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Studying Hopi Prophecy Part 2 – Tokpela The Firs

Studying Hopi Prophecy Part 2 – Tokpela The First World

Dear Friends,
I am in the midst of a study, which I sincerely want to share with everyone who reads my blogs. I believe this information to be very important for the time we live in.

My study is on the ancient teachings of the Native American people known as The Hopi. Rather than over explain the things I am studying – I am going to just present this information and let it speak for itself.

Live Love
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This article found online at: http://www.mysteriousworld.com/Journal/2003/Winter/GrandCany on/

Tokpela - The First World

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([Morning at Nankoweap, a passage along the Little Colorado River. The Hopi still visit this area for pilgrimages and to search for salt to use in religious ceremonies. Though rafters and kayakers frequent the area, the ritual areas are strictly off limits.
Tokpela, the "First World", was likely open and wild like the canyon, which is likely part of the attraction and fascination it holds for the Hopi. Image from Kayak Place.])

Tokpela ("Endless Space") the First World, was as pure and perfect as a finite world can be, and the hearts of the people were as one. Their bodies were perfectly in tune with both Taiowa the Creator and the Earth, from which their bodies had been formed. They formed a perfect union between heaven and Earth, which is the purpose for which they had been created.

Thus the First People understood themselves. And this was the First World they lived upon. Its name was Tokpela, Endless Space. Its direction was west; its color sikyangpu, yellow; its mineral sikyasvu, gold. Significant upon it were katoya, the snake with the big head; wisoko, the fat-eating bird; and muha, the little four-leaved plant. On it the First People were pure and happy. So, the First People kept multiplying and spreading over the face of the land and were happy. Although they were of different colors and spoke different languages, they felt as one and understood one another without talking. It was the same with the birds and animals. They all suckled at the breast of their Mother Earth, who gave them her milk of grass, seeds, fruit, and corn, and they all felt as one, people and animals.

However, the paradise of Tokpela was not to last forever. As in the Hebrew account, so in the Hopi account there was a serpent that entered paradise and began to confuse the people with words and turn them away from Taiowa, the Creator:

But gradually there were those who forgot the commands of Sotuknang and the Spider Woman to respect their Creator. More and more they used the vibratory centers of their bodies solely for earthly purposes, forgetting that their primary purpose was to carry out the plan of Creation. There then came along Lavaihoya, the Talker. He came in the form of a bird called Mochni [bird like a mocking bird], and the more he kept talking the more he convinced them of the differences between them: the difference between people and animals, and the differences between the people themselves by reason of the colors of their skins, their speech, and belief in the plan of the Creator. It was then that animals began to draw away from people.... In the same way, people began to divide and draw away from one another — those of different races and languages, then those who remembered the plan of Creation and those who did not. There came among them a handsome one, Kato'ya, in the form of a snake with a big head. He led the people still farther away from one another and their pristine wisdom. They became suspicious of one another and accused one another wrongfully until they became fierce and warlike and began to fight one another. All the time Mochni kept talking and Kato'ya became more beguiling. There was no rest, no peace.

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([Both the Hopi traditions and the Genesis account state the the world before the Flood was in the middle of a war so total that mankind was nearly destroyed because of it. Moreover, in both accounts, man was saved from destruction by the Creator God, so that he could repopulate the Earth after the warlike humans who were no longer listening to Him had been wiped out. Image from Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost".])

Just as it was in the world before the Flood according to the biblical account, so it was in the First World of the Hopi that a serpent (and other creatures) came among them and beguiled mankind into following after their own selfish desires. As a result, instead of leading the simple, spiritual, unselfish lifestyle that Taiowa the Creator, Sotuknang and Spider Woman had ordained for them, they became divisive and fractious, dividing up into factions based upon the color of their skin, their languages, and other superficial differences. Even the ones who had remained loyal to Taiowa the Creator had divided up along theological lines, straining at the letter of the Law and forgetting the Spirit. Before the serpent came, it had been all about "we", but afterwards, and ever since, it has been all about "me".

As a result of this degeneration, the whole world was at war, exactly the opposite of what Taiowa the Creator had intended. So, Taiowa decided that it was necessary to destroy the world in order to save it. Fortunately for mankind, there had been some that still sang the song of Creation, and had not lost their spiritual connection with the Creator. For this reason, Taiowa, like the Hebrew Creator God, decided to save a remnant of humanity from the coming destruction.

But among all the people of different races and languages there were a few in every group who still lived by the laws of Creation. To them came Sotuknang. He came with the sound as of a mighty wind and suddenly appeared before them. He said, "I have observed this state of affairs. It is not good. It is so bad I talked with my Uncle, Taiowa, about it. We have decided this world must be destroyed and another one created so you people can start over again. You are the ones we have chosen." They listened carefully to their instructions. Said Sotuknang, "You will go to a certain place. Your kopavi [vibratory center on the top of the head] will lead you. This inner wisdom will give you the sight to see a certain cloud, which you will follow by day, and a certain star, which you will follow by night. Take nothing with you. Your journey will not end until the cloud stops and the star stops". So all over the world these chosen people suddenly disappeared from their homes and people and began following the cloud by day and the star by night. Many other people asked them where they were going and, when they were told, laughed at them. "We don't see any cloud or star either!" they said. This was because they had lost the inner vision of the kopavi on the crown of their head; the door was closed to them. Still there were a very few who went along anyway because they believed the people who did see the cloud and the star. This was all right.

Just like the Star of Bethlehem event in Matthew 2 and the "cloudy pillar" that led the Israelites out of Egypt, so too the chosen people of Taiowa followed a cloud and a star, that appear to be one and the same. These were to be the people that were saved from the destruction of Tokpela, the First World.

When the last ones arrived Sotuknang appeared. "Well, you are all here, you people I have chosen to save from the destruction of this world. Now come with me." He led them to a big mound where the Ant People lived, stamped on the roof, and commanded the Ant People to open up their home. When an opening was made on top of the anthill, Sotuknang said to the people, "Now you will enter this Ant kiva, where you will be safe when I destroy the world. While you are here I want you to learn a lesson from these Ant People. They are industrious. They gather food in the summer for the winter. They keep cool when it is hot and warm when it is cool. They live peacefully with one another. They obey the plan of Creation." So the people went down to live with the Ant People. When they were all safe and settled Taiowa commanded Sotuknang to destroy the world. Sotuknang destroyed it by fire because the Fire Clan had been its leaders He rained fire upon it. He opened up the volcanoes. Fire came from above and below and all around until the Earth, the waters, the air, all was one element, fire, and there was nothing left except the people safe inside the womb of the Earth. This was the end of Tokpela, the First World.

ELIA NOTE: Just like in this story of the first world - I believe - one day there will be a chosen number of people who will be led to a place (Zion) to be kept safe while man destroys the world yet again.