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A Sign of Hope
Topic Started: May 14 2006, 09:06 AM (109 Views)
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Baby buffalo believed to be good luck charm
Created: 5/8/2006 3:14 PM MST - Updated: 5/8/2006 3:34 PM MST

EVERGREEN - In 40 years, ranchers at the Big E Game ranch say they've never received such a special delivery.

It's the first white buffalo calf ever born on the ranch, which doubles as a wild game preserve.



Out of 50 head, the ranch now has three white buffalos. Some Native American tribes believe the white buffalo is a sign of good things to come.



The ranch purchased two white Buffalo cows from the White Elk Ranch in Gunnison last March.

White buffalos can fetch up to 10 times the average price of the more common brown buffalo.

The calf's father died last winter making this baby buffalo the last generation to come from the prized bull.

"It's been a tough winter and it's a promise of a great summer with the calves being born, but not only the calves but a white calf," says Ronald Lewis, with Big E Game Ranch.

Lewis says he still hasn't been able to get close enough to the calf, but he feels certain it's a bull, which is even more rare.

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It's a very good sign!!!

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I couldn't help but notice the symbols in the report........




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Baby buffalo believed to be good luck charm
Created: 5/8/2006 3:14 PM MST - Updated: 5/8/2006 3:34 PM MST

EVERGREEN - In 40 years, ranchers at the Big E Game ranch say they've never received such a special delivery.







40 is the number of trial and testing. This story is situated at the end of trial and tribulation.





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It's the first white buffalo calf ever born on the ranch, which doubles as a wild game preserve.



Out of 50 head, the ranch now has three white buffalos. Some Native American tribes believe the white buffalo is a sign of good things to come.








50 is the number of new beginning. 3 is the number of those of the rebellion, typically 1/3, but not demonstrable in whole terms so often shown as 3. In this case, the 3 are those replacing (supplanting) the original, those who "died during the winter" age.






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The ranch purchased two white Buffalo cows from the White Elk Ranch in Gunnison last March.





They are the product of 2 "purchased", Wife and Bride, from which those replacers have been shown.




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White buffalos can fetch up to 10 times the average price of the more common brown buffalo.






10 is the number of completion, and 10 times is completion amplified. The price paid has completed the purchase.




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The calf's father died last winter making this baby buffalo the last generation to come from the prized bull.







The father (Lucifer) of the original family (the original rebellious) "died" in the "winter".






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"It's been a tough winter and it's a promise of a great summer with the calves being born, but not only the calves but a white calf," says Ronald Lewis, with Big E Game Ranch.

Lewis says he still hasn't been able to get close enough to the calf, but he feels certain it's a bull, which is even more rare.





Lucifer's replacement has been "born". :twocents:

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If what you say is true and must come to pass before the new begining, then let it be so. The heart :beatingheart: is much more powerful than the devil's :devil: deception. It is still a sign of hope as it is a sign of the coming end :jail:, and a new begining. :groupbyfire: Griz


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Lakota Grandfather Wallace Black Elk had seen in visions that the valley would one day be filled with a large herd of buffalo, most of them white . .

HERD OF HOPE

With the birth of the eleventh white buffalo calf, a small herd of these mythic bison is emerging on Turtle Island (North America).
Does this miraculous family bring a much-needed omen of peace in a time of uncertainty and fear?


The birth of a white buffalo in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1994 was regarded in the ancient lore of Turtle Island (North America) as an important and hope-bearing sign. The first calf was named Miracle and since her appearance ten more white buffalo have been born, all females until the appearance last year of the first white bull, named Arizona Spirit.
Four of those white buffalo, including the newest one who is the first white male, roam the range at Spirit Mountain Ranch, located at the base of the western-most of the 'Sacred Four Corners' - the San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Jim and Dena Riley, owners of Spirit Mountain Ranch and caretakers of the buffalo, have named the new calf 'Arizona Spirit.' "The people here have been wonderful," the Rileys said, "just great neighbours and supporters. We wanted to acknowledge that with the name of this first white buffalo bull."
In a world wracked with severe military, economic, environmental and social turmoil, the white buffaloes are regarded as a crucial wake-up call to human beings from the realms of Nature and Spirit, and an urgent prompt for the coming together in peace of different faiths and ethnic groups before they destroy themselves out of greed, hate and blindness.
The hope associated with the white buffalos stems primarily from Lakota teachings about the appearance nineteen generations ago of a great soul, a female spiritual teacher named Pte San Wi (White Buffalo Calf Woman). She gave the people important teachings about life, and caring for the earth which sustains them. The ecumenical 'peace pipe' she brought has been handed down for nineteen generations, and is perhaps the most symbolic and sacred ceremonial item to the Native Americans. It is this legend (see page 16) from which all tribes derive their understanding of the sacred pipe .
When it came time for this Spirit Woman to depart she promised, as so many spiritual teachers have done throughout history, to return when the people were in a time of desperate need. She said the sign of her imminent return would be the birth of a white buffalo calf.
According to Lakota oral tradition, which has been maintained with meticulous care, the female white buffalo is a sacred symbol for all races and spiritual traditions to come together in peace, balance, and harmony in defence of something they have in common: the need for an honoured earth that provides human beings with the essentials of existence - clean food, water and air.
Some contemporary tradition keepers say that the buffalos also signal a profound spiritual shift on the earth, and serve as physical acknowledgement that prayers are being heard.
When the first white buffalo birth occurred, keepers of the tradition acknowledged that this was indeed the sign that they had been waiting for.
One Lakota Chief, Joseph Chasing Horse, said at the time, "We have been waiting for her return. It is the signal of things to come. Human beings have been systematically destroying the earth and its ecosystems, which in turn threatens humanity. We need to learn to tolerate one another's differences. We must take this sign and walk towards that spiritual unity."

PROPHECIES FULFILLED
While the first white buffalo of this era, Miracle, was born in Wisconsin in 1994. The first white buffalo born into the Rileys' herd arrived on April 30, 1997 in Colony, Wyoming, and was named Miracle Moon - so named because at birth she was thrown fifteen feet in the air while still in her birth sack by a two-year old bull - and survived!
Until a newborn buffalo is cleaned by its mother, they do not smell like a buffalo, and thus may seem to represent a threat. But after a day or two, they have the familiar buffalo smell, and bulls will not harm, but instead welcome and protect the calves.
As Miracle Moon got older, the Rileys decided to breed her with a buffalo bull named Willy Wonka. Miracle Moon gave birth to a white buffalo calf named Rainbow Spirit on June 8, 2000. According to traditional prophecy, when the white buffalo was born she would go through the same changes of colour as did White Buffalo Calf Woman: white, red, black and yellow.
Miracle Moon has four colours: when she sheds her coat in the summer she has red under her armpits and on her tummy. She has a fall colour of yellow and a winter colour of white, with a mouse colour underneath. She always has a bright white around her eyes and the darkest she ever gets is in winter, when black appears beneath her white topcoat (where the sun doesn't get to all year). Most of the year she is golden and white depending on how the sun shines on her.
The prophecy also stated that the white buffalo would be born to white people in the centre of the United States, and the bull would have to give his life for her. Rainbow Spirit and Miracle Moon were born near Belle Fourche, South Dakota, which is known as the 'Centre of the Nation'.

TWO MORE BIRTHS
Then on July 18, 2001 Miracle Moon gave birth to a second white calf. The Rileys named the new calf Peace Pilgrim in honour of the late Mildred Norman who took the name Peace Pilgrim and vowed: "I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the ways of peace."
Arizona Spirit is the third white calf to emerge from the union of Willy Wonka and Miracle Moon.
The Rileys took care to separate Willy from the pregnant females as their time of delivery drew near this summer after their experience of near-disaster at Miracle Moon's birth.

DREAMS COME TRUE
"The day that the white bull was born was bright, cool and breezy," Jim said, "just what buffalo require to give birth without undue stress. July 1st was a perfect day, very special for all of us. We closed up the shop, locked the gate, and let the mother, Miracle Moon, have peace to give birth."
After the birth of Spirit Mountain, Jim Riley said "We still have a hard time believing that we got another white buffalo, a fourth white buffalo for this herd, and that this time it's a bull. We have wanted a white bull ever since this all started. This birth makes it possible to develop a large herd of white buffalo."
Several months ago Lakota elder Wallace Black Elk stopped by Spirit Mountain Ranch to bless it, the caretakers, and the herd. He enjoyed his visit, then drove down to Flagstaff to check into a hotel for the night. But he could not sleep. He kept having a vision over and over.
The next day he made an unplanned return trip to ranch so he could tell the Rileys about his vision. Grandfather Black Elk told them he had seen in vision 'repeatedly' that the valley where the ranch is located (Kendrick's Park) would one day be filled with a large herd of buffalo, most of them white. He told the Rileys that according to his vision the very next white buffalo born on their ranch would be a bull. And so it was.
Likewise, several Dineh (Navajo) people have visited the ranch, which lies close to their reservation, and reported that they have had similar perceptions.

A VALLEY OF WHITE BUFFALO
White buffalo are exceedingly rare and all of the Rileys' white buffalos have been DNA tested twice and proved to be 100% pure North American bison - as white buffalo claims have sometimes resulted from albino birth or cross breeding with cows, or even yaks!
That four white buffalo have been born into one small herd is beyond phenomenal. Should that nucleus expand into a whole herd of white buffalos, it would be a real sign of hope,
"I feel the white buffalos have been put here for a reason, or reasons," Jim Riley says, "I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe one reason is to help bring back the great buffalo herds which once roamed America and fed the people." At the start of the twentieth century there were just a few hundred buffalo left, owing to the US government's intentional program to eradicate the millions of buffalo which once roamed free, and thereby starve the Native people who depended upon them for sustenance.
"But now at the start of the twenty-first century there has been a quiet resurgence in the buffalo population and they number an estimated half million. "In a few years," he says, "that population could swell to a million, and then the population would really explode. That would be great for the country."
Could the Kendrick's Park area just north of Flagstaff someday become a sanctuary for buffalo? Jim and Dena both hold a vision of that possibility. They say they received the vision the first time they ever laid eyes on Spirit Mountain Ranch - October 1st, 2001.
The Dineh Nation now holds the grazing rights on the land that lies between the ranch and Spirit Mountain (San Francisco Peaks). So it is possible that something could be worked out someday, and that the dramatically beautiful valley at the foot of Spirit Mountain will be filled with a thriving herd of white buffalo.

HEALING PRESENCE
Jim Riley has another observation about the white buffalos. "I feel the buffalo are definitely here to heal. I see that more and more. There is definitely some kind of healing power associated with them.
"A Dineh lady returned here to visit just a week ago, and brought her whole family with her. She told us that she had been in horrible pain for twenty-five years, from the moment she woke up each day until she fell asleep. But when she first came to visit the white buffalos something happened. She has had no pain ever since. She came back to the ranch to express her gratitude.
"When we were located up in Wyoming, after Miracle Moon had been born, a man came to visit in a wheelchair. He was a quadriplegic. Then he called us twelve days later, to tell us he was up and walking. I hear these kinds of stories all the time."
The Rileys have accumulated over thirty hours of video footage of the buffalos. They feel that sooner or later the right person will come along to help them edit and convert that footage into a high-quality video documentary so that people around the nation and the world can learn the inspiring story of the white buffalos.

VISITORS FROM ALL OVER
Visitors stop at Spirit Mountain Ranch every day. Many have no idea about the rich history of the white buffalos or the prophecies. The ranch sits on the main road from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon, and people drive by on their sight-seeing route, see the ranch sign, and stop out of curiosity.
But no matter whether they are steeped in the lore of the white buffalo, or just learning for the first time, almost all visitors are deeply touched. Some weep, some marvel, almost all smile warmly.
An admission fee is charged to visitors and donations are invited. With this income the Rileys just meet running costs, but they are facing some substantial financial challenges.
Dena says: "We love to share our beautiful and sacred animals with others and without those people's contributions that would not be possible. This is our life and our hearts are completely in this. At times it has not been not easy, but with all your prayers and support we were able to make it.
"When he turns two years old in 2004, Arizona Spirit will sire his own offspring. His presence has been strong since the day he was born, a curious and independant child - he has been a handful for Miracle Moon to fulfill her duties as his buffalo mother. Growing fast, he will be one impressive and beautiful buffalo bull.
"There have been people from all around the globe that have helped us and our buffalos since we arrived in Arizona. We are so grateful for all their help."

BRINGERS OF PEACE
"Our vision is to share the white buffalos with other countries and so spread their gift of peace and hope around the world. We hope we may be able to give white buffalos to well-chosen caretakers from different countries, to symbolise the healing of Mother Earth and all living creatures. The white buffalo represent World Peace. They stand for Unity, Balance, and Harmony and the coming together of different tribes.
The prophesied time is now. These are times of New Beginnings. So let us start something new, something good. The white buffalos deliver a strong message. When people look into the buffalos' eyes and see the gentle and kind look on their faces a deep memory is released, a remembrance that takes us far beyond anything we could comprehend. Their presence is so peaceful and so powerful at the same time that it has to make us realise that power has nothing to do with violence, but only with the silence that rests in our hearts.
Let us hear this message. It is our world - remember? We made it the way it is now, and if anyone can make it better, it is us. It is up to us. The white buffalos bring the message - we are the ones that should live the message. Together.
Sacred Hoop thanks Arwyn Dreamwalker, Diana Howlett, Dena and Jim Riley and the Inter Tribal Bison Co-operative for their help in preparing this article.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
The birth of Miracle, the first White Buffalo in Janesville, Wisconsin:
www.homestead.com/whitebuffalomiracle
Mildred Norman - Peace Pilgrim: www.peacepilgrim.net
Spirit Mountain Ranch: www.sacredwhitebuffalo.org
Arwyn Dreamwalker: www.morningstarlodge.net
The Rileys are setting up the World Peace White Buffalo Foundation Inc., a non-profit organisation to support their work. Meanwhile letters and donations (made out to 'Spirit Mountain Ranch') can be sent to:
Spirit Mountain Ranch, PO Box 31106, Flagstaff, Az. 86003. USA.
If you wish to email Spirit Mountain Ranch, title your email 'White Buffalo' and send to Editor@sacredhoop.org
We will forward them to Jim and Dena Riley.
Photos: © 2003 Arwyn Dreamwalker.


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Taken from Sacred Hoop Magazine Issue Number 40

© Copyright Sacred Hoop Magazine 2002



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With the birth of the eleventh white buffalo calf



11, the number of the Twin Flames, soon to be an entire herd.... :cheering:


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The birth of a white buffalo in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1994



I'll take a wild gander here. I'll bet someone that I know spiritually awakened in 1994. Also, someone I know even better awakened in 2002 (in July no less). :unsure:


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Arizona Spirit is the third white calf to emerge from the union of Willy Wonka and Miracle Moon.


The "third", yup. Amazing. I've been to Flagstaff many times in the past to ride the "natural water slide". Anyone remember the toothpaste commercial from 1970 that showed people going down this slide? (and flashing white teeth of course :D )
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