The Flying Shields of the Hopi Kachinas
by Gary A. David in 2008, from MondoVista Website
Ancient flying machines have long been a tradition of many cultures across the globe.
Venerable Hindu texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata describe airships called Vimanas that were even used for battle.
The Vimanas – Library of Rickandria
Among the hieroglyphs on the wall of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian temple at Abydos are depictions of what appear to be modern airplanes and helicopters.
Grooved stone discs found in caves on the Chinese-Tibetan border tell of an extraterrestrial race called the Dropas whose spacecraft fell to Earth 12,000 years ago.
The Dropa – Library of Rickandria
The Hopi Indians have inhabited three large mesas in northern Arizona for over a thousand years.
Their legends also refer to aerial vehicles, perhaps from Orion.
These magical flying shields called paatuwvota existed in the Third World, a previous epoch destroyed by an immense flood.
This was a time when great cities and trade routes were built, and civilization was flourishing.
In an address delivered to the United Nations, Thomas Banyacya of the Hopi Coyote Clan said:
“The people invented many machines and conveniences of high technology, some of which have not yet been seen in this age.”
We, of course, recognize this startling description as echoing Atlantis.
In one legend the flying shield is associated with Sotuknang, the Hopi sky god.
Apparently, a devastating flood had destroyed Palatkwapi, “the red city to the south” possibly located in the red rock country near Sedona, Arizona.
Shortly afterwards a brother named Tiwahongva and his sister Tawiayisnima, who were forgotten in the chaos and left behind by their fleeing parents, set out on a journey to find them.
In the evening they decided to make camp.
They were just opening their bundle for dinner when they heard a great roar overhead.
The children were very frightened, wondering what this strange thing could be.
The brother held his sister tightly to his breast as a fantastic being descended from the heavens.
He was wearing a costume that glittered like ice (metallic spacesuit?) while his head and face shone like a star.
He spoke:
“Do not be afraid.
My name is Sotuknang.
Because of my sympathy for your plight, I have come to help you.
Get on my paatuwvota and let us be on our way.”
He then took them on his flying shield up into the sky so that they could see for many miles around.
Feeding the hungry children, ripe melons, he told them that they must have faith in him and in his teachings that would later arrive through their dreams.
Finally, he landed a short distance from the village in which their mother and father had settled, bid the young one’s farewell, and flew up again into the clouds.
Forever grateful to the sky god, the brother and sister walked into the village to be reunited with their parents.
Because the Hopis had no such thing as a saucer, flying or otherwise, they named it after the cultural accouterment closest to that shape, namely, the warrior’s shield.
The word tuwvota specifically signifies this type of shield. Oddly, the concept of war is connected in Hopi ideology with the stars.
The use of tuwvota rather than the more common word for ‘disk’ or ‘circle’ thus suggests a celestial origin for the paatuwvota
Since the Hopi term paa means ‘water’, paatuwvota possibly refers to the expanding concentric rings in water.
This might be a metaphorical description for the way the peculiar airborne device appeared to function.
The related word patuka, or ‘spindle’, may also describe the shield’s spinning motion.
In addition, the prefix pa- denotes wonder or awe.
For the people of the desert, water equals wonder, but pa- perhaps suggests the reaction to this extraordinary means of transportation.
The tradition of the flying shield also appears in rock art.
The photo below is of an ancient petroglyph, or rock carving, found near Winslow, Arizona, apparently showing a triangular craft.
In his book Mexico Mystique, Frank Waters, a non-Indian expert on the Hopis, writes:
“On Second Mesa near Mishongnovi an ancient petroglyph depicts a dome-shaped object resting on an arrow which represent travel through space, and the head of a Hopi maiden who represents pristine purity.
As the Hopis believe that other planets are inhabited, this petroglyph represents a paatuwvota or a ‘flying shield’ similar to a ‘flying saucer’ that came here in the Beginning.
So now at the End the sacred ones will arrive from another planet, said to be Venus, by flying saucers.
Many Hopi traditionalists recently have reported seeing flying saucers, all piloted by beings they call kachinas.”
Mexico mystique: the coming sixth world of consciousness – Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)
Some readers may be familiar with the wooden kachina dolls that the Hopis carve. (See photo.)
Kachinas are not gods per se but spirits that act as mediators between gods and humans.
They may take the form of any animal, plant, celestial body, or otherworldly creature.
During the spring and early summer, the Hopis perform a ceremonial cycle of masked kachina dances as a plea for rain and the general well-being of the tribe.
Much like the fallen angels (or the Watchers) of the Bible (see Genesis 6:1-4), the kachinas were sometimes known to mate with Hopi women.
This prefigures the contemporary theme of alien abduction for the purpose of reproduction.
One Hopi myth tells of a young bride who accompanies her handsome Kana kachina husband back to her Second Mesa village of Mishongnovi on a flying shield.
“As the shield lifted off, the kachinas all gave out a boisterous yell.
The spectacle was incredible; every sort of kachina conceivable was present.
All of a sudden as the couple flew along, flashes of lightning were visible in the air and the rumble of thunder could be heard.
When the shield rose higher, drizzle began to fall.
The kachinas were now accompanying them…
[Her] parents had headed to the edge of the mesa at this time to look out. Looking down from the rim of the mesa, they saw an incredible number of people coming across the plain.
To their great amazement all were kachinas, singing and crying out their calls in a pandemonium.”
This passage is taken from a book called Earth Fire: A Hopi Legend of the Sunset Crater Eruption co-authored by Ekkehart Malotki, a white professor of languages at Northern Arizona University, and Michael Lomatuwayima, a Hopi from the Third Mesa shrine-village of Hotevilla.
The Kana kachina is associated with the volcanic eruption starting in 1064 AD that created the now-extinct Sunset Crater located near the San Francisco Peaks.
Another sixty miles farther northeast a large rectangular rock below the village of Mishongnovi is also known as ‘the house of the Kana kachina.’
As the entourage advanced from the ‘kachina’ peaks toward Second Mesa, it bore a huge quantity of corn and melons on their backs as gifts for the Hopis.
This diverse group of divine messengers must have been a stunningly beautiful sight. In fact, the Hopis sometimes refer to kachinas as ‘the beautiful creatures.’
This designation emphasizes not only their esthetically pleasing appearance but also their role as actual entities in a kinship system.
Long ago the kachinas were adopted into the clans along with various plants and animals during the migrations that took place after the Hopi emergence from the Underworld — the Third World previously mentioned.
Their presence had clearly been physical or tangible as opposed to supernatural or ethereal. In other words, their influence was once felt directly on a material level.
As time went on, however, social and religious corruption — a recurring motif in Hopi thought — forced these bizarre but benevolent ‘people’ to abandon the American Southwest.
From that period to the present, kachinas appear for the most part only in their spirit forms.
Some Hopis believe that kachinas still maneuver these mysterious aircraft. In his book The Terra Papers, the Hopi/Apache author Robert Morning Sky describes how his grandfather and five other men were camping in the desert in August of 1947, shortly after the infamous Roswell incident, when a flying disk streaked across the night sky and crashed.
Robert Morning Sky – Library of Rickandria
From the wreckage they recovered a silvery alien, unconscious but still alive, whom they named the Star Elder.
After they nursed it back to health, the ET then telepathically described by means of a crystal the galactic war raging above which had downed its spacecraft.
This X-Files material with a Native American twist remains unconfirmed.
Unexplained sightings continue, however.
In the summer of 1970 hundreds of UFOs were seen about 125 miles southwest of the Hopi villages near the town of Prescott, Arizona.
On the evening of March 13th, 1997, in the same vicinity a delta-winged craft perhaps as large as a mile across with lights on its leading edges was spotted drifting silently overhead before speeding off toward the south.
It later became known as the Phoenix Lights.
In 1998 the radio talk-show host Art Bell interviewed two Hopi elders who stated that their very distant ancestors knew how to travel to other planets.
They also said that during the End Times, we would be visited by ‘people outside’ the Earth who have an advanced technology.
Many Hopi wisdom keepers believe that the increased presence of flying shields signals the end of the Fourth World, or our current era. In conjunction with Biblical prophecies of the apocalypse, the kachinas or star elders may be trying to warn us of this dire state of affairs.
By listening to these entities throughout the ages, the Hopis living on their isolated mesas have long known the global fate that now seems imminent.
Some of the signs and portends are in the skies.
We need only look up.
About the Author
Gary A. David is author of The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006).
Mr. David’s new book Eye of the Phoenix: Mysterious Visions and Secrets of the American Southwest is now also available from the usual outlets, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Adventures Unlimited Press, or get a signed copy from the author. (www.theorionzone.com)
Eye of the Phoenix: mysterious visions and secrets of the American Southwest – Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)
He has published articles in Fate, Atlantis Rising, Ancient American, and World Explorer magazines.
Gary lives with his wife and daughter in northern Arizona, where the skies are still relatively pristine.
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Hopi Blue Star Prophecy
by Starseedjourney on September 20, 2008, from YouTube Website
An ancient Hopi Indian prophecy states,
“When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens, the Fifth World will emerge”.
This will be the Day of Purification.
The Hopi name for the star Sirius is Blue Star Kachina.
It will come when the Saquasohuh (Blue Star) Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask.
Hopi Prophecy
Handed down from ancient times, the Hopi Prophesy delineates the path of peace, and harmony with nature.
Where we have deviated from that path, the prophecy has correctly predicted the results.
Which path lies before us?
What does the future hold?
Hear a message of tribal elders for our modern world.
Originally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME.
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by ArchaicRevivalx2012 on November 05, 2007
The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries.
However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe.
Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology is not always told consistently and each Hopi mesa, or even each village, may have its own version of a particular story.
But,
“in essence the variants of the Hopi myth bear marked similarity to one another.”
It is also not clear that those stories which are told to non-Hopis, such as anthropologists and ethnographers, represent genuine Hopi beliefs or are merely stories told to the curious while keeping safe the Hopi’s more sacred doctrines.
As folklorist Harold Courlander states,
“there is a Hopi reticence about discussing matters that could be considered ritual secrets or religion-oriented traditions.”
David Roberts continues that,
“the secrecy that lies at the heart of Puebloan [including Hopi] life… long predates European contact, forming an intrinsic feature of the culture.”
In addition, the Hopis have always been willing to assimilate foreign religious ideas into their cosmology if they are proven effective for such practical necessities as bringing rain.
As such, it is important to note that the Hopi had at least some contact with Europeans beginning the 16th century, and some believe that European Christian traditions may have entered into Hopi cosmology at some point.
Indeed, Spanish missions were built in several Hopi villages starting in 1629 and were in operation until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
However, after the revolt, it was the Hopi alone of all the Pueblo tribes who kept the Spanish out of their villages permanently, and regular contact with whites did not begin again until nearly two centuries later.
The Hopi mesas have therefore been seen as “relatively unacculturated” at least through the early twentieth century, and it may be posited that the European influence on the core themes of Hopi mythology was slight.
The Rainbow Warriors
by The Virtual Sacred Circle of Nations on September 11 04, 2012
The story and legend from the Native Americans People about the Tribe of people from many walks of life, that will rise to save the Earth.
When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again.
They will be known as the Warriors of the Rainbow and will put its faith in actions not words – Old Native American Prophecy Rainbow Warriors are people from all walks of life who care about the future of all living things and have an interest in developing a deeper connection to the web of life itself.
Great leaders, Warriors and Shamans of many nations will be born, and they will cleanse the earth for rebirth.
Next will come the Planters sowing seeds of truth, justice and freedom.
The Storytellers, Warriors and Planters will live in the way of the Great Spirit and teach ways to keep Mother of the Ground sacred forevermore.
They will be called Rainbow Warriors for they will gather the four sacred directions, all distinctly separate but forever connected in the Circle of Life.
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Manataka American Indian Council
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