Day of the Dead

Posted on Eric's, sniff, popular blog, and reposted here:

Eric, you say you are an atheist. I'm posting the report below as an small example of spiritual events that happen in my life that tell me God is alive and well and is still quietly running the show, the complete shebang from top to bottom, inside out, from birth to death, from Big Bang beginning to Black Hole annihilation.
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This is the Day of the Dead. In honor of my departed mother and my wonderful daughter who share this birthday and in quiet honor to the Creator who guided me on this day to do the fifth sanctifying ritual that created Paxcalibur, God's Gift to humanity and the most amazing sword ever seen on earth.

From the Story of Paxcalibur-

The fifth step of the Paxcalibur ritual was not a baptism per se. It was done on the Day the Dead, All Souls Day (Nov. 2nd) of this year, 2001. It was performed on Indian Island in our county, the site of one of America's largest but little known massacres of Native American peoples and of the most gruesome ones.

I asked for and received permission from the Wiyot tribe to go to their former religious ceremonial island site that was invaded in 1860 by a white settler death squad which butchered nearly 200 Wiyot women, children and old men. The able-bodied men had left before, thinking the settlers were looking for them only and wouldn't harm innocent women and children.

This massacre and the Indian War period in California during the 1860's created a Holocaust for local tribes that still reverberates to this day. Tribes were extinguished all together, tribal lands taken, tribal languages lost, artifacts taken, and survivors mixed together into artificially created new tribes destroying tribal identities.

Paxcalibur, a weapon that has never been used as such will not be baptized here but was allowed to "taste" the old blood soaked soil of Indian Island where this tragedy of warfare occurred. Pax was stuck into the old blood-soaked ground of Indian Island to form a grave marker cross while a prayer for the dead and the living was given.

This fifth Paxcalibur ritual along with the 5th baptism in the Jordan River is symbolic of the death of the 4th World and birth of the 5th World in Hopi prophesy

-from the Pax miracles list

So, altogether, over 18,000 acres of forest land and coastal land has been preserved forever at three out of the four sites the Paxcalibur ritual was performed. And there may be more as the former Director of Sanctuary Forest was so impressed by Pax's record when I told him about it he asked me to do the ritual for another disputed land site of some 3500 acres.

July 1, 2004 Update:

A big step towards the full return of Indian Island to the Wiyot people happened on June 25th of this year when the City of Eureka turned over 40 acres of the island to the Wiyot tribe.

Here is a local newsmagazine photo of happy Wiyots with Indian Island in the background. The Paxcalibur ritual was done on Indian Island Nov. 2nd, 2001.

The Wiyot people have worked hard to reclaim Indian Island and they are the ones who should receive credit for this property transference. But I don't think Old Man Above, the Wiyot concept of God the Father, has forgotten them at all.