Inspiring Times - The World's Three Helpers

"We were told to settle permanently here in Hopiland where we met the Great Spirit and to wait for Older Brother, who went east, to return to us. When he returns to this land he will place his stone tablets side by side to show all the world that they are our true brothers - when the road in the sky has been fulfilled and when the inventing of something, in Hopi means, gourd of ashes, a gourd that, when it drops upon the earth will boil everything within a large space and nothing will grow for a very long time.

"We were told that three helpers who were commissioned by the Great Spirit to help Hopi bring about the peaceful life on earth would appear to help us and that we should not change our homes, our ceremonials, our hair, because the true helpers might not recognize us as the true Hopi. So we have been waiting all these years.

"It is known that our true white brother, when he comes, will bring with him the sacred stone tablets. With him there will be two great ones, both very wise and powerful. One will have a symbol or sign which represents purity and is Female, a producer of life. The third one, or the second one of the two helpers to our True White Brother, will have a sign of a symbol of the sun. He, too, will be very wise and powerful. One will have the symbol of the moja, or cross.

"We have in our sacred Kachina ceremonies a gourd rattle which is still in use today with these symbols of these powerful helpers of our True Brother. It is also prophesied that, if the three helpers chosen by the Creator fulfill their sacred mission, and even if there are only one, two, or three of the true Hopi who remain holding fast to the last ancient teaching and instructions the Great Spirit, Massauu will appear before all, and our World will be saved.

"The three will lay out a new life plan which leads to everlasting life and peace. The earth will become new as it was from the beginning. Flowers will bloom again, wild game will return to barren lands, and there will be abundance of food for all. Those who are saved will share everything equally and they all will recognize Great Spirit and speak one language." [WGFT Ed: I think this means speak from our hearts]

~ Hopi Nation elder, Dan Evehema ~