Cherokee Star Constellation - Prophecy of the Rattlesnake
The Stars above and its configurations hold TIME UNTIME within
its grasp upon all life. As all cultures sustain a Zodiac system
written upon TIME UNTIME so also the Chickamaugan Cherokee of
the Americas hold also an Ancient Zodiac of the heavens.
Within the Zodiac of the Heavens of the Chickamauga Cherokee
are etched Ancient designs written upon and within the lines
of seeing. The Cherokee Zodiac is alive and moves and spins
upon the rings of TIME UNTIME. As the main outline remains its
hold and is stationed in the sky of stars its movement within
that frozen outline does indeed change with the movements of
the other elements. Elements within the rotations planets, stars,
and bodies of the heavens. As other cultures station their Zodiac
as a permanent fixture the Cherokee Zodiac morphs or changes
and becomes as if ALIVE. Always Alive, breaths, lives, and takes
upon each constellation its own deeming of things, TIME UNTIME,
and among those things, PROPHECY.
The Constellations of the Chickamaugan Cherokee are 13 fold
which contain the characterizations of mainly animals. Among
the many design configurations seen written upon the stars are
the designs of animals, objects, and many other elements of
TIME UNTIME. The figures of the sky are totally different from
other cultures of the Zodiac except for a rare few which seem
to be similar. The only one which seems to relative to similarity
is found within the Cherokee Constellation Scorpion and Snake
and this in relation to others as Scorpio and Serpent.
This is the story of only one of those constellations. This
is of the Cherokee Constellation Rattlesnake. And within this
one Constellation is found a PROPHECY. Within the Rattlesnake
of the Heavens is found TIME UNTIME foretold since the dawn
of TIME.
In the sky is found the figure of a Snake. And upon this snake
it is the outline of a Rattlesnake. Sometimes the Serpent and
the Rattlesnake take on its bearing of one or the other but
the Snake of the Rattlesnake is ITS design.
The Cherokee Rattlesnake Constellation is not like other cultures
of the world. The Cherokee Rattlesnake in the Heavens has a
head and winds itself back and forth with its body as in sidewinding
itself to its tail. The boundary of the Rattlesnake is unlike
the boundaries of other Zodiac cultures. In the Heavens the
Pleiades Star System is found as the tip of the Rattlesnake
tail.
The Rattlesnake of the Cherokee is very sacred and its sacredness
is written even in the Heavens. Upon the mouth of the Rattlesnake
is found 52 scales. These scales in number of 52 is written
upon the Calendar of the Cherokee and upon the wheels and rings
of TIME UNTIME. The Calendar of the Cherokee spins upon wheels
and rings as a sophisticated dating system. A dating system
that not only tells TIME of events, people, places, and things
but also a very holy and sacred element within the Cherokee
culture itself of ALL THINGS.
The Rattlesnake can sometimes be imaged as a serpent. To be
a Serpent or to be the Rattlesnake depends on the knowing of
the TIMES and TIMES of TIME UNTIME. To know the culture of the
Cherokee and its Ancient design upon LIFE. One MUST know the
things of TIME UNTIME in order to place the constellation as
a Rattlesnake or a Serpent. But this is another story.
The stationary outline is always of the Rattlesnake. However
upon the wheels of the Cherokee calendar is also found when
where how what who in its changing and transformation. The transformation
is not the changing of the shape of the Rattlesnake but the
addition or subtraction of elements upon the snake itself. These
things also tell the tales of the universe and all its bearing
of what was, what is, and to be.
On the Cherokee Calendar a great thing is foretold of things
about to take shape within all things upon the earth, the heavens,
and the universe. And the Rattlesnake Constellation is one of
those which speaks as a voice of TIME UNTIME of things to be.
Upon the Cherokee Calendar Rings and written in the Star Constellation
Rattlesnake is a prophecy of TIME UNTIME.
And so it is thus foretold ....
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 Constelation 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.
1986 Continental Indigenous Council,
Fairbanks, Alaska By Lee Brown, Cherokee
There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock. There was the
cycle of the plant. And now we are in the cycle of the animal
coming to the end of that and beginning the cycle of the human
being. When we get into the cycle of the human being, the highest
and greatest powers that we have will be released to us.
At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great
Spirit made an appearance and gathered the peoples of this earth
together, and said to the human beings. "I'm going to send
you to four directions and over time I?m going to change you
to four colors. I'm going to give you some teachings, and you
will call these the Original Teachings; when you come back together
with each other, you will share these so that you can live and
have peace on Earth, and a great civilization will come about.
During the cycle of time, I'm going to give each of you two
stone tablets. When I give you those stone tablets, don't cast
them upon the ground. If any of the sisters and brothers cast
their tablets on the ground, not only will human beings have
a hard time, but almost the earth itself will die."
And so He gave each of us a responsibility, and we call that
the Guardianship.
To the Indian people, the red people, He gave the Guardianship
of the Earth. We are to learn during this cycle of time the
teachings of the Earth; the plants that grow from the Earth;
the foods that you can eat, and the herbs that heal. Then, when
we came back together with the other sisters and brothers, we
could share this knowledge with them. Something good was to
happen on the Earth.
To the South He gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship
of the Wind. They were to learn about the sky and breathing
and how to take that within ourselves for spiritual advancement.
They were to share that with us at this time.
To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship
of the Water. They were to learn the teachings of the water,
which is the chief of the elements, being the most humble and
the most powerful. The elders have told me that the black people
would bring the teachings of the water.
To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship
of the Fire. If you look at the center of many of the things
they do, you will find the fire. They say a light bulb is the
white man's fire. If you look at the center of a car you will
find a spark. If you look at the center of the airplane and
the train you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and also
moves. This is why it was the white sisters and brothers who
began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite us as a
human family.
And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of
the four races two stone tablets. Ours are kept at the Hopi
Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners Area on Third Mesa. I
talked to people from the black race, and their stone tablets
are at the foot of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu
Tribe. I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years
ago.
A medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel
in the middle of the gathering. It had the four colors from
the four directions; he asked the people, "Where is this
from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota,
maybe Saskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya."
It was beaded just like ours, with the same colors.
The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by
the Tibetans. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation
to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet.
The Tibetan word for sun is the Hopi word for moon, and the
Hopi word for sun is the Tibetan word for moon.
The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are
the Swiss. In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family
brings out its mask. They still know the colors of the families,
and they still know the symbols, some of them. Each of these
four peoples happen to live in the mountains.
Each of the four races went to their directions and learned
their teachings. It was in Newsweek not long ago that eight
out of ten foods that people eat on the earth are developed
here in the western hemisphere because that is our Guardianship
-- to learn the teachings of the earth and the things that grow
from the Earth. We were given a sacred handshake to demonstrate,
when we came back together as sisters and brothers, that we
still remember the teachings.
It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that
the first sisters and brothers who would come back to them would
come as turtles across the land. They would be human beings,
but they would come as turtles. So when the time came close,
the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the turtles that
would come across the land.
They got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They
looked out across the desert, and they saw the Spanish conquistadores
coming, covered in armor, like turtles across the land. So this
was them. So they went out to the Spanish man, and they extended
their hand, hoping for the handshake. But into the hand the
Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so word spread throughout
North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe
some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness
of all things and all the human beings were going to suffer
for this on the Earth.
So tribes began to send people to the mountains to have visions
to try to figure out how they could survive. At that time there
were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called
the mound civilization: cities built on great mounds. Those
mounds are still there. They began to try to learn to live off
the land because they knew a hard time was going to come. They
began to send people to have visions to see how we could survive
this time. They were told in the prophecies that we should try
to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness
of all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace
on Earth. But if we did not do that, if we had not come together
as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth with
His hand and shake it.
The elders on the west coast prophesied that they would then
begin to build a black ribbon. And on this black ribbon there
would move a bug. And when you begin to see this bug moving
on the land, that was the sign for the First Shaking of the
Earth. The First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that
this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would
begin to move and fly in the air. And by the end of this shaking
this bug will be in the air around the world. Behind it would
be a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire
earth would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this
would cause many diseases that would get more and more complicated.
So the bug moving on the land, of course it?s easy to see now.
In 1908 the Model-T Ford was mass-produced for the first time.
So the elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about
to come about -- that was the First World War.
In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for
the first time. That was that bug moving into the sky. And so
they knew something very important would happen. There would
be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this
land, and so the elders began to watch for this. They began
to hear that there was going to be a League of Nations in San
Francisco, so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or
so, and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if
the Indian people could be included in the League of Nations.
The United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation
is a separate and semi-sovereign nation, not a part of the United
States but protected by it. This became a concern because people
didn?t want the reservations to become more and more separate.
They didn?t want them to be considered nations. So they did
not write back, and the Native people were left out of the League
of Nations so that circle was incomplete. In the League of Nations
circle there was a southern door, the yellow people; there was
a western door, the black people; there was a northern door,
the white people; but the eastern door was not attended. The
elders knew that peace would not come on the Earth until the
circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat
in the circle and shared their teachings, then peace would come
on earth.
So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little
it. There would be a cobweb built around the earth, and people
would talk across this cobweb. When this talking cobweb, the
telephone, was built around the earth, a sign of life would
appear in the east, but it would tilt and bring death (the swastika
of the Nazis). It would come with the sun. But the sun itself
would rise one day, not in the east but in the west (the rising
sun of the Japanese Empire).
So the elders said, "When you see the sun rising in the
east, and you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the
east, you will know that the Great Death is to come upon the
earth. Now is when the Great Spirit will grab the earth again
in His hand and shake it, and this shaking will be worse than
the first."
So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika,
and the rising sun in the east was the Rising Sun of Japan.
These two symbols are carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders
saw these two flags, they knew that these were the signs that
the earth was to be shaken again.
The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called
the gourd of ashes. They said the gourd of ashes will fall from
the air. It will make the people like blades of grass in the
prairie fire, and things will not grow for many seasons. The
atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes, it was the best-kept secret
in the history of the US. The elders wanted to speak about it
in 1920.
They would have spoken of it and foretold its coming if they
could have entered into the League of Nations. The elders tried
to contact President Roosevelt to ask him not to use the gourd
of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and
eventually cause even greater destruction and a the Third Shaking
of the Earth, the Third World War.
So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they
saw the gourd of ashes fall from the sky, there would be an
attempt to make peace on the other side of this land. And because
the peace attempt on the west coast had failed, they would build
a special house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and
all the nations and peoples of the Earth would come to this
house, and it would be called the House of Mica, and it would
shine like the mica on the desert shines.
So the elders began to see they were building the United Nations
made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert
so they knew this was the House of Mica, and all the peoples
of the earth should go to it. So they met and talked about this.
They said that in the 1920's they had written and they had not
been responded to, so they said this time we?d better go to
the front door of the House of Mica because things might get
a lot worse.
So elders representing a number of tribes drove to New York
City. When the United Nations opened, they went to the front
door of the house of Mica and they said these words, "We
represent the indigenous people of North America, and we wish
to address the nations of the Earth. We're going to give you
four days to consider whether or not we will be allowed to speak."
They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York
State. Four days later they came back, and I believe the nations
of the earth heard that the Indians had come to the door. And
they voted to let the Indians in. They wanted to hear what they
had to say. But the United States is one of five nations of
the United Nations with a veto power, and still they were concerned
because this time the Native sovereignty was even stronger.
And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the Native people.
So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth. So
they retreated to the Six Nations Reserve, and they talked about
this, and they said the time is really getting close now --
1949. They said, "We're going to divide the United States
into four sections, and each year we?re going to have a gathering.
We?re going to call these the White Roots of Peace Gatherings."
They began to have these around 1950. And they authorized certain
people to speak in English for the first time about these prophecies.
One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was
Thomas Banyaca. He was authorized to speak in English about
what was on the stone tablets, and he has dedicated his life
to doing this. And they began to tell us at these gatherings,
"You're going to see a time in your lifetime when the human
beings are going to find the blueprint that makes us."
They call that now DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. They said, "They're
going to cut this blueprint."
They call that now genetic splicing. And they said they're
going to make new animals upon the Earth, and they're going
to think these are going to help us. And it's going to seem
like they do help us. But maybe the grandchildren and great-grandchildren
are going to suffer.
The elders said long ago, "They will release these things,
and they will use them." This is going to be released not
too long from now. They are making new animals. The elders talked
about this. "You will see new animals, and even the old
animals will come back, animals that people thought had disappeared.
They will find them here and there. They?ll begin to reappear."
"You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its
highest in the night, and it will land upon the moon. And at
that time, many of the Native people will be sleeping, which
symbolically means they have lost their teachings. We're at
that time now. The Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969. When
that spaceship landed, they sent back the message, "The
Eagle has landed."
Traditionally, Native people from clear up in the Inuit region
have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to the Quechuas
in South America.
At this time you're going to see that things will speed up,
that people on the Earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren
will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time
for children. It will seem like time is going faster and faster.
The elders advised us that, as things speed up, you yourself
should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you go. Because
there"s going to come a time when the Earth is going to
be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has shaken the Earth
two times: the First and Second World Wars to remind us that
we are a human family, to remind us that we should have greeted
each other as brothers and sisters. We had a chance after each
shaking to come together in a circle that would have brought
peace on earth, but we missed that.
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Now they are talking about the sign for the Third Shaking of
the Earth. They said they?re going to build what the elders
called the house in the sky. In the 1950's they talked about
this: they will build a house and throw it in the sky. When
you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will
know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this time
not with one hand, but with both hands.
When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to
shake the Earth a third time, and whoever dropped that gourd
of ashes, upon them it is going to drop.
They say at that time there will be villages in this land so
great that when you stand in the villages you will not be able
to see out, and in the prophecies these are called villages
of stone, or prairies of stone.
And they said the stone will grow up from the ground, and you
will not be able to see beyond the village.
At the center of each and every one of these villages will
be Native people, and they will walk as hollow shells upon a
prairie of stone.
They said hollow shells, which means they will have lost any
of their traditional understandings; they will be empty within.
They said that, after the Eagle lands on the moon, some of
these people will begin to leave these prairies of stone and
come home and take up some of the old ways and begin to make
themselves reborn, because it?s a new day.
But many will not.
And they said there's going to come a time when in the morning
the sun is going to rise, and this village of stone will be
there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming from
the ground.
They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those villages
of stone, when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn
to steam also because they never woke up and left the village.
They say there?s going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth.
It's not going to be a good thing to see, but we will survive
it. We will survive it.
And when we survive it, there?s going to be another attempt
to make a circle of the human beings on the earth. And this
time the Native people will not have to petition to join but
will be invited to enter the circle because they say the attitude
toward us will have changed by then.
People will let us into the circle, and all the four colors
of the four directions will share their wisdom, and there will
be a peace on earth.
This is coming close.
The prophecies are always either/or. We could have come together
way back there in 1565, and we could have had a great civilization,
but we didn't.
Always along the path of these prophecies, we could have come
together. We still could. If we could stop the racial and religious
disharmony, we would not have to go through this third shaking.
The elders say the chance of that is pretty slim. It seems
to me like it's pretty slim, too. But they say what we can do
is we can cushion it so it won't be quite as bad. How do we
do this? We do this by sharing the teaching that will reunite
us.
