My Fire Ceremony at the Pittsburgh Indian Center Pow Wow

My Friends

I was assisted in my traditional Maya Fire Blessing Ceremony by my Taino brother Miguel Sague this past weekend at the Council Of Three Rivers American Indian Center Pow Wow in the Pittsburgh area. My ceremony took place on Saturday Sept 26 on the fire site overlooking the main dance area of the Pow Wow grounds at the end of the festivities. We were joined by a group of participants who gathered around us after having enjoyed the celebrations under a beautiful late September afternoon sky.

Our American sister Carolyn took this video of the event.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1049268900#!/video/video.php?v=1416812579936&ref=mf

New Message From Teacher Antonio August 2010

My friends

This is Maya teacher Antonio Aj Ik speaking to you through the translating assistance of my spirit brother Miguel of the Taino people.

It has come to my attention that the public declarations of impending Doom continue unabated in spite of the messages that we the teachers, elders and wise men and women of my people have shared with the world. Recently my spirit brother showed me the commercials for a television program that was being announced on the North American network the History Channel called "Nostradamus 2012". My only commentary on this is; SHAME ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL.The programming excecutives and high-ranking personnel of this network are knowledgable enough to know that they are feeding useless mindless dissinformation to the public concerning the subject of our sacred calendar.

We the legitimate guardians of this ancient Maya tradition have already established over and over again that all of these associations that have been created by commercial interests such as the History Channel between the prophetic message of the Mayan Calendar and all of the fake non-Indigenous elements of the curent 2012 craze are totally false! These fake non-Indigenous non-Maya elements include all mention of Nostradamus, Atlantis, Mu, Extra-terrestials, Planet X, December 21 Raptures, Biblical Apocalypse and all the rest.

We the legitimate guardians of the ancient Maya tradition strongly encourage the people of the 21st century to stop listening to the loud jammering and noise and start paying attention to the quiet humble voice of simple Indigenous corn-farmers like myself. The elder Don Alejandro who is from my own K'iche people and speaks my language has been here in this country of the United States and even visited in the city where I now make my residence, Pittsburgh. He has stated the same thing that I am saying. There will be no Doom and Gloom but instead a sacred transition. We the inhabitants of this earth must make ready for that transition. He says the same things that I say. It is up to us as residents of this planet to go back to the old simple truths, the old simple example of the ancients, a respect for the Earth Mother and for each other.

I have met with one of the representatives of the world's Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers Council several months ago right here in Pittsburgh. Her name is Grandmother FlorDeMayo. She received my gift of a sacred codex chronicling the current 360-day tun that begins with the holy day FOUR IMOX ("4 Imix" in Yucatec Maya Language) and ends with the holy day TWELVE JUNAJPU ("12 Ahau" in Yucatec Maya Laguage). She gifted me a power necklace bearing a miniature skull that mirrors the energy of the crystal skulls that she works with. Grandmother FlorDeMayo is also a Maya teacher like mayself and like Don Alejandro. She is a respected elder and she shares our message of possibilities, opportunities and geat hope. What purpose would this powerful woman have in travelling all over the world taking the hopeful message of terrestial redemption to people of all races and nationalities if she were expecting some sort of inevitable global catastrophe.

As the History Channel prepares to air another round of insistent missinformation, I, with the assistance of my spirit brother Miguel am prearing another round of workshops and ceremonies aimed at countering the negativity raised by these false prophets of the media.

We look forward to seeing those of you who are interested in the truth. We are also interested in responding to the requests for advise, counsel and teachings which we are happy to receive.

COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER 2010 POW WOW

Maya teacher Antonio Aj Ik and Taino elder Miguel Sague will lead a sacred fire ceremony and temazcal/kansi sweatlodge purification rite at the end of the first day of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER POW WOW on Saturday September 25 after 5:00 PM

Join us at the Pow Wow during the afternoon and then stay afterward for this meaningful ceremonial event

COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER 2010 POW WOW

Maya Calendar Prophetic Message at Metaphysical Festival

Miguel Sobaoko Koromo Sague, the Taino Indigenous associate of K'iche Maya Calendar teacher Antonio Aj Ik of Guatemala participated in two major East-Coast U.S. metaphysical festivals in the month of July of 2010, providing workshops and conducting both traditional Taino and Maya ceremony in behalf of the Maya-Taino Prophecy Initiative and the Maya Tradition Circle.

The first of the functions was the thirtieth anniversary of the well-known STARWOOD FESTIVAL which was celebrated at the Wisteria Campground near Athens, Ohio this year.

The second festival was SUMMERFEST at the Brushwood Campground in Northwestern New York . At both of these events Miguel offered workshops, musical presentations and private readings, sharing the positive and optimistic message of the 2012 Prophecy from the perspective of his own Taino ancestral tradition and that of his Maya teacher, Don Antonio Aj Ik.

This effort allowed Miguel to reach an audience which had not yet heard the truth about the Mayan Calendar prophecy as it is being shared by the authentic Maya and Taino faith-keepers.

The presentations were well-received and opened up the possibility for future workshops at other metaphysical events around the United States.

The Maya Tradition Circle and the Maya-Taino Prohecy Initiative welcome invitations to events such as this one in which we can offer a glimpse at the genuine message of the Maya Calendar and related Indigenous shamanic culture which holds out a vital element of hope to a world in transition. We look forward to greater interaction between ourselves as Indigenous people and human beings in the world who seek this powerful wisdom that our ancestors bequeathed to the Earth.

Debate on Taino-Maya contacts heats up in 1999

As early as the year 1999 after much work at the Buchillones Taino archeological site in Cuba the Canadian archeologist David Pendergast publicly speculated that a curious object being held at the Royal Ontario Museum as part of a collection of items found by him years earlier in the Altun Ha Maya archeological site of Belize was in fact a Taino manatee-bone vomic spatula of the kind that ancient Taino shamans and chiefs used to induce vomiting in their purification rituals.

His comment sparked debate on the subject and doubts were raised by experts such as University of Manitoba archeologist Louis Adair, who objected that the Classic Era Maya period represented by the Altun Ha archeological site came and went before the rise of the Classic Taino period in Cuba and elsewhere several centuries later which is characterized by the use of vomic spatulas. Dr. Bill Keegan, curator of Caribbean archeology at Florida Museum of natural History tends to agree with Adair but cautions that pre-classic Taino ancestors in the Caribbean may already have been using primitive less sophisticated versions of the vomic spatulas earlier in their history before the full-classic Taino culture had developed. These early spatulas may then have found their way to a classic-era Maya site through cultural interaction.

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y99/ago99/16e12.htm

Now there is even more evidence arising which supports early contact between the Caribbean Tainos and the Mayas of the Ycatan peninsula.

Posted by Antonio Aj Ik's associate, Miguel Sague

Rick Santorum still affecting us all

Re: Rick Santorum touches us Tainos where we live

Taakji My Relatives
This is the first time that I am going to post a message concerning the disaster
that has been unleashed this Spring and early Summer on the waters of our
homeland by the world's MABOIA agents of greed.

In 2006 we here in Pennsylvania were busy attempting to vote out the state
representative Rick Santorum, a man who had used his considerable power in
Congress to further the interests of the kinds of beasts responsible for this
year's Gulf Environmental catastrophe. back then I attempted to bring into focus
the threat posed to our ancestral homeland waters via the off-shore drilling
policies espoused by legislators such as Santorum, and supported by the Bush
administration then in power. The two posts to which I have alluded here in this
response message are the ones I first posted back then in 2006. They were sent
out to our subscribers under the title "Rick Santorum touches us Tainos where we
live".

My information and documentation was based on facts provided to the Caney Circle
by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, an organization based out of Washington DC
which dedicates itself to monitoring the activities of legislators who are a
threat to the environment and wildlife.

The fact is that we here in Pennsylvania did vote Santorum and many of his ilk
out of office that year but in a way we were already too late to avoid this
year's disaster. Their nefarious work had already been accomplished, and they
had laid the groundwork of lax oversight policies and generous freedom of action
which the big oil companies needed to run roughshod over the ecology of our
sacred waters.

I was a bit disappointed at the lack of response that I received back in 2006
from my fellow Tainos, especially those living in Pennsylvania to my posted
messages concerning the threat posed to our homeland waters by the actions of
legislators such as Santorum.

Later on I was even more disappointed at the resistance from some quarters in
the Taino community to our support of presidential candidate Barak Obama who I
feel represented our best hope at a realistic response to the ecological threats
which Big Oil poses to the Gulf and the Caribbean. This is an interesting topic
to approach because there are some now who seem intent on laying the present
Gulf ecological fiasco at the doorstep of the present sitting president.

I was just as dismayed as anyone else when I heard Mr. Obama's pronouncements
late in his campaign in which he suddenly supported some limited offshore
drilling in the gulf off the cost of Florida after having opposed it
persistently for a long time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr9o1sTuhg8. I was
even more disappointed later on after he was elected president and lifted the
ban on expanding off-shore drilling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA7RAfHN-wo
It is true that this kind of flip-flopping is unacceptable and he must be held
accountable for it. And it is also true that the sitting president should take
responsibility for an environmental disaster such as the one that is unfolding
in the Gulf right now simply because the "buck" needs to stop someplace. However
in judging his connection or the connection of his administration to this
calamitous event of April 26 it must be admitted that he is ultimately one of
those who has for a very long time advocated for the very restrictions and
regulations which could have reined in the Big Oil greed-mongers that the
Republicans and conservatives love so much, and was long the target of
right-wing and Republican attacks for his environmental stance. It is simply NOT
FAIR to now say that Obama is at fault for the BP fiasco in the Gulf.

My relatives, whether you are Tano or not, this is a crucial issue in all of our
lives and it is important to approach it with our eyes wide open and not clouded
by a lot of conspiracy theory nonsense. We must recognize who are the real good
guys and who are the real bad guys in this issue. As Indigenous people or people
who support Indigenous issues, we must all become fully educated on the facts
surrounding this disaster, especially the tangled web of regulation-avoidance
tactics which BP used and which was supported by the conservative minions who
think like former senator Rick Santorum.

The Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle officially supports all efforts by
environmental groups to force the Obama administration to take appropriate steps
not only to force BP and its partners to assume full responsibility for the
efforts to correct the damage done to the Gulf but also to realistically
approach the important issue of free-wheeling energy companies that feel they
can do whatever they want to our Earth Mother. These companies have enjoyed too
many freedoms for too long under previous administration and this present one is
by all reasonable interpretation the one that provides us the best chance at
righting those past wrongs.

Taino Ti
Miguel Sobaoko Koromo Sague

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Posted in 2006
--- In sobaokokoromo2@yahoogroups.com, sobaokokoromo1@... wrote:
>
> Tau again my relatives
> It is important for us who are concerned with the welfare of the
Caribbean homeland to be aware that this Pennsylvania Republican representative
voted against the interest of the Caribbean environment this past June. Rick
Santorum took part in a vote of the Senate that was considering an ammendment
for the inventorying of offshore oil reserves on the Florida coast. The
ammendment was introduced by Republican Florida senator Mel Martinez among
others. This ammendment would have protected this infinitely fragile and already
endangered tropical ecosystem from harmful exploratory seismic oil and gas
surveys. Santorum's vote against the ammendment helped defeat it and as a result
of that years of former legislation in favor of protecting this region was
seriously erroded.
> Please review the graphic that I have attached here outlining the Senate
vote.
> Taino Ti
> Sobaoko Koromo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel A Sague Jr
> To: sobaokokoromo2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:16:32 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: [sobaokokoromo2] Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is an enemy of
Ata Bey
>
>
> Tau my relatives
> As part of the environmental concern to which I referred in my last post I
wish to ask you (especially those of you who are Pennsylvania residents) to
become acquainted with the dismal environmental record of Pennsylvania's most
FAR-RIGHT congressional representative, Rick Santorum. If you are a Pennsylvania
resident I urge you to click the link in this letter that allows you to send
your comment to Mr. Santorum.
> Taino Ti
> Sobaoko Koromo

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