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I travelled to the campus of the State University of New York in the north-western New York town of Fredonia, not far from the city where I spent the last couple of years of my childhood, Erie, PA this past Saturday, Dec 8 2012.

I had been invited there by long-time collaborator and good friend, the Caney Circle beike, Grandmother Spider who has lived in that general area for years.

Here in this photo Spider and I stand with the student organizer of the campus event Michelle Sudyn and local photography enthusiast Brandon Perdomo who hosted me at his home, affectionally nicknamed "the Birdhouse", for a group ceremony, on the Sunday after the campus presentation .

My weekend began on Saturday with an evening offering on the true meaning of the Mayan Calendar 2012 prophetic message of hope and transition in one of the lecture classrooms of the college. It was welI-attended. I did my best to transmit the authentic message that has been shared with me by my Maya teachers from the highlands of Guatemala. It was an honor for me to reveal the prophetic secrets imbedded in ancient Maya mythology which I learned from Indigenous friends such as the great Kiche Maya elder Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, Grandmother Flordemayo, my collaborator and co-presenter in the U.S., Guatemalan Kiche Maya teacher, Antonio Aj Ik and my Guatemala elder the Kiche Maya holy man Don Filiberto, of the Wukub Noj Project.

It was important for me to share aspects of the December galactic alignment phenomenon that is marking this 2012 transition time. This galactic phenomenon represents part of the core of the Maya message stressing re-birth and re-emergence during this era in which the sun appears as if embryonically embedded in the large pregnant swelling at the center of the Milky Way galactic band. That galactic entity was known to the ancient Mayas as "Sac Be" or the "White Road". This particular element of my message was originally expounded back in the 1990's by my friend John Major Jenkins in his book "Mayan Cosmogenesis 2012".

The event was co-organized by Spider's friend in Fredonia, university staff member Jonathan Woolson (shown here eating during a post-presentation food sharing). Jonathan turned out to be an amazingly gifted, well-informed kindred spirit with whom I felt I immediately bonded. He proved to be a life-saver on several levels, offering me a ride to Fredonia from my Greyhound bus stop in Erie, a place to sleep Saturday night in his mother-in-law's home, a ride home all the way to Pittsburgh from Fredonia on Sunday night, and revealing himself by far one of the most awesome conversation partners that I have had in quite some time. He was great fun to be around.

It was also great fun to spend lots of time with Spider's daughter Katie Dolphin who has grown and blossomed into an intelligent and gifted young woman and who also enjoys the same goofy, quirky sense of humor that characterizes my own personality.

She has made great friends in Jonathan's daugthers Alegra and her little sister, who also share in the same sense of humor.

As mentioned earlier, on the following day, Sunday December 9 2012 I was invited to the local dwelling known as "The Bird-House" to share a traditional Caney Circle ceremony. The gathering was attended mostly by local university students and some members of a lucid dreaming group, as well as a few others.

I want to thank my dear spiritual sister Grandmother Spider for co-sponsoring my appearance in Fredonia this weekend. I also want to thank Michelle Sudyn and Jonathan Woolson for all the time and effort they put into making this event a success. I want to thank Brandon Perdomo for offering the Birdhouse for our ceremony on Sunday. I want to thank Katie Dolphin for the awesome company while sitting around at Spider's house. I want to thank all of the people who attended the talk on Saturday and the ceremony on Sunday. I especially want to thank Jonathan for driving me all the way back to my house in Verona, PA. I trully enjoyed taking him and event participants Brandon Perdomo and Rocio Gosende Suarez (who came along for the ride) up to Mount Washington in Pittsburgh before they took me home. We visited the breath-taking overlook site near the bronze "POINT OF VIEW" statue of Seneca Chief Guyasuta and young George Washington off Grandview Blvd. Brandon took some astonishing photos there.

Seneko Kakona (Many Blessings)

Taino Ti

Miguel

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Comment by Tenanche Semiata Rose Golden on December 17, 2012 at 10:32am: Takaji Brother Miguel,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom! It is so good to see a photo of Spider, whom I haven't seen in years! Which of of the three girls in the one photo is Katie Dolphin?

Seneko Kakona,

Tenanche

Comment by Medicine Woman on December 12, 2012 at 10:27am: Taino Ti,

Thank you so much for sharing these inspiring moments.

Seneko Kakoma,

Medicine Woman