The 13 Moon Walk 4 Peace team spent some time with a couple of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, Agnes Baker-Pilgrim and Rita Long-Visitor Holy Dance, and Jyoti founder of the Center for Sacred Studies.
The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers was brought together by vision and prophecies, and through the strength of relations grounded in Spirit. It was brought together by sacred relations and it will be sustained through relations. We understand that no single people can claim ownership to a prophecy. Prophecies, by their very nature are seeded in numerous places and eras and the players come to recognize each other over time. In early 2002, Jyoti, Ann and Jyoti’s children, Scott and Dayna, were spiritually guided to seek initiations with Bernadette Rebienot in Gabon. At this meeting we recognized a common call to bring the grandmothers together. Although the Grandmothers existed in the astral, we acknowledge this meeting in Gabon as the first physical manifestation of the Council.
It was after this significant encounter that Bernadette encouraged us to follow through and
gather up the grandmothers. In the Fall of 2003 we sent out an invitation to sixteen grandmothers. Thirteen answered the call to convene at the Global Women’s’ Gathering in 2004. At this historical meeting many grandmothers shared their visions and prophecies, which guided them to say “yes.” Grandmother Rita Blumenstein, a 75-year-old Yup’ik traditional healer, was guided by her great grandmother. In 1942, when she was 9 years old her great grandmother gave her 13 stones and 13 eagle plumes, told her she would be a part of a Council of thirteen and to save these precious relics for that time. At their first gathering in 2004, the day after declaring themselves as an alliance, Grandmother Rita passed these 13 stones and feathers to the members of the newly formed alliance.
