The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 - Dr. Synthia Andrews Nd [91]
In relation to 2012 he has told us, “The world will not end in 2012. The world will end when the sun goes out.”
Tlakaelel visited England in 1994 to find “the place of the last ceremonial dance.” Here are Colin (left) and Tlakaelel (right).
The Kogi: Heart of the World
The Kogi people are the last continuously surviving high civilization of preconquest America. They live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern Colombia, South America. Like so many tribes, they were nearly annihilated by the Spanish conquistadores. After the Spanish invasion, the Kogi and other tribes of the Sierra Nevada retreated. High in the mountains, they have created a community with intricate networks of cities interwoven in the heart of the forest. They farm, live in harmony with the land, and maintain continual prayer for the well-being of the planet.
Sending a Message to the “Younger Brother”
So completely have the Kogi cut themselves off from society that for centuries it was thought that they had not survived the Spanish invasion. Then in 1991 they sent a message down the mountain to the “younger brother.” The Kogi people consider themselves the “Elder Brothers” of humanity. We are the “younger brothers,” or the newcomers to the planet. They believe it’s their job to maintain the Sierra Nevada Mountains where they live, which is the “Heart of the World.” If the mountains die, so does the planet. This message rings prophetic in today’s world. Wise Elders of the community, known as the Mamas, hold the responsibility of maintaining continual spiritual efforts to this end.
Alan Ereira, a BBC TV journalist, met with a delegation of Kogi who came down from the mountain with a message for the “younger brother.” The message was internationally televised in a 1991 BBC documentary called From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning. The Kogi broke their retreat from the world because the mountain was sick, which meant the world was sick and they needed to intervene.
The program is riveting and heartfelt, with much significance for this time. Colin watched the message in 1991. It impacted his research into the crop circles, which you’ll read about in Chapter 18. It moved him into opening dialogue with indigenous people to understand the symbols in the fields that he was researching.
According to the Kogi, “The snow has stopped falling on the mountain top, it’s not there to melt and fill the rivers below. The (Earth) Mother’s waters are disappearing. Younger brother is destroying her. Look at the leaves on the trees, they are withering and falling, her lungs are dying.” The Kogi talk of “younger brother” as children, “looting the planet, tearing at its flesh without respect.” The Elder Brothers say, “If we fail to respond, all life will be destroyed.”
The chilling message from Colombia’s isolated Kogi tribe led Alan Ereira to travel to the top of the mountain with the Kogi. He documented the melted glaciers and stark, snowless peaks. This was the first empirical evidence of global warming. The Kogi warned there was a brief window to act. In light of the signs of change you will read about in Part 4 of this book, we might have been well advised to have acted on that warning.
Codex Cues
The Kogi story can be read in the book The Elder Brothers by Alan Ereira (Knopf, 1992) or can be seen in the 1991 documentary From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning (BBC, 1991). Both are available at www.amazon.com.
Washington Meeting
In September 2006, we were invited to a symposium in Washington, D.C., with leaders of the Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuaco, and Kankuamo indigenous communities from the Sierra Nevada. For the first time in history, the Kogi Mamas had come down from their mountain and entered a modern U.S. city. They repeated the same message, this time with much greater urgency. Things are much worse and the future of the planet is at stake.
Thomas Banyacya and the Hopi Prophecy
You’ve already read about the Hopi prophecy in Chapter 11. The prophecy was held by the Parrot clan