The Kachin SHIELDS AND THEIR FLYING Hopi Indians of Arizona tradition

February 8, 2010

Ancient flying machines are part of the traditions of many cultures from ancient times, all over the world.
Revered Hindu texts like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata describe airships Vamana, who say they were also used for combat.
Among the hieroglyphics on the wall of an Egyptian temple of 3000 years ago, at Abydos, are shown what appear to be modern airplanes and helicopters.
For some, the engravings on stone discs that would have been found in caves on the Chinese-Tibetan border would tell stories of an extraterrestrial race called the Dropa, whose spacecraft would have fallen to Earth 12000 years ago.
The Hopi Indians lived here for over a thousand years on three mesas in northern Arizona. Even their legends relate to aircraft, perhaps from Orion.

The Hopi may have settled on three major mesas in Arizona because they wanted to reflect the position of the stars in their constellation of ancient origin. (See The OrionZone Gary A. David).
Those magical flying shields, paatuwvota called, existed in the Third World in an earlier era, which was destroyed by a great flood. It was a period of flourishing civilization, which built great cities and trade routes. In a message delivered to the United Nations, Thomas Banyacya Hopi Coyote Clan said:
"The people invented many machines and conveniences of high technology, some of which have not yet been observed in this age." We, of course, we recognize this description as a striking echo of Atlantis.
In one legend the flying shield is associated with Sotuknang, the Hopi god of the sky. It seems that a devastating flood destroyed Palatkwapi, "the red city in the south," perhaps located in the red rock country in Sedona, Arizona. Shortly after a brother named Tiwahongva Tawiayisnima and her sister, who had been forgotten in the chaos and abandoned by their fleeing parents, set off on a journey to find them.
In the evening they decided to camp. They were getting ready for dinner when they heard a great roar over their heads. The children were very frightened and wondered what strange thing might be. Her brother shook his sister in the chest, while a great to be descended from the sky. She wore a costume that glittered like ice (metallic spacesuit?), While his head and his face shone like a star. He said: "Do not be afraid. My name is Sotuknang. Because of my sympathy for your plight, I came to help. Climb on my paatuwvota and continue our journey together. "

Design of the Hopi sky god Sotuknang.

Then he took on his shield and went flying into the sky, so that they could see for many miles around. Fed the hungry children with ripe melons and told them they had to trust in him and in his teaching, which would communicate to them through dreams. Finally, he landed a short distance from the country in which their parents had settled, said goodbye to the young, and flew back into the clouds. Forever grateful to the God of heaven, brother and sister walked to the village to be reunited with their parents.

Sotuknang mask.

Since the Hopi did not have items like plates, which could fly, they gave the name deriving from the object to the object of their culture closer to that form, that is, the shield of the warrior. The word tuwvota specifically indicates this type of protection. Strangely, the concept of war in Hopi mythology is connected with the stars. The use of tuwvota rather a most common word that means 'hard' or 'circle' then suggests a celestial origin for paatuwvota.
Because the Hopi term paa means 'water', probably refers to the expanding paatuwvota of concentric rings in the water. It could be a metaphor to describe how the device on board the aircraft seemed to work. Its patuka word, or 'spindle', can also describe the rotational movement of the shield. In addition, the prefix 'pa' denotes wonder or fear. For the people of the desert, water is equal to wonder, but 'pa' suggests perhaps the reaction to the extraordinary means of transport.
The tradition of flying shield also appears in rock art. The photo below is of an ancient petroglyph, or carved on the rock, located near Winslow, Arizona, which appears to show a triangular shape of the vehicle.

Petroglyph of a spacecraft with delta wings?

Grandpa Martin Gashweseoma of Hotevilla (Third Mesa) next to a petroglyph, perhaps representing a "flying shield".

In his book Mexico Mystique, Frank Waters, a non-Indian expert on the life of the Hopi, writes:
"Second Mesa near an ancient petroglyph depicts Mishongnovi an object shaped like a dome, which rests on an arrow that represents the journey through space, and the head of a Hopi maiden representing the pristine purity. Since the Hopi believe that other planets are inhabited, this is a petroglyph paatuwvota or 'flying shield' like a 'flying saucer' who came here early. So now at the end of the sacred beings who will come from another planet, which they say Venus, flying saucers. Many Hopi traditionalists have recently reported seeing flying saucers, all piloted by beings called kachinas. "
Some readers may be familiar with wooden kachina dolls carved by the Hopis. (See photo).
The Kachina are not gods, but spirits who act as mediators between God and man. They may take the form of any animal, plant, celestial body, or creature from another world. During the spring and early summer the Hopi ceremonial cycle perform a dance, dressed as kachinas, to attract the rain and the general welfare of the tribe.

Eototo, chief kachina (left) and Ahola, his lieutenant.
Hopi kachina dolls at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
The more correct spelling Katsina (as the name of an ancient city in Nigeria).
The Hebrew word for "official" in the Bible and Katsina.

Just like the fallen angels of the Bible (see Genesis 6:1-4), it is stated that the kachinas have sometimes coupled with Hopi women. This foreshadows the contemporary theme of abduction by aliens for breeding purposes.
A Hopi legend tells of a young wife who accompanied her handsome husband to his village of Kana kachina Mishongnovi on Second Mesa, on a flying shield.

Kana kachina doll.

"When the shield is raised, all the kachinas emitted a loud noise. The show was incredible, every conceivable kind of kachina was present. All of a sudden the couple flew off, flashes of lightning were visible in the air and felt the rumble of thunder. When the shield rose higher, a drizzle began to fall. The kachinas accompanied them ... His parents went to the edge of the mesa to look out. Looking down from the edge of the mesa, they saw an incredible number of people coming across the plain. To their amazement they were all kachinas, singing and shouting their calls in a pandemonium. "
This song is taken from a book called Earth Fire: A Hopi Legend of the eruption of Sunset Crater, co-authors Ekkehart Malotki, a white professor of languages at Northern Arizona University, and Michael Lomatuwayima, a Hopi village-shrine of the Third Mesa, Hotevilla. The Kana kachina is associated with the volcanic eruption which began in 1064 AD, who created no longer exists Sunset Crater, located near San Francisco Peaks. Another sixty miles north-east, a large rock rectangular, below the village of Mishongnovi, is also known as 'the home of the kachinas Kana'.
As the procession advanced from the peaks 'kachina' to Second Mesa, carrying a large quantity of corn and melons on his shoulders, as gifts for the Hopi. This diverse group of divine messengers must have been a very striking sight. In fact, the Hopi kachina sometimes refer to as 'beautiful creatures'. This designation emphasizes not only their aesthetically pleasing, but also their effective role as belonging to a kinship system.
Long ago, kachinas were adopted into the clans, with various plants and animals, during the migrations that took place after the Hopi emerged from the Underworld - the Third World, previously mentioned. Their presence was clearly physical or tangible, compared to the supernatural or ethereal. In other words, their influence was felt once directly on a material level. Over time, however, social and religious corruption - a recurring theme in Hopi thought - this bizarre forced but gentle 'people' to abandon the American Southwest. From that time until today, the kachinas appear for the most part only in the form of spirits.
Some Hopi kachina maneuver still believe that these mysterious aircraft. In his book The Land Papers, the author Hopi / Apache Robert Morning Sky describes as his grandfather and five other men had gone camping in the desert, in August of 1947, shortly after the famous Roswell incident, when a flying saucer across the night sky and crashed. From the wreckage, they recovered a silvery alien, unconscious but still alive, called the Elder of the Stars. After it healed, the ET telepathically described to them by means of a crystal that was raging galactic war, that is the cause for which he had been shot down his spacecraft. This material X-Files with the testimony of a Native American remains unconfirmed.
Unexplained sightings continue, however. In the summer of 1970 hundreds of UFOs were seen about 200 km south-west of the Hopi villages near the town of Prescott, Arizona. On the evening of March 13, 1997, in the same vicinity, an aircraft with delta wings, perhaps to share a mile, with illuminated borders, was spotted moving silently above their heads and walk away before accelerating towards the south. Following this event became known as the Phoenix Lights.

Title of USA Today, June 18, 1997.

In 1998, the radio talk-show host Art Bell interviewed two Hopi elders, who declared that their ancestors knew how to travel very far to the other planets. They also said that during the End Times, we received the visit of 'persons outside of the Earth' which possess advanced technology.

Trio of older stars, ceramic bowl, northern Arizona.

Many holders of wisdom Hopi believe that the increased presence of flying shields signals the end of the Fourth World, that of our present age. In conjunction with the biblical prophecies of the Apocalypse, the kachinas, or older stars may groped to warn us about this state of affairs. By listening to these people over the centuries, the Hopi, who lived on their isolated mesas have long known the fate of the global, which now seems imminent. Some of the signs and wonders in the heavens. We need only look at the top.

Hopi Kachina Star.
The three stars on its crest may represent Orion's belt.

Who is the Author
Gary A. David is the author of The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006).
Mr. David's new book, Eye of the Phoenix: Mysterious Visions and Secrets of the American Southwest is also available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Adventures Unlimited Press, and you can get a copy signed by the author. (Www.theorionzone.com)
He has published articles in magazines Fairies, Atlantis Rising, Ancient American, World Explorer.
Gary lives with his wife and daughter in northern Arizona, where the skies are still relatively intact.