In regard to Prophecies concerning the Rainbow Gathering, its Covenant of Peace and the coming of White Buffalo Calf Woman to restore the Rainbow Nation

As you may know, in 1972 the prophetic sign of the white buffalo calf appeared on the mountain during the very first Rainbow Family Gathering. That year the Rainbow Nation gathered for the first time in Colorado and overnight it had snowed and then rained, partially melting the snow. When they awoke they saw the shape of a white buffalo calf in the remaining snow on the mountainside. This was in fulfillment of a Hopi Prophecy which says that:

“The great-great grandchildren of the white conqueror would grow their hair long and rebel against society, travel east and west, gather in the mountains under the symbol of the White Buffalo. They would dance, sing and chant in many tongues. Their symbol would be the dove. They would be Brothers and Sisters to the Hopi — people of peace. They would come and go, yet be a sign that the Spirit is returning.”

You can see a film of the 1972 event and its gradually melting snow calf from here: http://www.woodstockmuseum.com/1st_rainbow.html)

Now, a buffalo calf doesn’t look the same as a grown buffalo. Its back is straight and its legs are longer relative to its size, and fairly straight. So it was definitely the image of a buffalo calf and not a grown buffalo that they saw on the mountain that day thirty-six years ago.

Here is a prophecy from the ancient Stregherian tradition that seems related to the fact that this Rainbow Covenant is now 36 years old:

“When the Age of the Daughter replaces that of the Son, then shall She appear. She will be thirty-six, and She will come in power.” – Prophecy from Aradia[*]

Similar to the Native American teaching that we have passed through several ages, the prophet Aradia taught that we had the age of the Mother, the Father and the Son and now comes the Age of the Daughter which is regarded as the final age to dawn upon the earth. The designation of “daughter” corresponds with the prophecy of the female white buffalo calf, i.e. a “daughter” buffalo.

Aradia said: “When the Age of the Daughter replaces that of the Son, then she shall appear who is to establish Reason. And she will be thirty-six at this time.[†] And she will come in Power, for the Silent Prophet will have established the way. As this age progresses great trial and tribulation shall befall the people of all nations. And out of the ashes shall arise the new World of Reason. People shall no longer be ruled by governments. Nor shall one people oppress another. There shall be no rulers, but only teachers and counselors. No one shall possess power over another, nor shall anyone restrict or control any other person. The earth shall be of one people, and they will all live under the emanating rays of Love, Peace and Reason. When the Age of the Daughter begins to replace that of the Son, then shall my prophet appear. And many shall call this one the Silent Prophet. Changes shall occur in the Earth which people of that time have never seen before. And there will be great renewal and upheaval.”

This Covenant seems very similar to the one given by Jesus through Saint Paul where it says, “And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.” Hebrews 8:11

So, we see that the Hopi prophecy concerning the rainbow people was that the 1972 gathering under the sign of the white buffalo calf meant that the Spirit was soon to return and the prophecy of Aradia was that “She” — that is, this Spirit –would come in Power after 36 years.

One meaning is this, concerning the Rainbow Nation:

Now the 36 years have passed and thus when we were collectively gathered in the State of Wyoming, participating in our Nation’s Hoop on the 4^th of July, She showed us the sign by which she is known to the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations (collectively known as the Sioux) and that is the sign of the White Buffalo. The state flag of Wyoming is that of a White Buffalo and it declares that Wyoming is the “Equality State” because of its early championing of Equal Rights for Women. (There is a very interesting story behind that but I won’t get into those details just now.)

The last time the Rainbow Gathering was in Wyoming was in 1994. Forty-Four days after that Gathering, “Miracle” a white female buffalo calf, was born on the Heider farm near Janesville, Wisconsin. This was on August 20, 1994, and her birth signified many things to the Sioux. Some recognized it to mean that the return of White Buffalo Calf Woman (Ptesanwin) was imminent.

As soon as he got the news of the white buffalo calf’s birth, Floyd Hand – Looks For Buffalo, a Lakota Medicine Man, said (as quoted in the January 1995 issue of Spin Magazine): “For us, the Indians, it is like the return of the Christ for the white people.”

In the spring before Miracle was born Looks-for-Buffalo (Floyd Hand) had a dream of a beautiful lady in a rainbow-colored dress who said she soon would bring a message of peace and unity to mankind.

As quoted by the reporter in Spin: “‘She’s like the Madonna of Christianity,’ Floyd Hand the medicine man explained to me. ‘I had my first vision of her in 1968. I told the priest on our reservation about it, and he laughed at me. He said, We don’t see the Lady here in North America, Floyd. We only see her in Italy. … In March of 1994, Hand had a vision of the Lady again, in which she said that she would be returning when the cherries are black, which happens to be in August. Like a train on time, that’s just when she pulled up.”

Thus, the calf was born as foretold. This event caused a new spiritual revival amongst the Sioux. In the winter of 1995, during a four day praying fast (Hambleca), Standing Elk, a Ihanktowan Dakota Spiritual Advisor and Sundance Chief, was instructed in a vision to organize the first Star Knowledge Conference to be held in June of 1996. At that conference Floyd Hand announced that White Buffalo Calf Woman would return in 1998.

“In 1998 White Buffalo Calf Woman is coming back to Turtle Island [North America]. There are four omens. The First Omen was the recent birth of a white buffalo calf on a White ranch, whose hide eventually turned the other colors of the Four Nations (yellow, red and black). The Second Omen was the birth of another white buffalo calf to a Sioux rancher, but it died… The Third Omen was a third white calf, but no one is listening despite human suffering and death. The Fourth Omen will be the Star People coming and visiting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.”

The last of these signs may have been fulfilled at the Star Knowledge Conference in New Mexico in the spring of 1998. That year the Rainbow Gathering was in Arizona but even though this Spirit was in the world it clearly wasn’t yet time for Ptesanwin to make herself known to the Rainbow Nation. The visions of Native American Elders reveal that she has been present since ’98, but only the Spirit knows why she has yet to make herself known to the Native American Tribes. Perhaps it is that there are more signs that are not yet fulfilled or that the people are not yet ready.

It should be clear that even though Ptesanwin has chosen to embody herself in various emissaries from time to time, the full Reality of this Spirit is far beyond anything that could be encompassed permanently by any single human being.

If you are not already familiar with the story of White Buffalo Calf Woman, here is a link to one of the many versions of it: http://www.wolflodge.org/wolflodge/voices/wbcwmn.htm   Note: the date of 1997 given on that web-site for the birth of the first white calf is not accurate.

So we do not know for certain when she will make herself known, but we do know, from the various signs, that this is the general time-frame for when this is to occur. Looks-for-Buffalo said further that:

“Part of White Buffalo Woman’s original prophecy was to divide the future into seven fires, or ages. She promised to return during the last fire, and bring with her a New and Final Chance for Reason. ‘During the seventh fire,’ Hand said, ‘a new Red Nation can be formed — red being the union of red, white, black, and yellow. We will be able to retrace our steps and examine what we have done wrong. We are not preserving what has been given us to care for. We are polluting the Earth. We’ve become our own enemy. During the seventh fire, the light-skinned man will be given a choice between his technologies and his nature. If he chooses his nature, there is still a chance for harmony in this world. If he makes the wrong choice, he will bring on the destruction of all of us.’” (article in Jan ’95 edition of ‘Spin’, quoting, Floyd Hand)

Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux gave us the beginning point of this New and Final Chance for Reason: “… The Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for Light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.”

Crazy Horse spoke these words as he sat smoking the Sacred Pipe with Sitting Bull for the last time, four days before he was assassinated in September 1877.

So after the passing of seven generations from Crazy Horse’s vision we come to the time of fulfillment of the prophecy. A simple calculation reveals that as a generation is considered to be about 20 years (time for a human infant to grow to maturity and then have babies in turn), seven generations would be 140 years. Counting from 1877 we find that the last generation, the 7^th, began in 1997. So this is generally in accord with Floyd Hand’s vision too.

Next, under: The Messiah and the 144,000 Rainbow Warriors (are you one of them?), details from Black Elk’s Prophecy will be included.

Black Elk – Oglala Sioux Warrior and Medicine Man, was born in 1863. He was alive during the Battle of the Little Big Horn and years later – witnessing the massacre at Wounded Knee, fought back and was able to rescue some of the women and children.

In 1872, at nine years of age, Black Elk visited heaven and had visions of the future. In this vision he saw that the “Hoop” (circle of spirit-power and of social unity & harmony) of the Sioux Nation, and of all other peoples as well, would soon be broken. This vision occured 100 years before the first Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes in 1972.

Mitakuye Oyasin

(We Are All Related in the Sacred Hoop of Life)

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[*] Aradia de Toscano was born August 13, 1313 in Volterra, Italy. She lived with the peasant slaves who had escaped into the hills and forests near Nemi, Italy. She taught the Old Religion and preached freedom.

 

[†] At the Star Conference circa 1997-98 the Native Mothers said the Hopi fifth age had begun.