GLOBAL KARMA - GAIAS REVENGE #2

How can we get back to where we were when indigenous wisdom is sadly disappearing and has never been appreciated - even ridiculed - by the West. We need to try and restore the Indigenous Nature-bound mind-set we all once had when we were Hunter-Gatherers and lived entirely off the Earth Mother. Now, more than ever, before their wisdom disappears, we need to pay attention to what they are saying or have said.

Some intriguing stories and maybe facts that endorse Gaia's wisdom and power.

The Kogi

The Kogi, a tribe in Colombia, claim they are here to guard the planet. They talk about 'Dark Unknowable' matter that physicists also describe but cannot explain. This matter is just one aspect of the Creator whose many manifestations are beyond our understanding. They say this power holds the universe together - the planet as well - but only if we behave. We still have time, the Kogi say, to reverse the changes but we must act quickly. Lovelock adds that the right technology can save us. 

The Kogi have theories that they regard as truths as to how we have allowed the earth's sickness to happen and what must be done to begin the process of restitution and rehabilitation. Some of what they are saying may be lost in translation. 

Aluna means 'Conscience' (or also maybe, the right consciousness.) The 'Mother' linked the sacred sites with a black thread of invisible thought. The 'Se, the Darkness in the heavens is the mother of all things and it accelerates the universe and fills all space. The Kogi were left objects like maps to connect with this Darkness. Scientists also believe that 'dark matter' is holding the galaxies from spinning out of control. 

They believe that the Darkness is linked to the material world in critical places that must not be damaged. 

They can connect to It with thought The ocean sites that are 'threaded' together have connections with the mountains above and these connections and their rivers are being changed or destroyed. The rivers born in the mountains must go home to the Mother ocean below. The water speaks to them about the planet in various mystical ways. Sacred mountains destroyed by developers have broken the sacred threads. Dams have been built and mangroves drained which  have polluted the lagoons. Ports have disturbed the land and this will bring floods and mudslides. The rivers are drying up and the snow and glaciers are disappearing because these 'threads' have been interrupted. There are special areas, special sites which must be preserved for the species that live there to survive. Alien plants are destroying the eco-system, taking over from native plants and sucking up the ground water. The Kogi are describing a microcosmic dynamic which is destroying not only their habitat but also ours.

We have made a mess of God's sacred planet, of Gaia.

"A river arose out of Eden forming four rivers and four winds which animate all of creation (the Still Beings, the Growing Beings, the Wild Beings and the Talking Beings.)" The Zohar

Many indigenous peoples believe that the planet is a living Being. The book of the Zohar would agree and that She is animated by the Breath/Wind/Spirit of the Creator. 

"All things share the same breath, the beasts, the tree, the man ... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports." Chief Seattle

Water, Wind, and the Spirit that moves through all things.

PO WA HA  Water, Wind and Spirit.  Pueblo Indians

"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves." Chief Seattle

"Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seattle

The Earth is feminine but we have an overload of masculine power in charge. Maybe its time for the more 'mothers' to be in control.

"When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money." Cree wisdom

Kariba

The Batonga people lived peacefully in the Zambezi valley and built their kraals (homesteads) along the banks of the great river for centuries until the Rhodesian government decided to build Kariba dam. Reluctantly the Tonga allowed themselves to be resettled higher up the bank, but they believed Nyami Nyami, the river god, would never allow the dam to be built. Eventually then when the project failed they would move back to their homes. 

In 1957, when the dam was well on its way to completion, Nyami Nyami struck. The worst floods ever known on the Zambezi washed away much of the partly built dam and the heavy equipment, killing many of the workers. Some of those killed were white men whose bodies disappeared. After an extensive search failed to find them, Tonga elders were asked to assist as their tribesmen knew the river better than anyone. 

The elders explained that Nyami Nyami had caused the disaster and in order to appease his wrath a sacrifice should be made.They weren't taken seriously, but in desperation, when relatives of the missing workers were due to arrive to claim the bodies of their loved ones, the search party agreed to do the ritual. This was done in the hope that the tribesmen would know where the bodies were likely to have been washed up. A black calf was slaughtered and floated on the river. The next morning the calf was gone and many of the workers’ bodies mysteriously appeared. The disappearance of the calf holds no mystery in the crocodile infested river, but the reappearance of the workers’ bodies three days after they had disappeared has never been satisfactorily explained.

After the disaster, flow patterns of the river were studied to ascertain whether there was a likelihood of another flood and it was agreed a flood of comparable intensity would only occur once every thousand years. The very next rainy season, however, brought further floods even worse than the previous year. Nyami Nyami had struck again, destroying the coffer dam, the access bridge and parts of the main wall.

The project survived and the great river was eventually controlled. In 1960 the generators were switched on and have been supplying electricity to Zimbabwe and Zambia ever since. (taken from Wikipedia.)

Statue of Nyami Nyami overlooking the dam.

We are all in an existential crisis and no matter our views or belief systems we need to try and restore our Mother, as much as possible, back to Her original Nature before its too late. We need to find and support those in power who have similar beliefs.