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Legends

The Seer Who Would Not See

Earth Maker took some clay in his hands, mixed it with his own sweat, and formed it into two figures -- a man and a woman. He breathed life into them and they began to walk around. They lived. They had children. They peopled the land. They built villages.

At a time when there were already numbers of people living, Szeukha, Earth Maker's son, dwelled in the valley of the Gila River. Near him lived a famous seer who could foretell the future.

One night while this seer slept, someone came to speak to him, making a great noise at his door. The seer woke up and looked out. Silhouetted against the light of the moon was a big bird standing in the doorway. It was the great eagle, who said, "Wake up! Stir yourself! You're a seer; you're a healer. Don't you know that a great flood is coming?"

"I know nothing about a flood," said the seer, laughing at the eagle. "Go away and let me sleep."

The great eagle came three times more to warn the seer, who ridiculed and scolded him. "Don't bother me, bird of misfortune. We all know what kind of person you are. You roam the villages in the shape of an old woman, and afterwards some girls and children have disappeared and are never seen again. We don't want you around here."

"You'd better believe what I'm telling you," said the great eagle. "This whole valley will be flooded. Everything will be destroyed."

"You're a liar," said the seer.

"And you're a seer who sees nothing," said the great eagle.

The bird flew away, and hardly had he gone when tremendous thunderclap was heard, the loudest there has ever been. Even children in the womb heard it. It began thundering continuously as great flashes of lightning lit up the sky. When morning came, the sun remained hidden behind dark clouds, and there was only twilight, gray and misty. Then the earth trembled, and there was a great roar of something immense moving. The people saw a sheer green wall advancing toward them, filling the valley from one side to the other. At first they did not know what it was, and then they realized that it was a wall of green water. Destroying everything in its path, it came like a huge beast, a green monster, rushing upon them foaming, hissing, in a cloud of spray. It engulfed the seer's house and carried it way with the seer, who was never seen again. Then the water fell upon the villages, sweeping away homes, people, fields, and trees. The flood swept the valley clean as with a broom. Then it rushed on beyond the valley to wreak havoc elsewhere.

When the next day dawned, there was nothing alive except Szeukha, Earth Maker's son, floating on a lump of pine resin. The waters abated a little, and his strange craft bumped into a mountain above the Salt River. He stepped ashore and lived for a while in a cave on that mountain. The cave is still there, and so are some of the tools and weapons that Earth Maker's son used.

Now, Szeukha was going up to fight the great eagle. He was furious at this bird, who, he thought, had caused the great flood. Szeukha took wood from different kinds of trees and made a ladder. He leaned it against the cliff atop which the great eagle had his home, and the ladder reached into the clouds. Szeukha climbed it, found the great eagle, and fought him. It was a big fight and lasted a long time, for both Szeukha and the great eagle were powerful and had strong magic. But Szeukha was more powerful, his magic more potent, and at last he killed the great eagle.

Looking around, Szeukha saw the corpses and bones of all the people the great eagle had abducted and killed. He brought them all back to life, fed and clothed them, and told them to spread out and repeople the land. Inside great eagle's house he found a woman and her child alive. The eagle had stolen her from a village and taken her for his wife. Szeukha fed and clothed her and the child also, and sent them on their way. The woman was pregnant at the time, and she became the mother and begetter of the Hohokam people, from whom the Pimas are descended.
 
 

* Retold from various nineteenth-century sources.
 
 
 
 
 

The tradition among the native peoples of the Americas of recording historic events, traditions, and many other things in the form of legends and stories -- is well-founded and, many times, has proven to be far more accurate and unbiased, than the so-called "history books" of the modern-day western world.  The following story records the very significant event of a tidal wave, the proportions of which left almost no survivors after it had passed. Yet somebody must have been alive in order to record the event, and there are certainly not very many stories from the Pima dealing with tidal waves. There may be expressed anger/indignance here too, against the tribes' seer, for not having given any warning of the catastrophe.

Although no precise time period for this recorded event is given, the descriptions within bear similarities with those of other, “recorded” events, such as the volcanic explosion of "Krakatoa" -- in which literally the whole island was blown up, sending sonic reverberation around the world time and time again, being heard and recorded in every nation of the world, both "civilized" and otherwise. This is recorded as the loudest sound that ever occurred on earth, and most certainly -- tidal waves of immense size were caused by this event.

The event of the global flood that took place at some point in earth's history, modern science still refuses to recognize actually happened -- despite stories and legends recording it from absolutely every tribe, culture, and religion in the world, and despite the fossils still being found on mountain-tops, and high plateaus. Maybe we will never know exactly what happened to cause that event, but we are given clues -- when we study these legends and tales from Mother Earth's earliest cultures.

The Russians are still continuing to find and dig up "woolly mammoths" -- all over their continent, and through what we have learned about our earth's past, we have been able to build up a pretty composite picture of what earth was like then, and where the earth's creatures were situated.

Yet bones of woolly mammoths, for just one example, continue to turn up in places where no woolly mammoth's bones should be, and apparently during time periods when they especially shouldn't have been living in those places, due to the climate of the time. Evidence for the "flood" theory shows a catastrophe that happened, that was so great -- that modern scientific theory rules it out altogether.

Ancient cultures speak of an "explosion" that took place in the North, we know the polar ice cap was not always in its present form and yet, if melted, or "destroyed", the cataclysmic events that would have taken place, are very similar to those we find in ancient cultural and tribal stories. An "explosion" so huge that it melted the ice cap -- sending tidal waves of unimaginable size racing across the earth in all directions, crashing across whole continents. Familial species of many animals have been found at opposite ends of the earth. Mammoths in the Siberian regions -- were literally swept up by the walls of water, and their bones found in the southernmost points of  South Africa, as they were blasted clear across the face of the earth. Again, legend records these events, modern-day sciences do not.

Despite the ancient stones found in the river beds of Iran, with world maps etched on them, thousands of years old, detailed -- showing the continents much closer together than they are now, despite the warnings from these ancient voices that the earth undergoes "cyclical" changes, as regular as clockwork, and that mankind should wake up and take notice -- the modern-day encroachment upon these ancient cultures, thus stifling the warnings they have that could help us so much, continues on. These stones are only one evidence, and yet there are so many -- that mankind was in an advanced stage of his evolution back then as he is now, for they show such things as open-heart surgery -- with the heart and all its four valves in clear detail, the use of telescopes, magnifying glasses, the world maps, and other things.

The warnings from many of the surviving modern-day ancient cultures --  is that the time of the next cyclical change for the earth is not only upon us but is, in fact, overdue, and in view of the current abuse of this planet now taking place, the forecast is not only not good, but is fulfilling ancient prophecy -- to the letter.

* Ray Stark.