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Mending
the Sacred Hoop
Integrating the Theory of Process with
Native American Mythology
by Little Bear and Hummux
In the beginning of time, Creator sat the children around
in a circle on Mother Earth and told each race about its individual
responsibilities and its roles in the great sacred hoop of life. The sacred
teachings were divided into four equal parts and one given to each tribe. The
four root races were then sent to the four directions, each given a special
knowledge of creation.
The Yellow People were entrusted with Spirit and
the element of fire. The Black People were given Soul
corresponding to the element of water. the White People learned about the
Mind and the element of air. And the Red People had Body
and the element of earth.
Each race was therefore given a quarter of the whole truth
of creation. But as time passed, they forgot that their knowledge was
incomplete. Each thinking their knowledge was the whole truth, they began to
quarrel with each other.
The White People were told that they had a special mission
to counsel the other races and bring them all together. In three previous
periods, a different race had been given this task, but they each abused their
privilege and so the creator destroyed all the people with their own powers.
Volcanoes destroyed the world during the period of fire. An ice age came
and destroyed the world during the period of earth. the deluge came and
destroyed the world during the period of water. and now this is the
period of air.
The White People were told that knowledge of the Mind
was very powerful and to be careful or this world would be destroyed by damage
to the air.
Unfortunately the White People forgot the Creator's
warning and as they traveled the earth, instead of counseling with the other
races and incorporating their quarter of the knowledge into the whole truth,
they used the power of the mind to dominate the other races.
The went to the Yellow People and brought opium addiction
to enslave them instead of learning about Spirit. They went to the Black
People and put them in chains and made slaves of them instead of learning about
Soul. When they came to America, they brought with them the Yellow People
and the Black People as slaves as they began their conquest of the Red People.
They did not attempt to learn about the Body and caretakership of the
earth from the Red People, but rather attempted to destroy them. And sure
enough, in our time, the destruction of forests which produce oxygen and
habitat, the pollution from fossil fuels, and the chemical destruction of the
oceans and the ozone layer all lead to destruction of this world by the
contamination of the air -- the White People's own special expertise,
represented by the Mind.
There are many native mandalas with varying degrees of
correspondence with Arthur Young's Theory of process. Go here to learn more
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However, we can still mend the Sacred Hoop and restore the
world to balance. In this mandala, the Esselen Tribe teaches balance of the four
elements. Each direction is associated with a special guardian:
On
this website, I teach Ma'heo'o Reiki--- balance of the five elements as my part
in this
healing process. There needs to be a uniting of the people, a rising of the mass
consciousness so that we may begin this process as "Warriors of the Rainbow".
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