TRIBAL CIRCLES

The American continents have been home to many people over the past millenia. The first to visit this land were seafaring people of the Atlantic culture who lived in a land called Pahn, The Red Land. Their ancient legends record that the world-wide destruction which caused the Great Flood also resulted in their once-powerful continent to sink into the Earth's magma as the land masses of the planet began their continental drift.

Before this time, only a small chain of islands projected from the shallow sea that covered the Americas. When the Red Land of Pahn began to sink, This New Land arose from the seas like a great turtle surfacing in water. Thus the ancient people named it Turtle Island.

The people of Pahn were a highly civilized culture, with advanced skills in art, architecture, writing, exploration and mental development. As they fled to the Four Directions, they carried their Knowledge with them.

Those who sailed to the East found new homes along the coast of
the Mediterranean Sea, and their descendants became known as
Phoenicians, Egyptians, Iberians, Basques, Pelasgoi and Etruscans; and the culture of Pahn began to reemerge as the people settled into their new homes.

Those who sailed northward found homes in Britain, where they
were called the Anecotti or Silurians, with dark skin and black hair. Those who sailed to the West found a home prepared for them that was uninhabited, having only recently arisen from the seas.

The people spread along the coastlines, restoring the culture of Pahn as best they could in this virgin land. They built great pyramids of earth and stone, and began to explore and settle along the great rivers that drained the lands. Their descendants became known as Inca, Maya, Toltec, Tsalaghi, Lakota, Ojibway and Algonkin.

To the east, another people came from the pacific, as described
in the Hopi migration legends "Book of the Hopi", by Frank Waters.... When they reached this new continent the People divided and explored to the Four Directions, finally being directed to their present home in the Southwest desert.

Others found a passageway along the frozen northland, where a bridge of ice allowed passage from Asia to a new hunting land.

Their descendants settled the Northwest corner of the continent.
Throughout the millenia, these various cultures came to meet,
sometimes in battle over hunting lands and cultural differences,
often in peace, forming a new culture with a harmonious blending
of the crafts, skills and genetics of both people.

The first European visitors to this New Land arrived in the early part of the Fifth Century. According to legend, they were a party of Druids from Albion and Ierne, who came to fulfill a prophesy of their Archdruid by seeking the Valley of Avalon, a sacred place of Celtic legend.

Leading them was a divinely inspired young Druid, who is mentioned in the legends of all the cultures of North and South America. He is often called The Pale God, but the Hopi called him Pahana, the White Brother.

He arrived at Tula at the time when the Toltec calendar predicted the return of their benevolent god, Quetzalcoatl, The Feathered Serpent The Mayans recognized hm as Kukulcan, The Plumed Serpent, and the Incan nations called him Vira Cocha. These legends have been collected in a book called He Walked the Americas, by L. Taylor Hansen.

In later centuries, Viking explorers began to establish colonies in the Northeast and then the lustful greed of the Spanish conquistadors brought them to this land.

Synchronistically, Cortez landed on the Mexican coast at a time predicted by the same Calendar Stone that had announced the benevolent Druid's arrival nearly 1,000 years earlier, at the beginning of the Cycles of Light. But this Calendar, based on the 52 year cycles of Venus, also has a time period of the Cycles of Darkness, which began in 1518, and ushered in by the coming of Hernando Cortez.

According to the turnings of the Calendar Stone cycles, this
last Cycle of Darkness will come to an end in the year 2012
when the Cycles of Light will dawn once again.

As we enter into this Time of the Dawning in the Aquarian Age
we must all learn respect and tolerance for the cultural traditions of the people with whom we share the Earth.

We are all the Children of the Earth and Sun. The sacred teachings of the Medicine Lodges of the Native American people share many truths with the native religions of all civilizations. May we find the enlightenment and wisdom to recognize it.

One of the leaders in bringing Native American thought and religion into the New Age was SUN BEAR, the late Medicine Chief of the Bear Tribe Medicine Society.

With my pipe of Brotherhood I send my smoke to your spirit and memory.

FURTHER SOURCES OF NATIVE AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY:

THE GOOD MEDICINE SOCIETY

NATIVE AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY

NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

SACRED TEXTS OF NATIVE AMERICA

NATIVE AMERICAN PROPHESIES


TRIBAL RESOURCES

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NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCES
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
NATIVE AMERICAN RESOURCE GUIDE
NATIVE AMERICAN ONLINE
NATIVE AMERICAN LORE
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE
NATIVE AMERICAN DIRECTORY
NATIVE AMERICAN GENEALOGY
NATIVE ACCESS GENEALOGY
CYNDI'S LIST OF NATIVE AMERICAN GENEALOGY
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