this make us weaker or able to understand one another better, or know that we are more the same than different? Or that maybe we teach others so that they can remember who they are. Imagine if, like my Elders we do not care anymore what they "look" like, because we are not Great Mystery, we do not know where our ancestors decide to be born, or to what family, or color, or gender. Colonialism has destroyed so many matrilineal linages because of trading women and girls, and then there were boarding schools, and imaginary boarders and enforced prisoner of war camps, keeping us apart from one another...arranged marriages, or marriages made because it was thought the children might have a better chance of surviving. Will the pain and suffering from loss of language and culture be healed? .... in the end when Mother Earth decides the beginning - end - and beginning of her cycles...who will be the children of the future generations that will be able to "recognize" each other beyond stereotypes, and colonialism that has torn the fabric of how we once were relationally? 

Will they know and choose to be Mitakuye Oyasin? 

Will they know this language of Spirit? 

Will they listen and see each other in Spirit and who they are beyond the ordinary senses? 

Will they no longer acquiesce their spiritual and cultural sovranty to politicians and ideas about what is means to be made as a two-legged? 

With gratitude for listening to my musings and prayers this morning about language, culture and loving someone who does not speak my People's language, nor I his...yet somewhere in the Spirit of Ceremony, Life Ways and Heart, is a prayer for the One Great Peace to be realized. 

~ Alis-Itlatol      9.29.2013