ENTERING THE HOPI'S FIFTH WORLD

Hopi, a word that seems to have kept all of its wisdom, on a planet literally devoured by
a civilization, ours, completely out of touch with its roots and its land. The Hopi are a
people of a less than10 000 souls, living in pueblos perched on three mesas in the north
of Arizona, near the place called the Four Corners, where the borders of four states,
Arizona, New-Mexico, Utah and Colorado, meet. The vast territory of the Hopi, which
once spread from the Colorado River to the Rio Grande is today reduced to a reservation
of a little less than 7 000 square km, enclosed inside the Navajo lands.

Where does that nation come from? A race who, over two thousands years ago, (and
much more, if we refer to their own tradition), developed a metaphysical system, an
explanation of the world and religious ceremonies of a complexity unparalleled upon
those lands where only nomad hordes roamed. Hopi, like the other Native American,
would be the descendants of Asian tribes who have crossed the Bering Strait, ten
thousand years before our era. A theory the Hopi beliefs contradict. They talk of a far
older emergence, somewhere on the coasts of Central America and even further down
south.

According to their legends, passed on from mouth to ear during initiation rites, Hopi clans
have crossed the ocean when their world was engulfed by a flood. Their world was the
Third World. Their tradition holds that they were the first men to set foot on the
American continent, the Fourth World. On the Third World, men had developed giant
cities, a great civilization, where men made war to one another using incredible
machines, flying shields, patuwvotas. These legends bring to mind the myth of the lost
continents of Mu and Atlantis, as well as the theory of an earth that had seen
civilizations with advanced technology long before ours.

Joseph F. Blumrich is the author of a book in German first published in 1979, and titled
"Kásskara und die Sieben Welten" (Kásskara and the Seven Worlds). He has worked for
NASA from 1959 to 1974. He notably participated in the conception of the structure for
the booster on the Saturn V space rocket that allowed the American astronauts to go
walking on the moon. He also took part in the conception of Skylab. In this book, "White
Bear" a Hopi, tells the story of his people, the Hopi, and the relations they have kept with
their creator and also with his auxiliaries, the various Kachinas. He exposes the stupid
war opposing his ancestors living on Mu (Kásskara) to the people of Atlantis
(Talawaitichqua), and the destruction of the two worlds. "In the Third World, he says,
and since the First World, we were in relation with the Kachinas. The Kachinas may be
visible, but sometime they may also be invisible. The Kachinas are able to move around
very quickly. They need only a few seconds; their ships fly using some kind of magnetic
force, even when they circle around the earth…" Concerning the people from Atlantis,
"they could only migrate towards the East, towards the regions nowadays called Europe
and Africa. But their powers had been taken away from them. They were grounded. They
could no longer fly. They could only survive if they migrated in small groups. And
therefore, every group could only bring a small portion of the knowledge they had
before."

In 1945, on July 6 and 9, 220 000 Japanese were killed by American atomic bombs.
Alarmed by this tragedy which they interpreted as a portent sign of the end of the Fourth
World, the Ancients, Thomas Banyacya and three other traditional chiefs devolved to the
Hopi cause, in 1948, went to speak before the members of UNO to reveal the Hopi
prophecy to the modern world. "One day the stars will come together into one row, as it
happened thousands of years ago. It is the time of cleansing for the Earth. Climate
changes and numerous catastrophes may happen when we reach this point. What will
happen next, nobody can know for sure." According to this prophecy, vast damages and
huge number of deaths are to be expected. It will also be the beginning of an ice age or
a tremendous transformation: the coming into the Fifth World. Could the Hopi myths be
true stories recounting historical facts? Why not? The hypothesis is less subjective than
the attitude of relegate them to the status of folklore for the sole reason that they
contravene the canons of the occidental mind.