"If it comes from the East, the destruction will not be so full, but if it is from the west will have no mercy .."
Hopi Prophecy.
The Alliance of the "Four Corners", formed by top Indian Pueblo, Zuni, Hopi and Jicarilla, takes its name from the "Prophecy of the Four Corners" common to all these tribes belonging to the same ethnic stock.
The Alliance of the "Four Corners" was intended by the Hopi in the days of English rule in Texas, Arizona and surrounding areas.
Around 1885 joined the tribe of Apache and Navaho, the first SOM driven from their land to the southwest the Rio Grande.
These tribes occupy more than 10,000 years the Colorado Plateau of Utah and then expanding in the area between Winslow, Gallup, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and along the vertical of the Rio Grande.
The Alliance takes its name from "The Prophecy of the Four Corners" which means sacred Hopi culture in the area where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet and generates a strong vortex of energy. This area is the representation of a microcosm reflecting the macrocosm of the earth, any violation of nature is reflected in the four corners around the globe.
This ethnic group, known as the Desert Culture, dating back to 9000 BC and the first remains were found in Danger Cave, overlooking the Great Salt Desert in western Utah. The soil of the cave is 34 meters below the present level of Great Salt Lake, at an altitude of about 1325 meters. A larger lake, Glacial Epoch, cut the cave and laid a sandy bottom lake for the first human beings that occupied it. On this basis, in 9000 BC, began to accumulate scraps left by humans.
The main cultures, chronologically, in this area are: 1
The Culture of the Desert - 9000 BC - 1000 BC
2 Mogollon Culture - 200 BC - 1600 AD's historic Zuni
3 Hohokan and Sinagua Culture - 300 BC - 1694 AD
4 Anasazi Culture - 500 BC - 1689 AD
5 Culture Athapaska - 825 AD - 1600 AD Groups historic Apache and Navajo
In this ethnic group, mixed over the centuries, belong:
◆ ◆
Navajo Hopi
◆ ◆ Zuni
Western Apache
◆ Chiricahua
◆ Jicarilla
◆ Mescalero
◆ ◆ Lipan
Kiowa
◆ ◆ Keres
Acona
Warning:
- The generic name "Pueblo Indians" or "Pueblo" is attributed to the Zuni tribe belonging to ethnic groups, Hoipi, Jicarilla, and Lipan
Keres - The names that follow in this document are phonetic transcriptions of the names may vary depending on the dialect and writing system used for some words .
All these ethnic groups and tribes are part of the Alliance of Four Corners.
The religious leadership of the Alliance is led by the Hopi tribe who are both guardians of religion, be guardians of the Holy Tablet, which is jealously guarded by their more than 10,000 years. The Hopi call themselves "Hopitu - the peaceful people," Hopi name is short for "Hopitu sinome", the Hopi people, and is a concept deeply rooted in their religion, spirituality and their vision of morality and ethics.
This concept implies a state of total reverence and respect for all things of this world to live in peace with them and live by the teachings of Masau'u, more protective deities of the Hopi. The Hopi and
Zuni tribes may be considered "Pacific," do not have a military culture, do not believe in violence and adopt the technologies of the whites (do not use the horse and even guns) it is contrary to their beliefs, especially for the "traditional".
The war is entrusted mainly to the Navajo tribe, Apache, Mescalero, Chiricahua and Lipan, tribes are experts in the field of war.
The Hopi are native to the southeastern part of Arizona in the south of Black Mesa, the Mesa name, coined by the English in the late 500, is given to a cluster of small plateaus called the First, Second and Third Mesa. On the tops of these three
Mesa are the Hopi villages, called "Pueblos" always by the Spaniards at that time.
Araibi The Old Pueblo is the oldest, founded in 1050, is the oldest settlement of active across North America.
Their ancestors, the Anasazi, the Aztecs are close relatives to ethnic lines, and arrived in Arizona about 10,000 years ago. Creators of a complex system of ceremonial calendar very similar to the Mayan or Aztec.
All ethnic groups commonly called "Pueblo" (Hopi, Zuni, Jicarilla, etc..) Share the same linguistic family called Uto-Aztec. The Hopi
major centers are: Oraibi, Shongopovi, Miashongnovi, Payupky, Sandia, Sichomovi Hano, and Awatobi Walp. The Hopi live
in "Pueblos (villages) compounds by high mud houses carved into the rock or even several floors. The
"Kivas" are underground chambers of the village where tribes perform social tasks, and especially religious, in the center of Kiva is a fire that serves as the altar.
All the houses, as we said, are composed of several floors, the entrance door is always higher in plans that are accessed by stairs.
The Clan of the Bear Clan is one of the most prominent in all the Hopi Pueblos.
Men and Women different tasks, women own and take care of the house and land, the men sow and harvest crops, weave clothing and officiate the ceremony.
When a child is born male or female, on the twentieth day is taken on the heights of Mesa and showed the rising sun, when the sun hits the baby is only then given the name.
hunting has always been the primary source of livelihood for these people. The first native of the area hunted mammoths until these powerful animals did not die out.
In the course of evolution began the cultivation of maize and wheat, which is now at the center feed Hopi. the Piki is a thin flat bread wheat and ash and is used as a ceremonial food.
They grow 24 different kinds of grain, but the blue and white are the most common, are also cultivated beans, melons, watermelons and fruit in general.
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