THE TEMPLE DOORS
Hyemeyohsts Storm
Some people have
said that a Representative government is what we know to be a
Democracy. Others say that Freedom is what makes a Democracy. Others
will insist that Democracy is a balance between State and Church.
There are also those who say that Democracy is a balance between the rich and the poor. And there are those who will claim that Democracy is the balance between the learned and the unschooled. The bold say that Democracy is tolerance and the acceptance of all races and peoples as being equal.
The woman known as Temple Doors said all this and more about Democracy many hundreds of years ago. She said that in actuality the founding principle of a true Democracy was a Representative government that was perfectly balanced between female and male, because this Balance is the Source of all that is Living and Natural.
She never
used the words Democracy or Democratic, but she did use the words
Circle of Law. By the time Temple Doors was born the
great Circles of Democracy - the Circle of Law - had been outlawed
and forbidden by the new feudalistic governing powers. She is the
human responsible for the preservation and renewal of the Circle of
Law throughout the Americas.
It is important to speak
of how the Medicine Wheels came to North America from South and
Central America, and were kept by the Zero Chiefs. According to the
records kept by the Flower Soldiers, the weather patterns of Mother
Earth went through incredible changes. Places that were once
beautiful plains filled with animals and grass changed over a period
of a thousand years to become jungles or deserts.
Five great
migrations of people left Central America and settled the North;
these were called the Great Webs or Spider Roads by the record
keepers. These large migrations occurred between one thousand and
three thousand years ago.
The Spider Woman Keepers
are responsible for the information we have of these migrations. For
simplicity's sake, the name Spider Woman can be translated as
"Guardian Keeper" or "Corn Carrier." The reason for this is because
the tradition grew up out of the Gardeners. These women not only
kept the Gardens, they also kept the history.
Temple Doors
was the Priestess-General responsible for one of the largest of the
great migrations. She led her people north, out of Central America,
into what we presently know as our Southwest. This great migration
took place between two thousand and twenty-five hundred years ago.
During this journey, half of her people perished from war, disease,
and hunger. It was this woman General who brought the Great Circle
of Law and all the Medicine Wheels to the North. She also brought
corn, squash, beans, and turkeys.
Temple Doors was born to
the Butterfly People. At this time these people controlled the
tribal city-states south of Mexico City.
The hundreds of
city-states of the Yucatán had been founded by Tribes of many
diverse groups and languages. Each city-state had its Great Temple.
The Center Temple, or Great Temple, was everything to its people
because it held the distinction of "possessing the Name of the
Divine." This meant that the Temple was known by the name of the
Goddess and God of the city-state. Each Temple was the seat of the
law, the university, the place of records, the treasury, the place
of information, the hospital, the war academy, and the place of
prayer.
At the time of the birth of Temple Doors, the
Mayan city-states had been in constant war with each other for
nearly three hundred years. The wars had started in the aftermath of
horrible earthquakes and exploding volcanoes that had leveled
hundreds of cities and Temples. The Lords of the land were brutal
men who would stop at nothing to get their way. The sacrifice
priests taught these Feudal Lords that people could be ruled only by
fear.
The Lords, in their turn, taught that only the fang and the
tooth of experience were understood by "the common people," who were
"incapable of learning."
However, the Flower
Soldiers taught that human sacrifice and slavery were forbidden, and
that every human possessed the natural right to have a Voice in
government. Democracy-the Circle of Law-had been discovered by the
Zero Chiefs thousands of years before this time and was held to be
Sacred by every Flower Soldier.
By the time Temple Doors
became the commander of the Flower Soldiers, she violently opposed
the sacrifice priests of the Temples and Lords who held their people
in perpetual slavery. A bloody war ensued that lasted five
years.
After yet another bitter struggle and more useless bloodshed,
the courageous Temple Doors decided to lead the Flower Soldiers and
any of her people who wanted to go with them, north into the "Land
of the Wild People." In the new land, they could find Freedom and
rebuild their civilization based on the balance and teachings of the
Medicine Wheels. Temple Doors led twenty-four thousand people or
more, overland, north out from the Mayan peninsula, through the
length of Mexico and into the Southwest of the present-day United
States. On this great migration, she fought and won many battles and
helped her people survive every kind of privation and
disease.
Temple Doors was a Priestess and a General.
However, her most important contribution to the world was the
reordering and rebuilding of the Discipline of the Flower
Soldiers.
Temple Doors was a very important person in human
history. Volumes could be written about her by the people of Mexico
and we Northerners, and still there would be more to say. But time
is needed before this will be done. The Temple known as Desert
Flower is the source of our information concerning the early
migrations to the North from the Yucatán. This Temple is now known
as the ruins of Chaco Canyon. The woman who began the building of
the Desert Flower was the Zero Chief Temple Doors.
The cities of
Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly were built by the people who
took on the name of their Chief, calling themselves the Temple
Doors. The sophisticated network of roads, cisterns, forts, Kivas,
buildings, farms, and pueblos were all built by the people of Temple
Doors.
Temple Doors originally settled many of her armies and
peoples at Canyon de Chelly. They began building immediately.
However, at this same time, a dedicated group of highly disciplined
and skilled Medicine Soldiers, with their General, Temple Doors,
began the construction of their Schools and Temples at the Desert
Flower in Chaco Canyon. Her dream and the dream of her apprentices
was to build a new civilization based on the teaching of the
Medicine Wheels and the Circle of Law. The Desert Flower was
designed to be their first main Center of Teaching and
Healing.
The General lived for many years. It is thought
that she was over eighty-three at the time of her death.
Hyemeyohsts
Storm is the legendary and world renowned author and teacher who
first introduced the knowledge of the Medicine Wheels to the modern
world in his best selling classic "Seven Arrows", published in 1972,
and now in its 46th printing.
He is a Northern Cheyenne
and German mixed blood, who was born and raised on Indian
reservations in Montana. In his latest book "Lightning Bolt", Storm
continues to reveal for the first time new, compelling information
of the Legacy of the Zero Chiefs and their Sacred Medicine Wheel
Teachings.