Hiawatha and the Great Peace

by Torkom Saraydarian

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911794255
• ISBN13: 9780911794250
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: TSG Publishing Foundation, Inc.
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Legend of Hiawatha and Deganawidah

This book is based on a true story. The Legend of Hiawatha and the great Native American prophet, Deganawidah, is one of the most inspiring stories in all religious and political history. This legend is based on real life happenings occurring before Columbus came to the Americas in 1492. This is a story of a virgin birth of a Native American, the great prophet, Deganawidah, miracles, cannibalism, black magic with an evil Mohawk shaman, transformation of character, establishing a wonderful political and social structure in America, and the foundation of representative democracy that led to the formation of the American Constitution. It is my hope that every Native American will become familiar with this marvelous legend. It can help to restore their sense of spiritual contact with the higher worlds. They need to realize that God, our Great Grandfather, sent messengers to the Red Man in America long before there was any contact with the Europeans. The vision of this Legend will help empower the Native American to live in harmony with the Great Spirit. Some prominent medicine people (traditional spiritual counselors) among the Indians now are carrying out the mission of Deganawidah and Hiawatha, by seeking to restore the sense of what it truly means to be an Indian. The true and traditional Native American is a person who is in contact with the higher worlds. Saraydarian superimposes on this legend his version of what likely occurred, weaving in and out of the history the inspired oratory of Hiawatha who was a masterful orator. The author makes Hiawatha the dominant person in this book. Hiawatha is the one who gives almost all the messages. The messages are the essence of spiritual and political wisdom, expressed in great simplicity and beauty. It is as if someone who was actually there recorded the speeches, and used the power of verbal music to convey the essence of the meaning. This is the expression of Saraydarian's genius. Deganawidah was the prophet of the Great Peace, born to a virgin Huron maiden on the north side of Lake Ontario. Although he had great spiritual power, called orenda, he had a speech impediment and used his spiritual brother, Hiawatha, as his spokesman when dealing with the five original tribes that became the Iroquois nation. The Great Spirit sent Deganawidah to put an end to the constant warfare, cannibalism and revenge killing that was so prevalent among the tribes of upper state New York. When eighteen Deganawidah rowed his white stone canoe across Lake Ontario to the spiritually dark world he was to transform. After he and Hiawatha established the foundation of the Great Peace, at the age of twenty-three Deganawidah rowed away to the West in his white stone canoe and was never heard from again. Hiawatha remained among the Iroquois for many years and is still highly revered by them. There is strong evidence to suggest that the political system of the Iroquois influenced Benjamin Franklin and oth

A message of great beauty for humanity

This is a profoundly mystical, beautiful and inspiringbook. Words fail to truly describe it. Perhaps, one has to be 'tunedin' to very high vibrations to really be 'in touch' with its depths, its profundity. It is a Message of great Beauty to humanity ... it is a vision for the Future. One feels deep sadness of heart when one realizes the sorrow and suffering brought to Our beloved Native American brothers as the white man stole his land, starved his people, killed them and forced them to live isolated lives on reservations. But the VISION within this book as revealed by Torkom Saraydarian, gives one hope that one day the GREAT PEACE will come into the hearts of ALL humanity and on- to the planet - making it the Sacred Planet it was designed to be - by the Great Spirit. In the forming of the Confederacy of the five nations, Hiawatha gave to the world a blueprint for democracy and- a Future VISION for humanity to express the Great Peace between ALL peoples and- nations.