: "The time has come", the Walrus said, "To
: speak of many things: Of ships and shoes and sealing wax,
: of cabbages and kings." Alice in Wonderland

: "There are two water serpents, one at each pole with a
: warrior sitting on his head and tail. These command nature
: to warn us by her activities that time is getting short and
: we must correct ourselves. If we refuse to heed these
: warnings, the warriors will let go of the serpents, they
: will rise up, and all will perish." Hopi Prophecy

WE MUST FIND THE WAY OUT OF THE BURNING BUILDING that is our Social Reality!

[snip]

: THE 'TRUTHS' HIDDEN IN OUR MYTHS AND TALES:
: It is time we found 'the ONE ring' that lies inside of us. It
: is time we ceased being the 'mortal men' doomed to die and
: took up the Sword Excalibur of Truth. Whose Truth? As Mitch
: says, "Your Truth". It is time for each of us to
: become Parsifal and heal the wound of the Grail King. But
: HOW?

[snip]

: So, now, I say to you, my son, there is a great storm
: gathering in your world. There will be no answer in your
: arms - there will be no safety in your science. It may rage
: on until every flower of your culture is trampled, and all
: human things are leveled in vast chaos. When that time
: arrives, we shall come forward again to help revive your
: culture and your race. Perhaps by then you will have
: learned the futility of war and strife."
: ---------------------------------

: A Beginning...
: Esclarmonde

Esclarmonde,

There is a standing stone at the bottom of the universe toward which the dove flies, through the junk of all human nature, to make her nest. It is the quintessential story and it is told in the STARS. Forever our ancestors looked up into the night sky and watched the motion above. No TV, no movies, only real stars. They are a mirror, all we have to do is look up to know where to go.

We HAVE lost our way, and answers are not made of maps or tunnels. Those reflect the inner connection to our intuition, the one rational mind has overthrown in its insatiable conquest over mother earth. The answers rest quietly waiting in our HEARTS. These are connected to the messages in the stars as told by our ancestors (ALL OF THEM) in their stories. If we reconnect the intuitive mind to our rational "details," then we begin to see the pictures left to us in a wholly different way. It enters the 4 dimension as intent. LOOK UP! The only way out of the burning house is THROUGH THE FIRE. That fire is your intuition.

Following is the Prophecy of Deganawida of the Iroquois Confederacy. There is a story that takes 4 days to tell and is a ceremony. I believe and hope that the Elders will share it with all human kind, somehow, soon.

From Warriors of the Rainbow, Willoya and Brown, 1962:

"When Deganawida was leaving the Indians in the Bay of Quinte in Ontario, he told the Indian people that they would face a time of great suffering. They would distrust their leaders and the principles of peace of the League, and a great white serpent was to come upon the Iroquois, and that, fora time, it would intermingle with the Indian people and would be accepted...This serpent would in time become so powerful that it would attempt to destroy the Indians, and the serpent is described as choking the life's blood out of the Indian people. Deganawida told the Indians that they would seem to be lost, and he told them that when things looked their darkest a red serpent would come from the north and approach the white serpent, which would be terrified, and upon seeing the red serpent, he would release the Indian, who would fall to the ground like a helpless child, and the white serpent would turn all its attention to the red serpent. ... The white serpent would be stunned and take part of the red serpent and accept him. Then there is a heated argument and a fight. And then the Indian revives and crawls toward the land of the hilly country where he would assemble his people together, and they would renew their faith and the principles of peace that Deganawida had established. There would at the same time exist among the Indians a great love and forgiveness for his brother, and, in this gathering, would come streams from all over -- not only the Iroquois, but from all over -- and they would gather in this hilly country, and they would renew their friendship. Deganawida said they would remain neutral in this fight between the white serpent and the red serpent.

At the time they were watching the two serpents locked in this battle, a great message would come to them and make them ever so humble, and, when they became that humble, they will be waiting for a young leader, and Indian boy, possibly in his teens, who would be a choice seer. Nobody knows who he is or where he comes from, but he will be given great power, and would be heard by thousands, and he would give them the guidance and the hope to refrain from going back to their land and he would be the accepted leader. Deganawida said that they will gather in the land of the hilly country beneath the branches of an elm tree, and they should burn tobacco and call upon Deganawida by name when they are facing their darkest hours, and he will return. Deganawida said that as the choice seer speaks to the Indians, he would be heard by all at the same time, and, as the Indians are gathered there to watch the fight, they will notice from the south a black serpent coming from the sea. He is described as dripping with salt water, and as he stands there, he rests for a spell to get his breath, all the time watching to the north to the land where the white serpent and the red serpent are fighting.

Deganawida said that the battle between the white and the red serpents would open real slow, but would then become so violent that the mountains would crack and the rivers would boil and the fish would turn up on their bellies. He said that there would be no leaves on the trees in that area. There would be no grass, and that strange bugs and beetles woul crawl from the ground and attack both serpents. He said that a great heat would cause the stench of death to sicken both serpents. And then, as the boy seer is watching this fight, the red serpent reaches around the back of the white serpent and pulls from his a hair which is carried toward the south by a great wind into the waiting hands of the black serpent. As the black serpent studied this hair, the hair suddenly turns into a woman, a white woman who tells him things that he knows to be true, but he wants to hear them again. When this white woman finished telling these things, he takes her and gently places her on a rock with great love and respect, and then he becomes infuriated at what he has heard, so he makes a beeline for the north, and he enters the battle between the red and white serpents with such speed and anger that he defeats the two serpents who have already become battle-weary.

When he finishes, he stands on the chest of the white serpent and he boasts, and puts his chest out like he's the conqueror, and he looks for another serpent to conquer. He looks to the land of the hilly country and then he sees the Indian standing there with his arms folded and looking ever so noble so that he knows that this Indian is not the one that he should fight. The next direction that he will face will be eastward, and that time he will be momentarily blinded by a light that is many times brighter than the sun. The light will be coming from the east to the west over the water, and when the black serpent regains his sight, he becomes terrified and makes a beeline for the sea. He dips into the sea and swims away in a southerly direction, and shall never again be seen by the Indians.

The white serpent revives, and he, too, sees this light, and he makes a feeble attempt to gather himself and go toward that light. A portion of the white serpent refuses to remain, but instead makes its way toward the land of the hilly country, and there he will join the Indian people with a great love lilke that of a lost brother. the rest of the white serpent would go to the sea and dip into the sea and would be lost out of sight for a spell. Then suddenly the white serpent would appear again on the top of the water and he would be slowly swimming toward the light. Deganawida said that the white serpent would never again be a troublesome spot for the Indian people. The red serpent would revive and he would shiver with great fear when he sees that light. He would crawl to the north and leave a bloody shaky trail northward, and he would never again be seen by the Indians. Deganawida said that as this light approaches he would be that light, and he would return to his Indian people, and when he returns, the Indian people would be a greater nation than they ever were before."