The Ojibwa 7th Fire Prophecy fulfilled

[Anonymousecoview]

The Ojibwa Seventh-fire Prophecy states: "Look for an island shaped like a turtle that will be an instrument in the purification of the earth."
30 years ago such a prophecy might not have meant so much to us, but with the global warming crisis of today... doesn't it make you want to look? Now google maps Easter Island...
Why Easter Island? This answer to this question was confirmed to me when an Ojibwa woman shared with me the conviction of her Ojibwa Grandfather, that Easter Island is the turtle shaped island they were to look for and its stone monuments and undeciphered writing tablets can re-teach and motivate us to live in harmony with the earth again. For a link to a novel based on the first time decipherment of the Easter Island tablets, come and see:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/127636924/Finding-Turtle-Island

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. "Turtle Island" is the First Nations name for the continent of North America. nt

[Anonymousecoview]

2. Yes and...

It is true that many if not most First Nations associate their continent with Turtle Island. Others consider South American as another, the World itself as another, or a mythical island only understood in dreams or vision quest. The Ojibwa spent their original migration looking for a turtle shaped island around the bodies of water across their territory. Others consider local land forms, such as Turtle Mountain (the Frank Slide, Alberta) of the Blackfoot. It is a very common mythical and actual location among Indigenous people and mythology. Easter Island is also considered, confirmed by an Ojibwa Grandfather and the early ancestors of Easter Island who named their island, Te Pito te Henua (The End of the Earth or the Naval of the Turtle)

[frogmarch]

3. Here it is.

It’s one of the islands in the Republic of the Maldives.

If this island doesn’t look like a turtle, I don’t know what does. Well, other than a turtle.

[Anonymousecoview]

4. It is part of the story

Indigenous Worldview and mythology is not designed with the either/or philosophy of functional worldviews. By functional, consider the Industrial Revolutions contribution to language. Each word is designed to play a single part in phrases in order to carry out the task the sentence conveys. Even in the most creative novels, every sentence tends to tell it like it is. Indigenous worldview is sometimes like this. But when telling story one word may have several meanings that relate to an epic of experiences tied into certain values expected by the youth hearing the story who follows the elder speaker by way of passage rite into the story itself which weaves the human identity into the land. Given the necessary and universal appeal of this worldview, you will find the same story branching out all over the world. So Turtle Island can be any mountain or any island. To say it is Easter Island, the most remote location on earth, is to say that all people can share in the values of this story.

[frogmarch]

5. "functional worldview" =

reality, and "indigenous worldview" = mythology passed along in a family, tribe or other associated group of people through storytelling and the like. Each generation of listeners, or individuals within this association, may have a different interpretation of the myth or to stories pertaining to the myth, based on personal experiences, and any or all of these interpretations may become incorporated into the myth. There's nothing mystical about that.

I'd suggest you post your mystical thoughts concerning the Ojibwa prophecy in the Seekers of Unique Paths group, but I see that you already have, as you also have in the Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience group.

[leftyohiolib]

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