Deganawidah: The Two Serpents Prophecies

Deganawidah: The Two SerpentsAmerican Prophecies by Scott PetersonWhen Deganawidah was leaving the Indians in the Bay of Quinte inOntario, he told the Indian people that they would face a time ofgreat suffering. They would distrust their leaders and the principlesof peace of the League, and a great white serpent was to come uponthe Iroquois, and that for a time it would intermingle with theIndian serpent as a friend.This serpent would in time become so powerful that it would attemptto destroy the Indian, and the serpent is described as choking thelife's blood out of the Indian people. Deganawidah told the Indiansthat they would be in such a terrible state at this point that allhope would seem to be lost, and he told them that when things lookedtheir darkest a red serpent would come from the north and approachthe white serpent, which would be terrified, and upon seeing the redserpent he would release the Indian, who would fall to the groundalmost like a helpless child, and the white serpent would turn allits attention to the red serpent. The bewilderment would cause thewhite serpent to accept the red one momentarily.The white serpent would be stunned and take part of the red serpentand accept him. Then there is a heated argument and a fight. And thenthe Indian revives and crawls toward the land of the hilly country,and then he would assemble his people together, and they would renewtheir faith and the principles of peace that Deganawidah hadestablished.There would at the same time exist among the Indians a great love andforgiveness for his brother, and in this gathering would come streamsfrom all over -- not only the Iroquois but from all over -- and theywould gather in this hilly country, and they would renew theirfriendship. And Deganawidah said they would remain neutral in thisfight between the white and red serpents.At the time they were watching the two serpents licked in thisbattle, a great message would come to them, which would make themever so humble, and when they become that humble, they will bewaiting for a young leader, an Indian boy, possibly in his teens, whowould be a choice seer. Nobody knows who he is or where he comesfrom, but he will be given great power, and would be heard bythousands, and he would give them the guidance and the hope torefrain from going back to their land and he would be the acceptedleader.And Deganawidah said that they will gather in the land of the hillycountry, beneath the branches of an elm tree, and they should burntobacco and call upon Deganawidah by name when facing the darkesthours, and he will return. Deganawidah said that as the choice seerspeaks to the Indians that number as the blades of grass, and hewould be heard by all at the same time, and as the Indians aregathered watching the fight, they notice from the south a blackserpent coming from the sea, and he is described as dripping withsalt water, and as he stands there, he rests for a spell to get hisbreath, all the time watching to the north to the land where thewhite and red serpents are fighting.Deganawidah said that the battle between the white and the redserpents opened very slowly but would then become so violent that themountains would crack and the rivers would boil and the fish wouldturn up on their bellies. He said that there would be no leaves onthe trees in that area.There would be no grass, and that strange bugs and beetles wouldcrawl from the ground and attack both serpents, and he said that agreat heat would cause the stench of death to sicken both serpents.And then, as the boy seer is watching this fight, the red serpentreaches around the back of the white serpent and pulls from him ahair which is carried toward the south by a great wind into thewaiting hands of the black serpent, and as the black serpent studiesthis hair, it suddenly turns into a woman, a white woman who tellshim things that he knows to be true but he wants to hear them again.When this white woman finishes telling these things, he takes her andgently places her on a rock with great love and respect, and then hebecomes infuriated at what he has heard, so he makes a beeline forthe north, and he enters the battle between the red and whiteserpents with such speed and anger that he defeats the two serpents,who have already been battle weary.When he finishes, he stand on the chest of the white serpent, and heboasts and puts his chest out like he¹s the conqueror, and he looksfor another serpent to conquer.He looks to the land of the hilly country and then sees the Indianstanding with his arms folded and looking ever so noble that he knowsthat this Indian is not the one to fight.The next direction that he will face will be eastward and at thattime he will be momentarily blinded by a light that is many timesbrighter than the sun.The light will be coming from the east to the west over the water,and when the black serpent regains his sight, he becomes terrifiedand makes a beeline for the sea.He dips into the sea and swims away in a southerly direction, andshall never again be seen by the Indians.The white serpent revives, and he too sees the light, and he makes afeeble attempt to gather himself and go toward that light.A portion of the white serpent refuses to remain but instead makesits way toward the land of the hilly country, and there he will jointhe Indian People with a great love like that of a lost brother.The rest of the white serpent would go to the sea and dip into thesea and would be lost out of sight for a spell. Then suddenly thewhite serpent would appear again on the top of the water and he wouldbe slowly swimming toward the light. Deganawidah said that the whiteserpent would never again be troublesome to the Indian People.The red serpent would revive and he would shiver with great fear whenhe sees that light. He would crawl to the north and leave a bloody,shaky trail northward, and he would never be seen again by theIndians. Deganawidah said as this light approaches that he would bethat light, and he would return to his Indian People, and when hereturns, the Indian People would be a greater nation than they hadever been before.