Rattlesnake Prophecy

The Cherokee Rattlesnake Prophecy mentions several 2012 events and characters that one is accustomed to reading about when researching the subject of prediction.

It is sometimes referenced as the Prophecy of the Rattlesnake, the Cherokee Star Constellation Prophecy, or the Chickamaugan prophecy. The Chickamauga Cherokee are a people who have inhabited the South East part of the USA for as long as history recalls.

Within the Rattlesnake Prophecy one will find the presence of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent mentioned in the Mayan and meso-American prophecies. There is also mention of a 13 constellation zodiac and of the 2004 and 2012 Venus transit and even the Pleiades which many red skinned people believe to be the star system where life originated.

The 13 constellation zodiac of the Cherokee is said to be special in that it holds a secretive oracular power for those who know how to use it. The Cherokee calendar is a complex calendrical system, also based on other calendars such as those of the Aztecs and Mayan.

Another term mentioned in this prophecy is TIME UNTIME. This is open to interpretation but my intuition tells me that this somehow refers to a linear time like that which the modern Gregorian calendar uses balanced against the cyclical time measurements that were used by these native tribes of the Americas or perhaps it's a reference to physical being and metaphysical being or an event where some sort of consciousness awakening occurs. A stargate of sorts.

The following is the prophecy of the rattlesnake but this rattlesnake prophecy is only one prophecy that has come out of the Cherokee version of the 13 star zodiac.

This rattlesnake prophecy involves a serpent or snake which has 52 scales upon its mouth. Each of these 52 scales can be referenced to a location on the Cherokee calendar...and upon the wheels of time/untime. This system of wheels is a dating system that can be used to foretell the destiny of events for people, planets, the universe, and the consciousness of the elements of life.

The Rattlesnake Prophecy

When the Earth sees the fingers of Spearfinger strike Jupiter, when the ages of the Rings and wheels tell it is the ending of the ages of cycles of 5, this will be the sign for the whole earth, for all the earth will see this thing, to wake up from sleep. These fingers that stuck Jupiter was the comet fragments that hit Jupiter in the 1990s and the whole earth took of is majesty. This was the sign foretold on the Calendar for the Cherokee people to WAKE UP to come out of sleep.

The Cherokee Calendar also speaks its voice telling that at this time of the fingers striking Jupiter that Orion Star System will awaken. And the Pleiades and Orion will war once again as in old. Jupiter and Venus will awaken to its destiny of TIME UNTIME of cycles. Orion will WAR with Pleadies, Jupiter will WAR with Venus. The time of the Cherokee UKU's will be at hand.

In the year 2004 and 2012 an alignment will take place both on the Cherokee Calendar and in the heavens of the Rattlesnake Constellation both. It is the time of the doublehead serpent stick. It is the time of the Red of Orion and Jupiter against White Blue of Pleadies and Venus. It is the time of the Uku's choosing. It is the time of the Beloved Woman and MYSTERIES OF TIME UNTIME. It is the Time Untime of the THUNDERBOLT and the spirits of Lightning Mountains.

In the year 2004 and 2012 the Cherokee Rattlesnake Constellation will take on a different configuration. The Snake itself will remain, however, upon the Rattlesnake shall be added upon its head feathers, its eyes will open and glow, wings spring forth as a winged Rattlesnake, it shall have hands and arms and in its hands shall be found a bowl. The bowl will hold blood. Upon its tail of 7 rattles shall be the glowing and movement of Pleiades.

The Rattlesnake shall become a FEATHERED RATTLESNAKE or FEATHERED SERPENT of TIME UNTIME.

And upon the Rattlesnake is also the Milky Way. A crossing of the Milky Way shall be seen at these times.

For the center of the Universe is what many know as the Constellation Sagittarius by modern man. But upon this constellation of is also found the Pleiades Star system which is what is different in the boundary of others and the Cherokee Zodiac.

The Milky Way is ALSO a Tree ... STONE TREE. And upon Stone Tree is as a Tree with a tree trunk, branches, a top, and even roots. The Flower and the Tree is also a tassel as corn. And upon the flower and the tree is the TREE OF LIFE. REBIRTH, RENEWAL, NEW.

And the Cherokee Calendar shall end in the year 2012. But upon the times just prior shall be the Feathered Serpent and its prophecy.

Upon the Heavens design, within the Cherokee Rattlesnake Constellation, it is written. And upon the Rings of TIME UNTIME of the Cherokee Calendar it also says BEHOLD RATTLESNAKE CONSTELATION. And Remember.

The Rings of the Cherokee Calendar are read by the winding motion of the Rattlesnake. To Add or to subtract TIME UNTIME. To MOVE the Wheels backward or forward, to add a wheel to move the rings, to tell the tale what was, what is, and to be. The Rattlesnake and it design tells the movement of the RINGS OF TIME.

And in the sky heavens the motions of the movement of stars, planets, and life tell the tale of its bearing. For all is as the winding of the Rattlesnake. And in the year 2004 the Morning Star shall be first and in the year 2012 the Evening Star shall be first. And upon those years the crown of the Feathered Serpent shall bear its colors and honor. The hands shall hold the bowl and the tail shall be as the roots of a Tree, The Pleaides Tree of the beginning.

And in the Year 2004 and 2012 shall be the TIME UNTIME of the Feathered Serpent of the Sky Heavens. And the Rings shall turn upon those years of prophecy foretold on the Rings of TIME UNTIME. And Ywahoo Falls Kentucky shall sing of Venus and the Feathered Rattlesnake.

For this is not all the prophecy not all the things thereof. For if it was meant for one to know and I give only part, then you have received a great gift. For if I tell all and it was not meant for one to know then I have waisted my breath. For this is a sacred thing, the Venus Alignment and the Feathered Serpent of the Heavens.

And in the Year 2012 the Cherokee Calendar Ends. And all is reborn. For the Feathered Rattlsnake comes and shall be seen in the heavens in the year 2004 to 2012.

In the south of the americas ... it is related as the coming of Quetzalcoatl. The Ancient Cherokee relate it as the coming of the Pale One once again.

The Rattlesnake Constellation shall appear with the Venus Alignment. The Stars of the Heavens of the Cherokee Zodiac, the Rings of the Calendar, and The Venus Alignment tell the story of a Chickamaugan Prophecy. For they all are aligned in the year 2004 to 2012.

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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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Two Headed Serpent Prophecy

This Two Headed Serpent Prophecy tells us of a boy who will be gifted with the power to reinstate the North American continent to a state of being based on the holistic way of life that the ancient tribes understood. The boy will do this through the use of a bow that has a string made from the hair of the clan mothers. He will use this bow to pierce the double headed snake in a single blow and having done so he will go on to cut open the serpent and release all those who have had their spirit made hostage to the reptile.

The two headed serpent prophecy is very similar in nature to the two serpent prophecy.

The story goes that a young boy was wandering about one day when he came across a double headed snake. The snake was unique not only for it's twin heads but also for it's gold and silver lined body. However this reptile was not in good health and the boy concluded that the reason for this was that each head wanted something different from the other and the tension or stress of this imbalance of opinion was causing the sickness.

Had the boy left it there it is likely the the snake would have died.

He returned to his village and gained the permission of the elders to keep it as long as it remained outside of the house and that he kept it fed.

The boy obeyed the wishes of the elders and fed it a regular diet of insects. But the insects soon grew inneffective at keeping the growing snake healthy therefore larger meals came at first in the form of field mice then rabbits and so on....but yet that wasn't enough for a snake that didn't stop growing and consuming.

The elders were at awe of this serpents greed but they nonetheless offered it bigger food supplies yet until they were reaching into the most sacred food stores which included beavers and otters, considered to be brothers.

The double headed serpent prophecy goes on to tell us that the snake got so large that the village food supply couldn't sustain it's appetite and it began to consume the spirit guides such as the deer and moose.

Finally it went for the spirit of the children and of the elders and of anyone or anything else that was too weak to defend itself – even the dead.

Eventually the village was destroyed and the serpent moved on to another village then another and so on and in the process of moving about it consumed everything in it's path and it left behind the poisoned carcass of death.

The double headed serpent prophecy tells us that the snake came to a point where it had completely saturated the land and that it double back on it's trail only to find that all matter left was not consumable. Everything was poisoned therefore the serpent went out into the cosmos starting with the moon and then reached further towards the star we call the sun and further yet all the time consuming and not taking the time to make offerings of peace with that or those who fed it.

The prophecy tells us that when the serpent had come to within a stone's throw of completely destroying the Earth that somehow this boy with his arrow would come along and change the fate of Gaia or of Mother Earth.

But before the boy arrives on the scene the double headed serpent has already begun the process of destroying itself. The heads are fighting each other and weakening themselves almost in a cannabalistic way. When there is nothing to eat outside of itself it begins to eat itself.

The boy goes on to destroy the serpent and releases all of the spirits that were once enslaved by the snake and once the snake is dead life returns to the spiritual holistic way of old.

This double headed serpent prophecy should be compared to the two serpent prophecy.

Each version is told by a different North American Native tribe.

For an interpretation of the double headed serpent prophecy the reader should click on that link where this prophecy of the haudenausonee is told by Stuart Myiow of the Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnewake.

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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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Two Serpent Prophecy

The Two Serpent Prophecy of the Mohawk is open to interpretation like all other prophecy and these types of prophecies seem to be taking on more interest and importance as we move closer to the year 2012.

2012 is not about native american indians or about north or south america, it is a global, or even a universal phenomenon.

Kanienkehaka is Mohawk land where the story of the two serpent prophecy revolves. This land finds it's boundaries in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec and on the American North East coast (New York).

The two serpent prophecy.

A small boy shall one day show you the way.
With a bow made from willow
And bow string made from the hair of the clan mothers
With an arrow made of straight sappling
and an arrow head made of white flint

How the problem developed.

Two Small Serpents appeared to hunters travelling east in a canoe.
One of the snakes was of a golden color while the other was silverish.
The two serpents were creating a glow that reached out into the sky and created a scene somewhat like that of the dance of colorful northern lights or aurora borealis.
The hunters admired these lights and felt that they would gain recognition by other tribe members if they took the snakes back to the community with them. They also felt that by doing so they would be rescuing the serpents from undue arm.

The light emission that flowed from the reptiles was ongoing and made it possible for the people of the tribe to see them approaching the village from far away.

Having reached the shore the hunters allowed all others to admire their catch and all were amazed. Once the fascination subsided it was decided that the serpents should be kept in a separate canoe for safe keeping. There they were nourished with plenty of insects but it quickly became evident that these snakes possessed an insatiable appetite. This constant consumption made them grow immensely is size to a point where they needed to be moved to a bigger compound.

Their diet also needed to be changed to fit their appetite therefore they were now given small animals as meals but even these didn't meet their consumption needs so again the food source was changed to include larger and still larger animals.

The serpents continued to grow and in time they sought out other sources of food. They escaped their compound and went for the little children of the tribe.

The warriors of the tribe tried to avenge the death of the children by slaying the serpents but it was to no avail. The reptiles kept ravaging the community and then took their appetite out into the woods and further beyond.

The reptiles of the two serpent prophecy move out into the world.

The silver snake went north and the gold serpent went south.

Wherever they went the serpents consumed and left destruction in their path such has holes in mountains, and blockades in rivers.

Individually the serpents journey took them through wide areas and both left their mark of destruction but they were destined to return once again to Mohawk country. Again it was a hunter who first saw the golden serpent returning to the land of the Kanienkehaka.

Three hundred years had passed since the first hunters had met up with a few small serpents whom they'd adopted but who had deceived them and left them and their tribes people arguing about how to rid themselves of this intruder.

Three hundred years and even now the people of the community were at odds over how to destroy these intruders.

The solution to the problem comes in the form of the two serpents prophecy.

The answer to the age old question of destroying this destructive force in their lives came from the Creator.

A small boy shall one day show you the way.

With a bow made from willow
And bow string made from the hair of the clan mothers
With an arrow made of straight sappling
and an arrow head made of white flint

The two serpent prophecy is but one of several native american prophecies that seem to be predicting great changes for not only the red people but for all races of humanity.
To further in research the subject of 2012 and other prophecies that involve serpents click on the link above.

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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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Seven Sins and Mayan Prophecy according to Mahatma Gandhi

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Does Mahatma Gandhi, a man who lived by the beliefs of the great Yuga cycles of good and evil forces that rule the human psyche, and the Mayan creators of cyclic calendars, speak the same language.

Mayan scholars say 2012 is a consciousness revival that will see humanity rise above the seven sins that Mahatma Gandhi describes. The interpreters of the Yugas state that during the Kali Yuga period men will be rapped up in the bondage of Gandhi's seven sins. Then through a consciousness revival process these things will come to pass and man will pass to a Golden Age once again.

Bible scholars will explain that same process as the coming of the Lord and the ascension of consciousness for the chosen ones who will go on to live a thousand years in peace.

Are we there yet?

Wealth without work

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Pleasure Without Conscience

Knowledge Without Character


Commerce Without Morality

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Science Without Humanity

Worship Without Sacrifice

Politics Without Principles

Mitchell Hedges Crystal skull and 2012 Pleiadians consciousness

The Mayans say 2012 will be a time of awakening. The winter solstice of 2012 will bring about the end of the long count and of a 26000 year. This will be the end of the cycle of Venus and the beginning of the cycle of Pleiadies. This, the Mayan say is a time when the Pleiadies ancestors will return and we as humans must prepare the earth and the inhabitants of the earth to harmonize with the whole. Lovelock referred to this in his gaia theory where all things need to be in harmony for the benefit of the whole. This process may sound strange to people who conform to the norms of a society based on socio-economic survival but it is according to the Mayan a matter of survival of the species. In reality the Universe and beyond doesn't need humanity to continue on.

The pleiadians are a peaceful race they claim and the Mayan legend includes the mystical powers of some crystal skulls which would have been used in rituals and cosmic festivals in order to contact the ancestors. But this is mythology.

The story of the Crystal skulls is gaining a lot of popularity.


The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull is one of the 13 skulls that would be part of the complete set.

The story of how the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull was rediscovered is written below. It is full of mystery and romance. Whether the Crystal Skull legend of the Mayan as any truth is an argument that finds support on both sides. The truth is perhaps only known to the creators of the 13 skulls. So we are left to form our own reality in light of what people tell us.

The Story

Frederick Albert Mitchell Hedges' character and history are as enigmatic as the story of the Crystal Skulls.
Was he a spy, some kind of mercenary working the system from all sides. Was he an illuminati agent? Was he just an eccentric man of wealth researching his own interests as he travelled between the United States, Central America, the Carribeans, the United Kingdom and other world destination?
He was born in England in 1882. He grew up to mix socially with the some of the wealthiest men on the planet such has JP Morgan and Jules Basche. He met a Mrs. Le Guillon in 1906 while vacationing in France. He again met Mrs Le Guillon after looking her up in Canada sometime around 1914. During this fishing trip to Canada he was accompanied by two americans and his father.
Perhaps one of the most mystical bits of information related to F.A. Mitchell-Hedges is the mention of the "Chief Fetish" of the Chucunaque Tribe of Panama. This healing ceremonial ritual is recorded by Mitchell-Hedges as using a male human fetus to treat males on the point of death. It is a very special and seldom used ritual and when it works it is considered a miracle. This human male fetus would have been taken from the mothers womb and preserved through some unknown method until required. Somehow the preservation method kept the fetus in as good a condition as when it was first removed. To add to the mystery, Mitchell-Hedges only got this bit of knowledge by eluding death at the hands of a jungle tribe who were known to ritually kill white men invaders. He cajoled them with the magic of chemistry and they took him in as a godsend. The Chief Fetish was examined by the renown anthropologist Arthur Keith in later years and he recorded it as having an entirely unique skull formation. This skull formation anomoly remains a mystery and the fetish piece remains an exhibition in The British Museum. These expeditions into the Panama jungles were occuring in approximately 1915 and he was sponsored in part by Lady Richmond Brown who accompanied him on the journey.

Anna Mitchell Hedges was equally mystical in character. She was born in 1907 as Anne Marie Le Guillon and raised in Port Colborne, Ontario, in Canada. Her mother, the same Mrs Le Guillon whom F.A. Mitchell had met in 1906, had immigrated to Canada while pregnant. Anne Marie's early childhood was laced with family death. Her father died in France. The worst of these deaths was that of her mother who died in chilbirth in 1917. She was an orphan and Mike, as his friends called him, was kind enough to adopt Anne Marie. She moved to New York with him and took on the Mitchell-Hedges name.

After a shaky start they grew very close over the years and she travelled with him extensively. It was during one of these trips in 1926 when she was 17 years of age that the Crystal Skull came into the hands of the Mitchell-Hedges. Mike Hedges was contracted as supervisor for a Maya archeological excavation site in Belize. The ceremonial limestone structures at this site are severely damaged and many of the stones have tumbled off of the main structures. The site is known as Lubaantun and is now dated to the late classical mayan era (700-900AD). The title Lubaantum is a mayan word with the symbolic meaning of "place of the fallen rocks".

Lubaantun is a complex of several monumental structures that includes a place of religious worship, some ball courts, along with administrative, political, and commercial centers.

Anne, or as her father called her, Sammy was curiously investigating the site and spotted a shiny object. This sites structures unlike other maya pyramid sites do not have doors. When Sammy delivered the news of her find to her father arrangements were made to have some stones lifted and they arrived at the shiny object to discover that it was an amazing crystal sculpted human skull measuring approximately 8 cubic inches.

F.A. Mitchell-Hedges passed away in 1959 leaving Anne Mitchell-Hedges his estate. Along with several other treasures, including the russian icon "The Virgin of Kazan" which some believe to have miraculous healing energy, and some treasure chests which had been found on the Island of Roatan in Honduras, Sammy was now the sole owner of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull. The Crystal In 1967 she was back in Canada doing lecture tours on her fathers work and the Crystal Skull.


Anne (Sammy)Mitchell-Hedges passed away on April 11th 2007 and left the Crystal Skull legacy to Bill Homann who had spent several years caring for her during the final years of her life. Homann had intruced himself to Sammy several years earlier after finding a deep interest in her late Fathers work and in the Crystal skull.


What's the argument?

Either this skull is a hoax or it isn't.

On the one hand this crystal skull is very old and along with the others that have been identified it is part of a ritual of a once great continent where perhaps each city state is the bearer of one piece of the puzzle. Maybe the skulls are kept seperate until a time when the great council of chiefs meet. During these very special rituals all the energy of all crystals brings about some mystical logic. This cosmic energy would be the bridge between Homer and Plato, this is the energy that binds logic to intuition. But that's fantastic and would never pass the logical scientists control of the scientific institutionOn the other hand the crystals are only a few hundred years old at most and are fabricated by creative shams.

Quetzacoatl and Ourosboros

Quetzalcoatl was the symbol of death and resurrection. The Ourosboros is the symbol of rebirth.The mythical stories depicting ouroboros revolve around a theme of renewal, infinity, and eternal return, and repetion of history.
The word Quetzal can refer to a bird of magnificent beauty with golden-green and scarlet plummage.Quetzal can also refer to a precious thing. The word Coatl defines a serpent. Therefore Quetzalcoatl is the precious feathered serpent, or the beautiful serpent.
The first images of the Ouroboros theme are found in Alexandrian Egypt in an age where the beautiful Cleopatra was looking for the grail whereby she could manufacture Gold. The wizards of alchemy were laboring hard to find this formula.
Quetzalcoatl was a deity within the MesoAmerican pantheon. He was the God of the wind, the giver of breath. As an immortal creator, he decended to the land of the dead (mictlan), where he remained for a period (he fell like the dead). He brought from the land of the dead some bones and sprinkled them with his blood and turned them into humans.

That is the ancient myth behind Quetzatcoatl but his presence his brought to life in the mortal world again as the founder of the Toltec city of Tollan. The sixteenth century writer, Bernardino de Sahagun in a book entitled History of Things of New Spain compares the mortal Quetzalcoatl to the legendary King Arthur of Merlin fame. Quetzatcoatl is pure and virtuous, he is the ninth Emporer Priest of his Kingdom and has a temple built in his name.
The Aztecs adopted the Quetzalcoatl cult centuries after the Toltecs had faded out of the mainstream.
Quetzalcoatl is credited with several honors.

• started the cultivation of Maize
• introduced weaving
• introduced polishing of stones
• introduced the making of feather mantles
• taught men how to measure time
• taught men how to study astronomy
• invented calendars and rituals based on calendar events

The Aztecs became extremely dogmatic in their worship rites and included human sacrifice as a means to appease Quetzalcoatl. The prophecy surrounding Quetzalcoatl stated that the God would one day reincarnate and reclaim his throne. This backfired on the Aztecs when the white skin race entered the picture. Knowing of this reincarnation belief Hernando Cortes posed as Quetzalcoatl and manipulated the Aztecs into assimilation.

Moira Timms, in a book entitled Beyond Prophecy and Prediction, writes of the duality of the mythical and the mortal Quetalcoatl.

There is strange correlation between the myth of the ouroboros and of Quetzalcoatl. They both are icons of a theme that repeats itself. That theme is eternal return and oneness or singularity.

That theme isn't only evident in Ouroboros and The Plummed Serpent. It can be identified with the Hopi, the Mayans, the Bible Prophets, Cayce, the Babylonians and almost all of these cultural or personal works seem to predict the coming of great change.

It may all peak on December 21, 2012 or maybe not. The prophets are telling us to get our Feng Shui in balance, get our yin yang together, clean up our house, smell our @$%^.

2012 is but an interpreters prediction. The prophets are never wrong.

We may have better technology than the ancients but deep inside we still worship the beliefs of the ancients. Hollywood is filling a need. The bookshelfs are filling that same need. Their something inside of us all crying out "save us from ourselves".

The ouroboros was used as a logo for the TV series Millenium.

Before Chris Carter created the X-files series he had created Millenium. Carters' Millenium series used the Ouroboros as their logo. The story of Millenium revolves around Robert Black an ex FBI detective who posseses extrasensory power. He is approached by "the Millenium Group", a black op team who want to hire him as a consultant.

The theme of Millenium is fitting to the Ourosboros symbol. The all is one theme is apparent in the ability of Brown to transcend time constraints and see into the world of others.

This "all in one" theme is where the first Ouroboros symbol is located in history. During the Alexandrian Period in Egypt, Cleopatra was the reigning deity when an a ......................to go on would be to return to the beginning............eternal cycles just like the Yuga states.......

Peace Out....................

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Reference

Quetzalcoatl / Ouroboros Revelation 2012

Oneness Commitment

Ojibway - 7 Fires Prophecy

The Anishnabe or Ojibwa People are North American Natives. They are often referred to as Indians. The first explorers were looking for trade routes to India when they discovered the American continent and they thought these people who occupied the lands were Indians; the title has been used even since. The Ojibwa are but one tribe of Natives in America. Their history can be traced back as far as the stone age.
As tribal people they adapted to clan life and their culture revolved around a Chief who ruled the clan. This Chief was the law within the clan and each clan has a chief and council. The Ojibwa of today live on Reserved land which was allocated to them according to Treaty law after the European invasion of America. Within these reserves there continue to be chiefs but they have very little influence on politics outside of reserve boundaries. They have the same rights has all citizens to vie for a position within the political arena. The exact boundaries and treaty rights are always in dispute.
The Ancient Ojibwa seem to have taken root on the East Coast Shores along the Atlantic Ocean and along the many watersheds that flow inward into the wilderness of the American continent. Many generations have passed since the days of the first Ojibwa and although their exact lineage is difficult to pinpoint with accuracy there are several myths and archeological artifacts that point to a history of a great people. Several prophets came along since the first Objibwa clan formed.
From these Ojibwa prophets we get the prophecies of the Seven Fires. Each prophecy come from a different sage according to legend.

Seven Fires Prophecies

1. First Fire Prophecy: the Anishinabe nation will rise up and follow the sacred shell of Midewiwin lodge which will serve as a rallying point for the people and their traditions will provide a source of strength. The sacred Megis will lead the way to the chosen ground of the Anishnabe. The ground is a turtle shaped island that is linked to the purification of the earth. This island is at the beginning and end of the journey. They will recognize it for it's abundance of food which grows on water. If they do not move they will be destroyed.
2. Second Fire Prophecy: At the time of the Second Fire the nation will be camped by a great body of water. In this time the direction of the Sacred Shell will be lost. The Mediwiwin will diminish in strength. A boy will come to redirect the people in the form of their traditions. This boy will tell them what to expect of the future of the people.
3. Third Fire Prophecy : There will come a time when the Anishinabe will find the path to the land where food grows on water. This land lies in the west and there they must move to.
4. Fourth Fire Prophecy: A light skinned people will come. Some will come with a handshake and bring new knowledge and articles that, when joined to the knowledge and articles of our nation, will form a mighty nation. Others will be wearing armor and the face of death and suffering. Then two more nations will come and make it four combined to make a mightier nation.
5. Fifth Fire Prophecy: There will come a time of great struggle that will involve all Anishinabe. In this time the Anishinabe will encounter strangers promising joy and salvation. At this time their will be those who suffer for choosing to live by the traditional lifestyle of their forefathers. At this time many will abandon the old teachings and follow in the strangers footsteps. This struggle will last many generations and will nearly destroy the Anishnabe.
6. Sixth Fire Prophecy: In this time the Anishnabe will know they have been deceived. Many will have lost family, territory, and spirit. Many will have been turned against there tribespeople. The cup of life will have become the cup of grief.
7. Seventh Fire Prophecy: In this time a new people will emerge. The young Anishnabe will turn to the elders for direction to the traditional ways but many elders will have little to offer, having lost the spirit of those ways in the suffering of the past. The persistence of these eager youth in the meditative silence brought about through the drum beat will be rewarded as they come to hear the spirit of the forefathers in their heart. With the knowledge of the forefathers re-awakened they will once again be as they once were many moons before.

There was an Eight prophet who spoke of an Eternal fire.

There will come a time when more and more people will be reborn in the ways of the ancients and these rekindled spirits will once again flow in harmony with the the Eternal spirit of the grand father and of mother earth. This Eternal Fire is the Eight and final fire but not everyone will find healing through its' radiating warmth. Many will choose to follow in the ways that lead to chaos and wars and famines and spiritual death.

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These are myths of course, but they may hold more truth than we dare to admit. The healing process of the Natives of America is a holistic approach based the elements of life. It's all about harmony and balance of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. Many rituals involved meditation and ceremonies to incant the spirit within and without.

The interpretation of these Ojibwa Prophecies is open for debate like all other prophetic work.

I like to think that the first six prophecies are all pointing to one picture. The seventh prophecy seems to evolve and include a rebirth of traditional ways. The Eight Prophet seems to me, to be the wisest as he tells of an Eternal Fire that is not bound by time or physical matter.

This of course is just my opinion.

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Relevant sites

Ojibwa

Anishinabe

Ojibwe Anishnabe Chippewa Art and History