wovoka 4

Then we were seated on rich skins... 

of animals unknown to me...

before the open door of the teepee of the Great Spirit... 

and told how to say the prayers and perform the dances...

I am now come to show my brothers. 

And the Great Spirit spoke to us saying:

"Take this message to my red children... 

and tell it to them as I say it. 

I have neglected the Indians for many moons... 

but I will make them My people now, if they obey me in this message. 

The Earth is getting old, and I will make it new for my chosen people, the Indians, who are to inhabit it, and among them will be all those of their ancestors who have died, their fathers, mothers, brothers, cousins and wives - all those who hear My voice and My words through the tongues of My children. 

I will cover the Earth with new soil... 

to a depth of five times the height of a man, and under this new soil will be buried all the whites, and all the holes and the rotten places will be filled up. 

The new lands will be covered with sweet-grass and running water and trees, and herds of buffalo and ponies will stray over it, that my red children may eat and drink, hunt and rejoice. 

And the sea to the west I will fill up, so that no ships may pass over it, and the other seas will I make impassable. 

And while I am making the New Earth... 

the Indians who have heard this message and who dance and pray and believe... 

will be taken up in the air and suspended there... 

while the wave of New Earth is passing. 

Then set down, among the Ghosts of their ancestors, relatives and friends. 

Those of my children who doubt... 

will be left in undesirable places... 

where they will be lost and wander around... 

until they believe and learn the songs and the dance of the Ghosts. 

And while My children are dancing... 

and making ready to join the Ghosts... 

they shall have no fear of the white man, for I will take from the white man the secret of making gunpowder, and the powder they now have on hand will not burn when it is directed against the red people, My children, who know the songs and dances of the ghosts. 

But that powder which My children, the red men, have, will burn and kill when it is directed against the whites, and used by those who believe. 

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And if a red man die at the hands of the whites while he is dancing, his spirit will only go to the end of the Earth, and there join the Ghosts of his Fathers, and return to his friends next spring. 

Go then, my children, and tell these things to all the people...

and make all ready for the coming of the Ghosts."

[bron]