This series illuminates the Hopi Indians' migrations and history through the words of Oswald "White Bear" Fredericks ("Book of Hopi"). His message contains surprising revelations about ancient civilizations and past interactions with "otherworldly" beings.

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There used to be a fable, commonly imposed as fact on school children in the United States, that in Columbus's time nearly everyone believed the Earth was flat. Fortunately, this untruth has been quietly abandoned, although some still repeat the mistake by crediting instead the Greeks. History professor Jeffrey Burton Russell notes, for example, that with few exceptions, "No educated person in the history of Western civilization from the third century BC onward believed that the Earth was flat," a position that improves upon the former and is no doubt true, yet it still betrays a Western bias. It fails to acknowledge that aboriginal and ancient people, spanning far back into the last Ice Age, knew the Earth was spherical. They knew that the nature of creation itself was cyclical (or vorticular). They acknowledged, revered, and cultivated knowledge of universal law, and evidence of their seemingly impossible technical manifestations -- the Great Pyramid being among the most widely recognized with many others gaining recognition -- lies in ruins around the Earth -- the implications largely ignored by experts who can't adequately explain them within academically accepted contemporary models.

The Hopi Indians of Arizona, a Puebloan tribe, represent the oldest continuous Indian group in the current United States and, contradicting professional opinion, claim they did not come to this continent across the Bering Strait but north from South America, according to Oswald "White Bear" Fredericks, who I met twice as a teenager through a high school anthropology teacher. White Bear was the primary Hopi consultant for Frank Waters' Book of Hopi, a common title in university libraries. During our current period of history, the Bear Clan supersedes all other clans in authority and serves as the tribe's historians. It is their function to preserve the knowledge and memory of the Hopis' migrations and history, so White Bear proved to be an unusually valuable source. Even if representatives of the Western world can't prove that his startling claims are true -- such as his assertion that technological civilizations have previously arisen and fallen, or that beings from other habitable planets have visited Earth -- it must be conceded that they are at least ethnographically true. That is, it's true that the Hopis believe these things, and it might benefit us to sincerely consider what White Bear is saying:

"Out of the long story of the Hopis arises a warning for you," White Bear tells us. "Perhaps this warning will not come too late."

Essentially, White Bear describes a succession of cycles, over vast periods of terrestrial time, of the development and destruction of human societies. Mankind progresses for a long period -- a golden age -- then progressively loses touch with his true "spiritual" nature through egoism and avarice, and this disharmony eventually manifests in the three-dimensional realm as natural disasters, conflict, wars, environmental degradation, and disease. In the Western view, these things happen to us, but in the Hopi worldview, spirit and form intimately intertwine, so man's disharmonious (evil) deeds take form in the physical environment as crises.

White Bear, with the help of his wife, Naomi, prepared an informative document that the couple provided to occasional visitors--including, apparently, Josef Blumrich, the NASA engineer who published a book in German called Kasskara und die Sieben Welten (Kasskara and the Seven Worlds), which has not been translated into English. "This is the history of my ancestors and the clans which came to this continent," the document begins. "The continent on which my people lived for a long time sank in the sea and people had to leave it. They had to leave it and go to a land in the east to make a new beginning."

White Bear describes Kasskara as a continent in the Pacific Ocean that sank. He said that Hawaii is a remnant of their original motherland, and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is the last remaining of several islands that helped Kasskaran refugees cross the vast expanse of ocean to South America. Kasskara was sinking at around the same time as the submergence of Atlantis, although Atlantis went down quickly, White Bear said, due to its heavier negative karma. Because Kasskara's offenses were not as serious, the retribution they suffered was lighter and the destruction happened more slowly. The population had time to flee.

White Bear felt it was important and necessary to inform the world about the Hopis' history and the previous cycles of advancement and destruction the world has undergone, but he was heavily criticized by some Hopis who believed that he should not have revealed these truths to the masses. White Bear had said, "It is time to speak about our people and to tell you who we are and why we are here in the hope that somebody one day will understand us. Even if it is me who speaks here it is the knowledge of the Hopis that you will know. Out of the long story of the Hopis arises a warning for you. You will understand later what I want to say when I tell my story,"This is why I speak now. That concerns us all. Perhaps this warning will not come too late."

According to White Bear, mankind lived in two other worlds (Tokpela and Tokpa) before emerging into the Third World, which included Kasskara and Atlantis, and then into our present Fourth World. These successive "worlds" generally correspond to various continents and time periods during which the Hopi's antecedents were granted protection by some very interesting beings they call "Kachinas," otherworldly beings with physical bodies that helped them survive planetary cataclysms and directed their migrations. The Kachina dolls known to tourists are simply representations meant to familiarize Hopi children with the various Kachina entities so they don't fear them during ceremonies.

In the First World, the "Taiowa" divinity created the human being and all things in this universe. He gave us brains and the capacity for knowledge. "He gave man all he needs in his life, and he gave him the laws and duties in this universe, which man must obey," White Bear said. He explained that the First World was destroyed by fire because people had become malicious. But his people -- those who in more recent times became the Hopis -- survived the destruction because they had been selected to preserve the knowledge through time. The Second World was destroyed by ice. Once again, his people survived and arrived in the Third World," the third continent. All these and later events are still alive in Hopi ceremonies.

The Third World: Kasskara

"The name of the Third World was Kasskara. Few people today know the significance of this very old word. I learned it from Otto Pentewa (a Hopi elder), who remembered it as the 'mother ground,'" White Bear said. "We also call it 'the country of the sun' because we like to refer to the sun and the soil which keep us alive."

Kasskara was a continent situated mostly south of the equator with a small portion in the north, White Bear said, and is probably identical with what we today call Lemuria, or Mu. "It was a very beautiful country. Compared with today, it was almost a paradise. We worked, but we did not need to work hard. Since our beginnings in the First World we had followed the plan of our Creator and cultivated our food ourselves," White Bear said. "In these times we had chosen corn as our principal food, and we brought it to the Second World and we continued to live with it in the Third World. When you see our corn think of the fact that the Hopis have had it since very old times, since the First World."

White Bear explained that the knowledge the Hopis seek and that was given to them relates to plants and animals. They could communicate with them. They had scientific knowledge but did not use it to manufacture objects that hurt people:

"People then had respect for one another. The clans had their own bosses, but they had in common a respected spiritual leader. In the life of the Hopis there always was a clan which had supremacy for a certain time in order to ensure that we fulfilled well our obligations and responsibilities--like our good behavior in life," White Bear said. "When we inherited this world, the Clan of the Bow held the leadership. For this reason the tribe chief of the Clan of the Bow was Kasskara's sovereign."

At the beginning all was well in Kasskara. Much later the men gradually began to lose the respect for one another; initially a few, then more and more. "As you see we are exactly like other men. I can compare that with what occurs today in the organizations: people want to have some rank and power; they want their share," White Bear said. "The same thing happened at Kasskara."

Atlantis

To the east of Kasskara was "Talawaitichqua," or the "Eastern country," a word that means roughly, "Land of the Morning Sun." White Bear said there was a large "surface of water" between Kasskara and Talawaitichqua, which he identified as the land we call "Atlantis".

"At the beginning of the Third World people of Atlantis were as peaceful as us. We have of course the same divine origin. They had the same symbols as us. But with time they changed. They started to explore the secrets of the Creator that Man should not know. There exist secrets which are only intended for the divinity, and when men started to study them they infringed on this law. In fact man has the same capacity as the Creator, but the Creator maintains secrets that men should not seek to understand," White Bear said, noting that "this business concerning the secrets" is very serious." He drew a parallel to our time to help us understand what the Hopis believe.

"Your civilization developed many things -- airplanes, for example. When my uncle led me to Oraibi to see the ancient inscription of a jet, which is naturally much older than your jets of today, he said to me, 'It would be very good to fly again through the air as our people did in the past,'" White Bear explained. "When there is a catastrophe somewhere far away, one can bring help like food drugs and tools. But a plane can also bring death to men hundreds of miles away, and in doing that, one will disobey the divine law."

White Bear asks how we can exclude ourselves from responsibility if we assist in conducting research that leads to destructive ends "Let's suppose that you made a scientific discovery in the field of rocketry and that somebody makes a bad use of your discovery. You would not do it, but it is your discovery," White Bear insists. "Do you really know where your responsibility begins and ends?"

The Hopi do not oppose technology and endorse research that will help man stay alive and healthy. "The Creator wants us to do it. He wants us to benefit from our life and have as little heavy work as possible and that all that is good -- all the joy, all the happiness of this world should become ours," White Bear said. "But now [researchers] try to produce artificial life, and one day also a human. Well, these things you should not do!" He said we can summarize all that in two sentences: "The divine Creator said to us, 'If you want to be my children, you should not use your knowledge to destroy kill, or misuse what I gave you. If you do not respect this law you are not my children.'"

White Bear explained that towards the end of the Third World, a very powerful and beautiful woman called Kickmongwuity rose to power as the queen of Atlantis. She used her beauty to manipulate the chiefs of her people, receiving so many jewels that she received the nickname "the Turquoise Woman." Kickmongwuity used her powers to subject these personalities, including scientists and politicians, and in this way she became sovereign of the entire continent. White Bear pointed out that Atlantis was similar to England -- a small country with great influence. Atlantis eventually extended its influence farther to the east in what is today Europe and Africa.

"The inhabitants of Atlantis had researched secrets of the Creator for which they were not spiritually ready. They had obtained knowledge of such things too early and used it to subjugate other people, and in doing so infringed on the divine order. They also studied other planets, and they even went there," White Bear said. "These were dead planets where no one could live, so they had thus to remain on our good old Earth." White Bear explained the reasons Atlantis turned against Kasskara:

"They knew that morally and spiritually we were much stronger, and that made them envious. This is also why the queen wanted to conquer our country and to subjugate our people. She threatened our sovereign [and said that she would] join together all her spaceships above our continent and destroy us from up there. But he refused to give in. For a long time talks were held, which one can also call conferences. All the great men of that time held meetings."

"As I already said, there were among us people who had become avid seekers of status and power. Their religious belief became weaker, and people did not have much respect any more for one another. We were in a situation which one can compare very well with the current situation."

"Within time the influence of [Kickmongwuity] led to a schism between our people. She started to get some of our people on her side, those men seeking power I mentioned. They walked away from our laws and said to themselves, "If we choose the side of the people of Atlantis and accept their requirements" we might later acquire a fair share of the power.'"

"The malicious ones took over. They had studied many secrets of the Creator that humanity should not know but we did not take part in this. We wanted to be and remain peaceful people. I believe that actually it was the Creator who used his capacity to keep us away from these things."

"The chiefs met many times. But the group of those who had scientific knowledge was much stronger, and they came to attack my people with the material of their capacities and their invention," White Bear said. "From very high in the air they directed their magnetic force on our cities. But those of our people who had not left the true way of our Creator were gathered in a certain area in order to be saved."

The Hopi believe that technological civilizations have arisen previously, much further back in time than most conventionally educated people can accept. Our general cultural timeline sets "Western civilization" as being about six thousand years old, largely due to the biblical Genesis with its 4004 BC start date for creation. We vaguely acknowledge that the ancient cultures of China and India might be eight or ten thousand years old, but the notion that there existed any advanced civilization before the end of the last Ice Age just isn't occurring to most of us. As writer Graham Hancock says so elegantly, "We're a species with amnesia."

Yet, in the Dialogues of Timaeus and Critias, even Plato's unfinished account of Atlantis suggests that we should push back the dates of civilization to at least 11 thousand years. In the account Solon is told by an Egyptian temple priest at Sais of Egypt's ancient age. "O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you," the priest said. Solon asked him what he meant. "I mean to say that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of man arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes," he said.

The priest explains to Solon that certain myths actually refer to astronomical phenomena. "There is a story, which even you (Greeks) have preserved, that once upon a time Phaeton, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, was not able to drive them in the path of his father and burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals," the priest told him, which may suggest why many ancient cultures diligently monitored astronomical cycles. Like the Hopi, the temple priest knew that over the ages technological civilizations have been destroyed by cataclysms and forgotten. Today, however, the prevailing attitude among most academics compels them to dismiss Plato's Atlantis tale as fabulous, despite its detail, just as others ignore the advanced mathematics and engineering necessary to have sited and built the Great Pyramid.

The Hopis don't perceive time in a straight line as we tend to. While we may assume that our civilization represents the pinnacle of human technological achievement, the Hopi wait patiently on their remote mesas for our version of civilization to disappear, which it inevitably must because it's disharmonious with the laws of the universe.

White Bear said he and other elders had met in a kiva at Shongopovi (Hopiland) to discuss their current situation. "We see at this moment occur the same things as those that occurred right before the destruction of the Third World. We are concerned because we know what will arrive," White Bear said. "We know that we have reached the point of no return."

(continued) Kasskara: Destruction of the Third World / Kachinas

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