-> SNETNEWS Mailing List HYEMEYOHSTS (WOLF) STORM is the legendary author of the exquisitely written and illustrated classic "Seven Arrows" - 47th printing. As an initiate into the ancient teachings of the Zero Chiefs, Storm brings to us the sacred Medicine Wheels and the inherited history reaching back tens of thousands of years to the Mayans and beyond. >From "Lightningbolt" by Hyemeyohsts Storm this is: THE STORY OF TEMPLE DOORS AND THE FOUNDING OF THE EARLY CIVILIZATIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST Some people have said that a Representative government is what we know to be a Democracy. Others say that Freedom is what makes a Democracy. Others will insist that Democracy is a balance between State and Church. There are also those who say that Democracy is a balance between the rich and the poor. And there are those who will claim that Democracy is the balance between the learned and the unschooled. The bold say that Democracy is tolerance and the acceptance of all races and peoples as being equal. The woman known as Temple Doors said all this and more about Democracy many hundreds of years ago. She said that in actuality the founding principle of a true Democracy was a Representative government that was perfectly balanced between female and male, because this Balance is the Source of all that is Living and Natural. She never used the words Democracy or Democratic, but she did use the words Circle of Law. By the time Temple Doors was born the great Circles of Democracy - the Circle of Law - had been outlawed and forbidden by the new feudalistic governing powers. She is the human responsible for the preservation and renewal of the Circle of Law throughout the Americas. It is important to speak of how the Medicine Wheels came to North America from South and Central America, and were kept by the Zero Chiefs. According to the records kept by the Flower Soldiers, the weather patterns of Mother Earth went through incredible changes. Places that were once beautiful plains filled with animals and grass changed over a period of a thousand years to become jungles or deserts. Five great migrations of people left Central America and settled the North; these were called the Great Webs or Spider Roads by the record keepers. These large migrations occurred between one thousand and three thousand years ago. The Spider Woman Keepers are responsible for the information we have of these migrations. For simplicity's sake, the name Spider Woman can be translated as "Guardian Keeper" or "Corn Carrier." The reason for this is because the tradition grew up out of the Gardeners. These women not only kept the Gardens, they also kept the history. Temple Doors was the Priestess-General responsible for one of the largest of the great migrations. She led her people north, out of Central America, into what we presently know as our Southwest. This great migration took place between two thousand and twenty-five hundred years ago. During this journey, half of her people perished from war, disease, and hunger. It was this woman General who brought the Great Circle of Law and all the Medicine Wheels to the North. She also brought corn, squash, beans, and turkeys. Temple Doors was born to the Butterfly People. At this time these people controlled the tribal city-states south of Mexico City. The hundreds of city-states of the Yucatán had been founded by Tribes of many diverse groups and languages. Each city-state had its Great Temple. The Center Temple, or Great Temple, was everything to its people because it held the distinction of "possessing the Name of the Divine." This meant that the Temple was known by the name of the Goddess and God of the city-state. Each Temple was the seat of the law, the university, the place of records, the treasury, the place of information, the hospital, the war academy, and the place of prayer. At the time of the birth of Temple Doors, the Mayan city-states had been in constant war with each other for nearly three hundred years. The wars had started in the aftermath of horrible earthquakes and exploding volcanoes that had leveled hundreds of cities and Temples. The Lords of the land were brutal men who would stop at nothing to get their way. The sacrifice priests taught these Feudal Lords that people could be ruled only by fear. The Lords, in their turn, taught that only the fang and the tooth of experience were understood by "the common people," who were "incapable of learning." However, the Flower Soldiers taught that human sacrifice and slavery were forbidden, and that every human possessed the natural right to have a Voice in government. Democracy-the Circle of Law-had been discovered by the Zero Chiefs thousands of years before this time and was held to be Sacred by every Flower Soldier. By the time Temple Doors became the commander of the Flower Soldiers, she violently opposed the sacrifice priests of the Temples and Lords who held their people in perpetual slavery. A bloody war ensued that lasted five years. After yet another bitter struggle and more useless bloodshed, the courageous Temple Doors decided to lead the Flower Soldiers and any of her people who wanted to go with them, north into the "Land of the Wild People." In the new land, they could find Freedom and rebuild their civilization based on the balance and teachings of the Medicine Wheels. Temple Doors led twenty-four thousand people or more, overland, north out from the Mayan peninsula, through the length of Mexico and into the Southwest of the present-day United States. On this great migration, she fought and won many battles and helped her people survive every kind of privation and disease. Temple Doors was a Priestess and a General. However, her most important contribution to the world was the reordering and rebuilding of the Discipline of the Flower Soldiers. Temple Doors was a very important person in human history. Volumes could be written about her by the people of Mexico and we Northerners, and still there would be more to say. But time is needed before this will be done. The Temple known as Desert Flower is the source of our information concerning the early migrations to the North from the Yucatán. This Temple is now known as the ruins of Chaco Canyon. The woman who began the building of the Desert Flower was the Zero Chief Temple Doors. The cities of Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly were built by the people who took on the name of their Chief, calling themselves the Temple Doors. The sophisticated network of roads, cisterns, forts, Kivas, buildings, farms, and pueblos were all built by the people of Temple Doors. Temple Doors originally settled many of her armies and peoples at Canyon de Chelly. They began building immediately. However, at this same time, a dedicated group of highly disciplined and skilled Medicine Soldiers, with their General, Temple Doors, began the construction of their Schools and Temples at the Desert Flower in Chaco Canyon. Her dream and the dream of her apprentices was to build a new civilization based on the teaching of the Medicine Wheels and the Circle of Law. The Desert Flower was designed to be their first main Center of Teaching and Healing. The General lived for many years. It is thought that she was over eighty-three at the time of her death. HYEMEYOHSTS (WOLF) STORM will be returning to the Mayan land the ancient Teachings of the Medicine Wheels. At the Mayan sacred site of Coba near the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan, at mid-day on the spring equinox, March 21, Storm, Mayan Master Miguel Angel, Hawaiian Shaman Serge Kahili King, and all those present will hold ceremony - building and returning the Medicine Wheel to the Maya. An ancient prophecy may be fulfilled during this powerful ceremony, as the Eagle of the North comes to join the Condor of the South - a significant returning called for, by the Inka and others, as a precursor for the Change of Ages. Hyemeyohsts Storm Who is he? <http://www.greatmystery.org/wolf.html> ________________________________________________________________________ To Prophets Conference ~ Caribbean, March 15-22, 1999, Chichen Itza, Tulum, Coba, and Playa del Carmen. For Brochure, email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, or call toll-free: 1-888-777-5981. 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