Hopi Prophecies or when the blue star Kachina dances in the plaza
By Yutka
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Fight mind against matter, when Saquasohuh
The Blue Star Kachina dances in the plaza
and removes his mask!
The children were laughing, when the great flood receded.
Great Spirit, we promise you, they said,
never to turn away from you.
We will look after the stone tablets you gave us,
guard, protect and hold them in trust, until you return,
as the past grows longer, and the future grows shorter
and you say: I am the First and I am the Last.
Fight knowledge against ignorance, when Saquasohuh
the Blue Star Kachina dances in the plaza
and removes his mask!
The children were dying, when the white men
took our lands in their spinning wheels,
filling them with their voices. They struck us
with thunder, killed our buffaloes and overran our prairies
with their own long-horned beasts.
They criss-crossed our plains with giant spider webs,
fed fire to snakes of iron and travelled on barren rivers of stone.
Fight wisdom against folly, when Saquasohuh
the Blue Star Kachina dances in the plaza
and removes his mask!
The children will be watching, when the sea is turning black
and many living things are dying.
Columns of smoke will rise skyward and our totem poles
will speak to whoever will listen.
There is a dwelling-place in the skies
that shall fall with a great crash. When the blue star
is born, the ceremonies of our people will cease.
Fight spirit against flesh, when Saquasohuh
the Blue Star Kachina dances in the plaza
and removes his mask!
The children are crying, when Kachina is showing his face
The end has come, no more faith in the old,
for Oraibi will mark a new circle of Hopi life.
The people from the east will go to war and
destroy the southern lands and people.
But the Hopi land will remain,
where a shelter is heart peace,
for brothers are one without evil.
Rejoyce, Hopi children,
open your eyes and take notice, when Saquasohuh
the Blue Star Kachina dances in the plaza
and removes his mask!
For Maasau, Great Spirit of all Spirits, who
travels under the guidance of stars,
will bring the virgin with butterfly hair
riding in a dome-shaped craft.
The day of purification has come,
when the Blue Star Kachina rises in the heavens,
the Fifth World will emerge.
Then we true Hopis will fly to other planets
in ships without wings.
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