Legend of the White Buffalo (Pahana)
Below is the legend of the White Buffalo. After initially encountering the students of Dr. Jensen (Yah’shua Ha-Kohen Ha-Gadol, Yesu Kohen al-Akbar) at The Wyoming Rainbow Gathering in 2008. I journeyed with one of Doc's students, "Eagle of the East" (EE). He relayed to me that in regards to the Hopi prophecies that a Hopi woman named Oh Shinnah had journeyed north in accord with where the expected appearance of the Pahana or Bahana (white brother) would take place. Oh Shinnah was the adopted grand-daughter of Hopi Grandfather David Monongye (McFadden, 2005, pg. 66), who was one of four Hopi to be deputized to interpret the Hopi Prophecies from the Traditionist perspective and according to BUPC students recognized the Rainbow Family as an Indigenous Nation (Wind Field Notes, July 3, 2011). Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf went to Missoula and met with Dr. Leland Jensen. Then Dr. Jensen visited the Hopi homeland. According to another myth told by EE Dr. Jensen's mother was given a package by `Abdu'l-Baha and contained the missing piece of the fire tablet (Field Notes, EE, 2008).
Additionally, there is a Rainbow Oracle, dreams and visions of prophecy related to the Rainbow Family by Rainbows, that the Bahana would appear at the 17th Rainbow Gathering, which was held in 1989 and at which Dr. Jensen appeared (Wind Field Notes, 2011)
Citations:
Field Notes, Eagle of the East, July 5, 2008
Field Notes, Wind, July 3, 2011
McFadden, Steven"Legend of the Rainbow Warriors" iUniverse 2005, http://books.google.com/books?id=jGqmyBnzphYC&lpg=PA73&dq=Martin%20Gashweseoma&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q=Martin%20Gashweseoma&f=false
The following is BUPC interpretation of the White Buffalo Prophecy:
source: http://www.alaska.net/~peace/oracle.htm (accessed 7/12/2011)
The Rainbow Family prophecy for appearance of the Hopi Bahana
While at the original Rainbow Gathering, the founding family members were privileged to witness an amazing sight. One beautiful morning as brothers and sisters awoke, it was observed that in the partially snow covered mountain ridges, in the wonderful Colorado Rockies, was a perfect outline of a white buffalo. At first it was noticed by a few but as the day progressed it had become obvious that the white buffalo on the mountain had stolen the show and was the topic of the day.
The next day, at the main circle, a Rainbow sister shared a vision that she had that night. In the vision she saw the white buffalo and she saw that the white buffalo was a man. More importantly she described how in the vision the white buffalo was actually the long awaited Bahana whose arrival all the Native Americans were eagerly awaiting. Later, as the Rainbow family evolved so also did the vision as other pieces of authentic Rainbow prophecy were incorporated into the original vision. Finally the most important part of the White Buffalo vision was divulged, that the White Buffalo/Bahana would make an appearance at the 17th National Rainbow Gathering. Thus began the Rainbow Oracle.
Some of the years leading up to the the fulfillment of the oracle were marked with tragedy. In 1980, in West Viginia, two sisters were brutally murdered by shotgun after being picked up hitchhiking on their way to the National Gathering. It was also reported to me by an elder, who was at the 1987 National, that a brother had been abducted from the Gathering and lynched.
Then in 1988, at the Texas National, a beloved sister was nearly murdered when she was run down in main meadow by a local lunatic in his four-wheel drive. But Texas was the 17th National Rainbow Gathering where death was to be cheated as the Rainbow Oracle was being fulfilled!
Rejoice brothers and sisters of the Rainbow! The fulfillment of the oracle proved that the visions and prophesies of the Rainbow Tribe concerning the White Buffalo were genuine and veritable. So you're probably asking, "How was the oracle fulfilled?" That is a great question and the answer is forthcoming, but first let me explain the role of the Bahana.
The Bahana, also known as the Pahana, is prophetically known as the return of Quetzacoatl, the feathered serpent. Quetzacoatl was Enoch who oversaw the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search of black granite which he found in Wisconsin and shipped back to Egypt for the pyramid. While Enoch was in the Americas he traveled on foot southward teaching the Native Americans the religion of Adam: the religion of the One True Invisible God, called "Wakan-Tanca." Enoch was known as Quetzacoatl, Kulkulcan, and Itzamna.
Quetzacoatl promised he would return in the later times as the White Buffalo/Bahana to deliver the faithful from the hand of their oppressors and to safely lead the believers through the "fire of purification."
In the Book of the Hopi, Frank Waters tells the legend of the lost white brother. He explains,
After the Fire Clan had migrated to their permanent home, the time would come when they would be overcome by a strange people [the white people]. They would be forced to develop their land and lives according the the dictates of a new ruler, or else they would be treated as criminals and punished. But they were not to resist. They were to wait for the person who would deliver them. This person was their lost white brother, Pahana, [or Bahana] who would return to them the missing corner piece of the tablet, deliver them from their persecutors, and work out with them a new and universal brotherhood of man,...
(Book of the Hopi, page 31)
Let us continue examining the oracle's fulfillment. The sister who was run over by the jeep on that fateful day in Texas was "No Guns." She suffered a punctured lung and nearly died as hundreds of family members encircled her and tried to resuscitate her with drugs and a group "om". Fortunately there was a renowned naturopathic physician in camp. He got in his car and drove around the lake and down to the incident site and arduously made his way through the crowd and administered pure oxygen from an oxygen tank to her and saved her life (I met No Guns on the Navajo Reservation in 1991 and she expressed deep gratitude for this)! That physician was Dr. Leland Jensen, the Bahana, the White Buffalo, the lost white brother.
Beloved family! The Rainbow Oracle was fulfilled because the long awaited Bahana was there at the 17th National Gathering in Texas! Dr. Jensen and a group of Baha'is were there teaching "Fireside" classes, promulgating the new and universal brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind.
Dr. Leland Jensen is the establisher of Baha'u'llah's Revelation. Baha'u'llah was the Second Coming of Christ seated on the throne of King David, and for the Native Americans he is the "Father Sun." Baha'u'llah's message to the world is Justice. It was at the 17th National Gathering that the Rainbow Family finally received justice. 1988 was the year that a District Court Judge finally set a precedent in favor of the Rainbow Family by officially upholding our First Amendment right to peaceable assemblage. Since then no party, neither private nor public, not even the United States Forest Service, has been able to block family members from gathering in droves in the public lands. This, my friends, is a testament to Dr. Jensens mission. For the Rainbow family and the Native American Indians he is the Hopi Bahana, the elder white brother, Quetzacoatl, the white buffalo and the true Baha'i. The Texas National was the only Rainbow gathering that Dr. Leland Jensen ever went to and his appearance there was in fulfillment of the Rainbow Oracle.
Dr. Jensen did not appear, fulfilling prophecy just for the Rainbows, the Native American Indians and the Christians; he has come with teachings for the oneness of humanity, with teachings, explanations and commentaries concerning the Divine Plan. Furthermore, his arrival is prophesied in all of the world religions. For instance, just as the Natives are waiting for the Bahana so to are the Jews waiting for Ha Eretz; the Hindus - 10th "Kalki" Avatar; the Zoroastrians - Saoshyant; the Buddhists - Maitreya; the Christians and the Muslims - Jesus; and the Baha'is are awaiting the arrival of the Seventh Angel. All of these roles and more are fulfilled in Dr. Leland Jensen who now resides in Montana (the "Big Sky") and has educated a core of angelic Baha'is (people of light) who are actively teaching and gathering the 144,000 who are to safely traverse the oncoming cataclysms also called the "fire of purification."
Thousands of people, from all walks of life, including the Rainbow, have already examined Dr. Jensens proofs and credentials as the Promised One; many of whom are actively teaching the "new song" and preparing others to survive the winds of destruction and to enter the resultant Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, Paradise, Utopia, Nirvana. Will you be there? I hope so.
Each person is created with an intellect and free will. These capacities allow us to independently search for the truth; eventually, if we seek hard enough, we find it. What you choose to do at that time is strictly up to you, its called the freedom of choice. God has chosen you to hear part of the message now. This is the most important news since mankind crawled out the ocean as an amoeba! The cosmic bell is tolling. The Seventh Angel has sounded his trumpet. Let those who have ears listen. Will you put your head in the sand like an ostrich or will you sing like the nightingale in the heaven of true knowledge? Seek the truth and the truth will set you free.