HONORING THE ANCIENT ONES
ON THE GREAT PYRAMID
by ROBERT MORNING SKY
Released May 16, 1999
Updated June 5, 1999
For your consideration…
THE MAY 10TH PROPHECY OF NOSTRADAMUS - (CENTURY 9, QUATRAIN 83)
Sol vingt de Taurus si fort terre trembler.
(1) The sun in twenty degrees of Taurus (May 10), there will be a great earthquake.
Le grand theatre rempli ruinera,
(2) the great theatre completed (something) will be ruined,
L'air ciel & terre obscurcir & troubler
(3) The air, sky and earth will darken and trouble
Lors l'infidelle Dieu & sainctz voguera.
(4) When the infidel moves toward God and the Sainted
Egyptian scholars agree that the Great Pyramid of Egypt was used in ancient times as a 'grand stage' (or theater) for the ceremonies and coronations of Pharaohs and Kings.
(a) pyramids - called 'm-r' by the Egyptians, a monument erected as a tomb and stage for mortuary rituals - 'A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, p. 211, M. Bunson, Oxford, 1991
(b) pyramids - giant ben-bens (that) served as a stage for rituals and commemorative ceremonies that served the Egyptians in all eras - 'A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, p. 44, M. Bunson, Oxford, 1991
This permits the following possible reading of the above prophecy…
Sol vingt de Taurus si fort terre trembler.
(1) On May 10, there will be a great earthquake.
Le grand theatre rempli ruinera,
(2) the grand theatre ('Great Pyramid') completed (something) will be ruined,
L'air ciel & terre obscurcir & troubler
(3) The air, sky and earth will cause darkness and trouble
Lors l'infidelle Dieu & sainctz voguera.
(4) When the infidel moves toward God and the Sainted
Extracting the English translations only…
(1) On May 10, there will be a great earthquake.
(2) the grand theatre ('Great Pyramid') completed (something) will be ruined,
(3) The air, sky and earth will cause darkness and trouble
(4) When the infidel moves toward God and the Sainted
(1) On Monday morning, May the 10th, 1999, at 6:07 a.m., the Earthquake Epicenter EMSC Rapid Determination Center registered an earthquake in Egypt (just southeast of Cairo) measuring over 4.1 on the Richter scale.
(2) On Monday morning, May the 10th, 1999, Robert Morning Sky placed a sunstone carved into a perfect pyramidion with 51 degree sides on the top of the Great Pyramid. Covered with sand, the pyramidion stone still remains hidden in the very center of the Pyramid peak. Symbolically, the Great Pyramid has been 'completed'.
(3) On Monday morning, May the 10th, 1999, the sunrise over Cairo was obscured for nearly an hour by an unexpected combination of the wind and dust ('earth') that resulted in a black cloud that covered the entire area. The 'air' (wind) and 'earth' (dust) 'darkened and disturbed' the sky and earth until the dark cloudy body eventually moved to the southeast.
(3) On Monday morning, May the 10th, 1999, for the first couple of hours of the morning, the temperatures in Cairo dropped and became very cold, causing several spectators watching the Honoring Dance to shiver and tremble from the unexpected summer chill.
(3) On the morning of May 10th, in moments just prior to the ascent to the peak of the of May 10th, Robert Morning Sky refused to permit individuals not named on the appropriate permit to climb to the top of the Great Pyramid. By refusing to commit a criminal trespass in a foreign country, 'the Sky' caused 'trouble' for those people who attempted to force their way onto the Great Pyramid.
(4) On Monday morning, May the 10th, 1999, Robert Morning Sky, a skeptic and disbeliever (one of the definitions of 'infidel' is 'disbeliever') performed an Honoring Dance for the 'Ancient Ones' on the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. In effect, 'The infidel moved towards God and the Sainted'.
THE PYRAMIDION - (THE PYRAMID 'CAPSTONE')
The top of a pyramid is called the 'pyramidion'. In ancient Egypt, there are two words for 'pyramidion'. One word is identified as…
ges - pyramidion - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary, p. 813a]
It is argued by some scholars that somewhere in the far distant past, a Mother Tongue gave birth to the languages of Humankind. From this ancient language, basic linguistic roots for some of the oldest languages on Earth were born. Thus, words with a common root sound may be related. For example, the word 'gaia' (earth) is the root (geo-) from which the words 'geo-graphy' (the mapping of earth), 'geo-metry' (the study of forms, lines and shapes on earth), 'geo-desy' (the study of the shape and area of earth) and 'geo-ology' (the study of the earth's crust) are derived. From this simple example, we can see that 'geo-' rooted words have a common 'ancestor'.
Since in ancient languages, the consonant sound 'g' was often interchanged with the consonant sound 'k' or 'kh', we suggest that some 'ges' and 'kes' based words also had a common 'ancestral' root. In the following examples, the 'ges'/'kes' ancestral root revolved around the 'pyramidion' or 'capstone' of a pyramid…
kes - to do homage - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 797a]
keskes - to dance, dancing - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 797b]
qes - times of the ancestors - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 778a]
khes - to honor to - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 508a]
khes - to sing, to chant - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 508b]
khesu - chant, song - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 509a]
The following two 'kh-s' rooted words are also offered…
khesi - trembling or shivering - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 510b]
kesem - stormy - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 797b]
The second word for 'pyramidion' in ancient Egypt is…
benben-t - pyramidion - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 217b]
Ben-ben-t is also defined as…
benben-t - sanctuary of the benben stone - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 217b]
benben-t - sanctuary of the sun-stone - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 217b]
The 'pyramidion', the top of the pyramid, is a 'sanctuary of the sun-stone'! Additional Egyptian words based on the 'ben-ben' root are…
benben - pyramid - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 217a]
benu - the Benu bird (see following) - [Budge Hieroglyphics Dictionary 218a]
In short, the Egyptian words for 'pyramidion' - 'ges' and 'ben-ben' - have linguistic roots which may link them to the concepts of 'to honor', 'homage', 'to dance', 'time of the ancestors', 'stormy', 'shivering', 'sanctuary of the sunstone' and the 'Benu Bird'.
THE BENU BIRD - (ALSO KNOWN AS THE 'PHOENIX')
It was held by the ancient Egyptians that the return of the Benu bird to its 'ben-ben' home was a sign of the end of one era and the beginning of another. The subsequent symbolic 'death' of the Benu and the 'birth' of its progeny or 'new self' dramatically made the point - a new era was at hand. The Nostradamus prophecy tells us that the 'completion of the Great Pyramid' would cause the 'ruin' or 'the end' of something. Taken together, we can suggest that we are being told that an 'old era' is ending, and a 'new era' is about to unfold.
Can links be made between the Bennu/Phoenix bird and Honoring Dance performed by Robert Morning Sky on May the 10th?
Legend says that the home of the Bennu bird is Heliopolis, the 'City of the Sun'. Robert Morning Sky's home is Phoenix, the 'City of the Sun'.
The Bennu bird is said to have a form that is half-man and half-bird. When appearing in public school programs, Robert Morning Sky, when in full feathered regalia, is invariably described by children as being half-man and half-bird.
At Koptos in Egypt, the Bennu bird is depicted with two human arms stretched upwards and outwards toward the star. So this ('Sirius'), which appears in the early sky before the sun rises. Robert's Honoring required him to face all four directions with his arms stretched upwards and outwards in the early sky before the sun rose.
The Bennu bird is said to have wings that are red and white, tipped in gold. Robert Morning Sky's dance bustles, which appear like wings when viewed from the front, were primarily red and white with specially prepared golden fringe placed at the tips.
The Bennu bird is known for the two distinct straight feathers that appear on the top of its head. Robert Morning Sky's headpiece, the 'roach', has two prominent eagle feathers that project straight out on its crown.
The Bennu bird has a 'unique tuft of feathers on the back of its head'. Robert Morning Sky's headpiece, the 'roach', has a tail that ends in tuft of three feathers, a hawk feather, a quail feather and a golden turkey feather.
The Phoenix/Bennu bird is said to arise 'at dawn from the waters of the Nile'. Robert Morning Sky's began to climb the Great Pyramid just before dawn.
The Phoenix/Bennu bird, according to one description, is said to have a 'golden neck'. Robert Morning Sky's neck-piece, a 'mini-breast plate', is made of white bone with bright brass beads that make it appear golden.
The Phoenix/Bennu bird, according to another description, has a breast that is 'scarlet or reddish-gold'. Robert Morning Sky wears a red scarf under his bright brass neck-piece.
The Phoenix/Bennu bird, according to one description, has a 'plum-colored breast with a long tail of rose and azure'. On the morning of the Honoring, Robert Morning Sky wore a bright lavender shirt. As he has done for the last nine years, he wore two long flowing scarves at his waist, one royal blue, the other royal purple with shades of red.
The Phoenix/Bennu bird is linked to the color red. The Morning Sky family colors are red, white and black.
The Bennu bird is often referred to in Egyptian writings as 'the Morning Star'. Robert Morning Sky is quite often mistakenly referred to as Robert 'Morning Star'.
The Phoenix/Bennu bird is linked with summer. Robert Morning Sky prefers warm weather. Robert does not run in winter, he prefers warm weather and runs daily during the hottest hours of Phoenix summers.
An ancient manual of rites said of the Phoenix: 'Its colour delights the eye, its comb expresses righteousness, its tongue utters sincerity…its heart conforms to regulations…' The colors of Robert Morning Sky's regalia enthralled the Egyptian people. The two eagle feathers on the top of Robert's head piece represent Truth and Integrity. Robert refused to allow others to climb the Great Pyramid without the appropriate permits from Egyptian authorities.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROOF OF PROPHECY
Native American Elders have one way to test the fulfillment of a prophecy. If the prophecy is fulfilled, the 'sign' will appear…twice. For example, the prophecy of the birth of the white buffalo calf would be fulfilled - not with the birth of the first calf - but with the birth of the second white calf. (In fact, a second white buffalo calf was born.) One Biblical tradition, in fact, holds that Jesus was twins (Jesus and Thomas Jude). In Israel, the prophecy of the birth of a red calf was fulfilled…two red heifers have been born.
To satisfy this tradition, Robert Morning Sky performed the Honoring Dance twice on the Great Pyramid on May 10th. After the first Honoring, Robert climbed down several levels, then turned and returned to the peak. The second Honoring was performed at approximately sunrise.
THE HONORING
"Huta! (Pause) Huta! (Pause) Huta! (Pause) Hear me, Oh Ancient Ones! I told you that I would come here! Hear me, Ea! I told you that I would come here! Here in this place, I shall be the fire! Here in this place, I shall be the dancer! Here in this place, I shall be the Ko!"
"I have come to honor the ones who built this place. I have come to honor the ones who carried the stones to this place. I wish to dance for the 'Nobodies' who put the stones in their place by the sweat of their brows. I want to dance for the 'Nobodies' who sealed the stones in their place with the tears of their toil. To those 'Nobodies' of long ago, I have come to pay my respects. I shall dance in recognition of your existence and your labors. Perhaps your 'Masters' claimed the glory of this place, but it was your sweat and tears that built this 'eye of heaven'."
"I am here, ancient ones. I am here as one of your descendants. I shall dance until the sweat of my brow mingles with yours. I shall dance until the tears of happiness and pride fall from my eyes to join with yours. In this way, I shall join with you, I shall become one with you. I am a Nobody. But from the backs of Nobodies, this Pyramid was born. From the 'Renegade' spirit of Nobodies, new paths are found, and from the fire of Nobodies, the world and the future is born. I am a Nobody…and I am proud of it. From one Nobody to another, from one time to another. HUTA!"
(Pause. The Four Directions are touched once again, then a return to the center.)
"Huta! (Pause) Huta! (Pause) Huta! (Pause) Hear me, Oh Ancient Ones! I told you that I would come here! Hear me, Ea! I told you that I would come here! Here in this place, I shall be the fire! Here in this place, I shall be the dancer! Here in this place, I shall be the Ko!"
"I have come to honor the Ancient Ones who gave Humankind the heart to build this place. I have come to honor the Ancient Ones who gave the builders the fire and strength to bring the stones to this place. I will dance for the Ancient Ones in the stars who are our ancestors. We are your children, we are your descendants, we are your blood. We will take our place in the stars, we will prove our fire, and we will all someday dance as Star Warriors. If you cannot help us, then at least do not hinder us. Allow us the honor of the Warrior Way. We will not fail."
"I am here, Ancient Ones. I am here as one of your descendants. I shall dance until my heart rises to join with yours. I shall dance until my feet walk alongside yours. In this way, I shall join with you, I shall become one with you. I am a Nobody…but I am a Star Warrior. From one Star Warrior to another…HUTA!"
THE DANCE - (SKIP THIS PART, TOO UNBELIEVABLE)
On the highest stone on the top of the Great Pyramid, I began to dance to the drum of the Ancient Ones. The stone was approximately three feet by three feet square and very flat. As youngsters, Fancy Dancers are taught to dance within a hoop. Their footwork must be fast and sure, and they may not leave the hoop. Spins, turns and squats must be performed at full speed and must not result in the Dancer falling or leaving the hoop. The three by three stone was enough. The footing was excellent and it allowed good speed to develop.
As I began to dance and spin on the highest stone on the Pyramid, I began to lose all sense of reality. I had danced in countless pow-wows, stages and mediums, but I had never danced in the sky. The wind was blowing, the stars were within my grasp, my feet were dancing on a pinhead, and I was flying. The emotion of the moment is indescribable. How can I explain the feelings that overwhelmed me? I was dancing on a structure that was easily 6000 years old! I was alone in the sky, paying tribute to the 'Nobodies' of the distant past, performing for the star beings above, proving that the blood of my ancestors was alive and well, still burning in my veins.
Flying, dancing, floating, twirling, spinning…I was caught up in the moment. I could feel the heat of my body building up, I could feel the fire forming beads of sweat all over me. As I continued to spin, the droplets began to fly outwards. A miniature rain-storm, I thought to myself. Look at me, oh ancient ancestors, I said to myself, I am making rain for you. I am making rain on top of the Great Pyramid! Watch as I make the clouds appear.
I do not know how long I danced. I know that I was able to dance as fast as I had ever danced before. I was excited, I was happy, I was proud. I could see three large stones just below me. I do not know why, but I jumped down to them. I could hear my guide's gasp as I leaped. But there was no cause for alarm. I would not fall that day. I believed - I knew - that I could have danced on the side of a wall that morning. The Morning Sky Dancer would not fall. I danced from stone to stone, feeling as if I were dancing from cloud to cloud.
Then it happened. The unbelievable. At first I thought I was watching small beads of sweat being thrown outwards, sparkling from some unknown source of light. Tiny, minuscule lights flew out and away. Each one looked like a tiny meteorite perhaps only a quarter of an inch in length. Clouds, sky, stars and tiny chasing stars…what a morning! As I jumped back on top of the highest stone again, I heard my guide asking me to stop. I thought he had become concerned for my safety. My leaping from stone to stone must have caused him some distress, I thought to myself. A final few spins as fast as I could go and then I fell to one knee. It was over.
I was down on one knee, facing North. As I stayed there momentarily, looking around me, I could see that the dark cloud that had obscured the sunrise had become almost black, moving behind me to the southeast. I looked skyward, the stars were beginning to disappear. As I dropped my gaze to the streets of Cairo below me, I noticed that the little lights, the tiny chasing stars had not disappeared. It wasn't sweat. My heart was pounding, I had been dancing hard, I had climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid in full 30 pound regalia in twenty minutes, perhaps I was about to pass out. The little sparkling lights were my version of the dark spots one sees just before they faint. But I felt fine. Yet the lights didn't stop.
My guide called out again. 'Stop, Mr. Robert, stop!' he said. As I turned to look at him, his face was filled with surprise or shock…or something. I could see it in his face. He could see them! He could see the little sparks that were all around me. I looked down at my arm bustles and my dance baton and medicine wheel, little lights were everywhere! I had been in a light ice storm once, tiny ice crystals were falling all around, sparkling like I was in a ticker tape parade. Here they were again, super little ice confetti particles falling down all over me. It had to be an illusion, I thought. But my guide saw them! No, I thought. I have been gifted. The Ancient Ones have given me a sign that they saw me, they heard me and they acknowledged me. This was my gift. No one else in the world, except for my guide, had witnessed this. This was mine.
In the next few moments, when the tiny lights finally subsided, my guide and I exchanged our thoughts and appreciation. We exchanged gifts, we thanked the Ancient Ones, and we turned to make our way back. I had danced on the peak of the Great Pyramid, and my ancestors, the ancestors of Humankind…had given me a sign.
At the base of the Great Pyramid, my guide and I began to make our way back down the causeway towards the conference center. I walked by the Sphinx, a structure even more imposing and mysterious, one which I would someday return to visit. When I finally rejoined my family and crew, we spent some time with our Egyptian hosts and took dozens of photographs of everyone. One photograph in particular has become a favorite since our return. It shows me downing a bottle of Pepsi, complete with Egyptian writing on the bottle, in front of the Sphinx. (Those who know Robert will appreciate the significance of this photograph - Note from the Morning Sky Family)
After finally removing my dance regalia and my soaking wet buckskin leathers, my family and I made our way to one of the breakfast buffets at one of the local hotels. It was excellent and I had worked up quite an appetite! After a delicious meal, we sat back to talk about the events of the morning. What came out nearly floored me. I had not said a word to anyone about the lights that I had seen at the top of the Pyramid (after all who would believe me?), yet as we sat at the table several of my crew began to describe the sparks of light that they had seen coming from the top of the Great Pyramid as I had danced! They had seen the lights! At that point, I refused to discuss the lights further, asking each of the family to make notes of what they saw. Now that we have returned, I have asked them to write down their observations.