Hopi prophecy
2012 Rare video 1 of 5
Here are some videos I came across one day. They
were taken in 1986 at an elementary school. I
found it very weird to watch it 23 years later
and see how much the world had changed. I'll bet
the man is still alive. He can definitely understand
it now better than in 1986.
The following was taken from a description from
the 5th video in the list:
The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological
tradition stretching back over centuries. However,
it is difficult to definitively state what all
Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions
of many other societies, Hopi mythology is not
always told consistently and each Hopi mesa, or
even each village, may have its own version of
a particular story. But, "in essence the
variants of the Hopi myth bear marked similarity
to one another." It is also not clear that
those stories which are told to non-Hopis, such
as anthropologists and ethnographers, represent
genuine Hopi beliefs or are merely stories told
to the curious while keeping safe the Hopi's more
sacred doctrines. As folklorist Harold Courlander
states, "there is a Hopi reticence about
discussing matters that could be considered ritual
secrets or religion-oriented traditions."
David Roberts continues that "the secrecy
that lies at the heart of Puebloan [including
Hopi] life...long predates European contact, forming
an intrinsic feature of the culture." In
addition, the Hopis have always been willing to
assimilate foreign religious ideas into their
cosmology if they are proven effective for such
practical necessities as bringing rain. As such,
it is important to note that the Hopi had at least
some contact with Europeans beginning the 16th
century, and some believe that European Christian
traditions may have entered into Hopi cosmology
at some point. Indeed, Spanish missions were built
in several Hopi villages starting in 1629 and
were in operation until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
However, after the revolt, it was the Hopi alone
of all the Pueblo tribes who kept the Spanish
out of their villages permanently, and regular
contact with whites did not begin again until
nearly two centuries later. The Hopi mesas have
therefore been seen as "relatively unacculturated"
at least through the early twentieth century,
and it may be posited that the European influence
on the core themes of Hopi mythology was slight.
