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The 5th Sun
Two Prophecies for the 5th Sun
A Golden Epoch of Human History
In the mid 20th century the elders of the Q’ero Nation descended from their 17,000 foot Andean villages for the first time since the fall of the Inka Empire. Signs of “The Time to Come," the beginning of a new era foretold by their oral teachings, were coming to pass. High mountain lagoons were drying, the great condor was near extinction, and the raw power of the sun seeped through a tear in the ozone layer above their three mile high villages. The elders knew it was their destiny to tell “white people from the North” and modern people the world over about the ending of the 4th Sun and the coming of the 5th. Analogous to the 4th and 5th Worlds of the Hopi and prophecies of many indigenous people, “Suns” designate grand planetary epochs in which humanity and its institutions have certain characteristics, values, challenges, and opportunities. These ages build one on the other over thousands of years and are both the impetus for and the result of the evolution of consciousness and the unfolding of the Plan of the Great Spirit here on our home planet.
The transitions between these periods can be challenging, especially for individuals and groups having difficulty assimilating the incoming energetic information and growing in ways that mirror and express the new possibilities. Don Umberto, a Q’ero Nation elder, told Dr. Alberto Villoldo in 1995 that “the upheaval and chaos characteristic of this period will last until the year 2012. At that time the world will be turned right side up again. The pillars of European civilization will collapse, and the ways of the Earth Peoples will return. The Conquistador will perish by his own hand and his own blade." For modern Westerners this next Pachakuti (the transition to the 5th Sun) holds the possibility of chaos and the end of the world as we know it. But it also promises the emergence of a new kind of human at the end of this period of turmoil.
“The end of the world as we know it” is an ominous prediction. What could it mean for our modern culture? Could the Inka past be an indication of our near future? Don Umberto described the transition from the 3rd to the 4th Sun for the Inka Nation 500 years ago. The last Pachakuti was triggered by “the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors. Throughout the Americas, the world of the Indian was turned upside down. Kings and chiefs were subjugated and turned into slaves, and barbarians became rulers. Medicine people were tortured in the mines and fields. Order in the Americas was replaced with chaos.” This is the world the indigenous peoples are looking to be “turned right side up again” soon.
Many modern interpreters of these ancient prophesies, including the caretakers of Inka Sun Staffs (ISS), acknowledge the fear and alienation of these trying times. We quickly add, however, that expanded consciousness and healthy, positive changes for individuals and modern Western society can win the day if the opportunity is taken. The Inka Prophecies tell us that reintegrating the “Ways of the Earth Peoples” and embracing the Medicine Teachings are keys to a constructive conclusion to the challenging in-between time.
The ISS Community believes that attracting, harmonizing, and radiating the energy of the 5th Sun is important energetic work that can potentiate an effective and harmonious transition period. We feel that working with 5th Sun energy is an important ingredient in creating a solid foundation for a potential new golden era populated by the “new kind of human” that Don Umberto foresees. A Golden Human Age that synthesizes the best of modern civilization with the best “Ways of the Earth Peoples” is our vision and our goal.
The aging Q’ero Medicine Teachers abandoned their beloved traditional way of life high in the Andes to travel the world spreading the news of the 5th Sun. In response to their call, a four foot solid brass descendent of the original golden Inka Staff was cast in 1995. The caretakers of the Staff and the Inka Sun Staff Community lend their steadily expanding voice to the Elders' gentle words of warning, encouragement and direction. The result is a chorus of beauty and hope for humanity and all our relations. A Golden Epoch of Human History and a “new kind of human” are the potential and the promise.
Two Prophecies for the 5th Sun
Photo copyright © 2003 by Allen Holmquist
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