The Nine Hopi Signs Were Matched to History After the Fact

The nine signs look like an ancient countdown, and that is the surprise. They were fitted to modern history after the events happened.

The Hopi, a Native American people in Arizona, do hold traditional teachings about balance and consequences. Outsiders have seen and photographed dark stone tablets for over a hundred years, and elders say they are still waiting for a missing corner to return.

In 2017, Tommy Banyacya, the son of Hopi interpreter Thomas Banyacya, explained what that teaching meant. His father was raised speaking Hopi as a first language and learned English through a Bible, which led him to choose the term prophecy. Tommy said it was really a warning about cause and effect when people fall out of balance, not a fixed calendar of inventions.

The checklist reads differently. White men who strike enemies with thunder become European settlers with guns. Spinning wheels filled with voices become the more than 400,000 settlers who rolled west in covered wagons. A horned beast like a buffalo becomes longhorn cattle, which replaced some 30 million slaughtered buffalo.

Iron snakes become nearly 200,000 miles of railroad track laid by 1900. A spider web becomes more than 5 million miles of telegraph, telephone, and power wire. Rivers of stone become highways, black seas become major oil spills, and long-haired youth become 1960s hippies who visited Hopi villages until the tribal council banned them.

Historian Armin Geertz traced recorded Hopi predictions to the eighteen-thirties. He discovered that particular details about wire webs, atomic bombs, and moon landings appeared in records only after those technologies existed. No one has located the clergyman said to have given an elder named White Feather a ride on a desert highway in 1958, and the nine-sign list did not appear in print until a 1980 book about earth changes, when the first eight signs had already occurred.