Biography 10: Animal Prophesies

THE ELEPHANT

Amongst Africans the elephant is known by a name which means the same thing no matter which language one happens to speak; the Zulus call this great beast INDLOVU, while the Tsonga and Shangane people call it NJOVU and the Venda know it as NDOU, and all these ancient words mean the same thing…THE FORCEFUL ONE. Our people used to believe that elephants were not merely animals but were rather supernatural beings or gods and that ivory as well as the bones of the elephant were the purest substances known. Out of ivory our people used to carve their holiest images.. busts of gods and goddesses as well as those of god-kings and queens, and it is still believed even now that ornaments made of ivory possess great magical powers and they enable the possessor of them to enjoy heavenly protection at all times. Kings and chieftains used to wear such ornaments especially in times of war so as to be protected against assassins and poisons. There were those amongst our people who believed that an elephant was a reincarnation of a dead god who had been killed by other gods in heaven, and in the years before the Second World War there roamed, in a part of western TANGANYIKA a large elephant that the tribes people knew by the strange name of “ISHE” which is the African corruption of the Islamic name for JESUS which is ISSA. One day a gang of poachers was seen trailing this great beast and a force of warriors went for the poachers and attached them, to protect the beast they believed was sacred, and in the ensuing skirmish all the poachers and four of the warriors were killed…ISHE lived to die of old age.

So deep is the reverence in which the elephant is held in some parts of Africa that for example if a member of the MAASAI people if Kenya finds a placenta of an elephant in the bush he immediately erects a wooden enclosure with four entrances around it to protect it. An elephant’s placenta is held to be an extremely sacred object, which brings great good luck to the finder. It is said that when the end of the world comes the last elephant in Africa will engage the last rhinoceros in mortal combat and both animals would die, pleading with god to use their blood to create new animals once more. Out of their blood God would create new animals and out of their skulls and jaws and leg bones a new and much more beautiful world.

THE LION

Amongst the peoples of Europe the Lion was believed to be the King of Beasts but in Africa this was not so because the people there knew animals which were many times more powerful and fearsome than the lion, animals such as the hippo, the elephant and the rhinoceros for example. However Africans revered the lion as the JUDGE of animals, a judge who weeded out weak antelopes by eating them and mad hyena’s by killing them. When Africans use proverbs to say that justice will always overtake the wrongdoer they will use this one for instance: – “The mad hyena who causes other animals to weep will feel the heavy paw of the Heavenly lion fall upon him”. Although most tribes in Africa revered and admired the lion there were a few which viewed this noble beast as the very personification of evil and these were tribes, which kept large herds of cattle – the favourite food of lions. The lion is called “the beast of a thousand omens” by African shamans and healers; if a man travelling through the bush sees a lion crossing his path from left to right it is regarded as an omen that the man will acquire wealth at his journey’s end, and if he comes across mating lions it is held to mean that he will marry a princess or a wealthy woman. Bad is the omen when a man comes across a lion, which then chases him up a tree… this is said to mean that the man will get into trouble with the tribal king. Zulu people call the lion “IBHUBESI” which means “the deciding ruler” or judge while other Zulu-speakers call this beast “INGONYAMA” or “INGWENYAMA” and this name is born of the belief that these people hold, namely, that the lion is two animals in one, a meat-eating beast, INGO or INGWE and a grass-eating beast which is NYAMA or meat. What makes them think this about the lion? The answer is because of the appearance of the animal, which has a tufted tail like that of a bull at the back and the head, eyes and teeth of a meat-eating beast in front. It is this strange appearance that made African to believe that a lion unites the world of flesh-eating beasts with that of grass-eating animals. The dried dung of a lion as well as the hairball regurgitated by a lion are two of the most powerful charms in African sorcery…lion-dung is used to dominate a tyrannical superior and the hairball is used as a luck-bringer in gambling and in affairs of the heart. Like all cats and other catlike animals the living lion is believed by Africans to possess powers to protect the Earth from demonic entities … it is said that certain kinds of vicious extraterrestrial beings are mortally afraid of lions and that once lions are killed off in certain parts of Africa those parts become overrun by these creatures. African kings used to sleep on lion skins to protect themselves from MANTINDANE (Grey Aliens).

THE BUFFALO

Aricans call the Cape Buffalo by an extremely interesting name, a name, which shows the depth of knowledge that, they possessed regarding this animal. The Zulu-speakers call this animal INYATHI while the Tswana and Sotho-speakers call it NARI and in both Zulu and Tswana the word has to do with FERTILITY and NUTRITION. There was once a time long ago when buffaloes in their thousands and their cousins the wildebeests in their tens of thousands criss-crossed the Southern African landscape in endless migration exactly as they still do in the Masai-Mara plains of Kenya and Africans observed in those long-gone years how the dung of these huge animals brought fertility to the land, and they named the Buffalo by the name it still carries to this day; – “THE ONE WHO FERTILIZES THE LAND AND GIVES US GOOD EATING”. The Zulu word for Buffalo, INYATHI, comes from the verb NYATHA or NATA which means to eat or to ingest something, be it solid food or water, and there is a very colourful tribe in South Africa, an offshoot of the Zulus, a tribe whose members were, and still are, employed in large numbers in the cleaning and waste-disposal establishment of South Africa mines and municipalities who have transferred the word “INYATHI” or “INYATSI” from the buffalo to human waste, and when members of this tribe use long rakes to spread and dry human waste in city sewerage works they call it “UKUGWATA INYATSI” that is, “Stabbing the Buffalo”. It is because human waste fertilizes the land and is often used as an organic fertilizer that the Bacas call it by the name by which their forebears called the now long-vanished buffalo. Zulus and people of other tribes used to hunt buffaloes for their meat in times of famine, and when the meat was shared out the person whom the hunters did not like was given the extremely hard, muscular and totally uncookable lower legs and hooves of the beast. Even today, when people come together and conspire to get another person into trouble Zulus say; – “They tied a buffalo’s lower legs in a bundle for him”.

The fat of a buffalo, its dried eyes, testicles and penis are much valued by African shamans, and tough township gamblers will sometimes put their ill-gotten winnings in the tanned scrotums of Cape buffaloes, it being the belief that he scrotum of a buffalo attracts money and prevents it from departing too quickly. Dreams about buffaloes; – It is said that if you are in trouble and you dream of a buffalo standing and facing you and chewing grass it means that you will meet a powerful friend who will help you out of trouble. The worst dream that one can dream about a buffalo is that of being chased by one … which means that you will be attacked and defeated by a very powerful enemy. Zulus have a saying; – “He who has dreamt of an angry buffalo lost wake up and run away”.

Some years ago a man I knew, who ran a fleet of taxis in Soweto, was engaged in a lawsuit against another man and was about to win it when he twice had a dream of being chased up a tree by a very big buffalo, and he lost the case when his enemy acquired the services of a powerful advocate who ran rings around his attorneys.

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11 Comments so far

  1. Ralph Lundgren on May 26th, 2008

    I think that you do this for the money. You dont really care about anybody or anything. You are not less nor more than the Roman Catholic Pontiff or a Sri Sathya Sai Baba or a Jose Luis de Jesus Medina. Youre all making profits out of your religious businesses.

  2. Jason on June 27th, 2008

    This is a wise man and you would do well to listen to him. If you have doubts ask the creator he will tell you the truth always. oh mr. narrow minded idiot you can’t talk to god. Then maybe you should shut your mouth. besides this man is not rich in money and does healings for free very often. good man good info. Hey ralph lundgren maybe you should not make snap judgements when you do not know. People like you should be cleansed from the gene pool !!!!!!!!!!!!! What a dickhead .grow up dummy !!!!!!!!!1

  3. Jason on August 17th, 2008

    I love credo mutwa he has overcome tremendous difficulties that would make lesser men cower and weep. But no he continues the path of a warrior and a true human being. An attack on his village left him stabbed dozens of times and his wife gang raped and still he did not falter. His son was killed as well. and his wife died as a result of the dark forces that plague men and woman who dare to defy evil in its many forms. Nearly everyone this man has loved has been raped or murdered and he still manages to hold hope and help his fellow human beings. This is courage on a level that few ever reach in their life. I deeply love this shinning example of the triumph of the human spirit. Grandfather credo you are so loved and respected by people who’s lives you have touched. I myself will never turn my back on god and his many miracles such as yourself. The inspiration and influence you have had on my life gives me the courage to face anything,anyone,any situation like a warrior. Because of your example I fear nothing and walk as a free man. Thank you for forging a path that few dare to tread. If I walk this path. It is because you shone a light for me to follow !!!!!! Jason ” Rainbow warrior “

  4. Jason on August 17th, 2008

    Their is a legend of a people that will rise up in the times ahead of us. a people who will conquer immpossible odds against them. and the message they bring is a message founded in love. They will show us the way. The way we have forgotten. because they will share the sacred knowledge. This tribe is now upon us and creating a new reality. Weaving a new and beautiful dream that all can be apart of. These are the warriors of the rainbow. They carry not weapons of war. But a wisdom that can stand against anything. Kindness,compassion and love will be all that they are armed with. This is the destiny of all on this planet. To live as one. For we are one. We are you. and you are we. God is within all. Wait not for a savior. for the savior lies within you. You. all of you. that read this. you are the “warriors of the rainbow”

  5. tiny on October 5th, 2008

    I do not know where does this ralph comes from,may be he is one of the aliens that are on this earth to destroy us.Baba Mutwa to me you are a great man.when I was lost,trying to know who I was,i red your Indaba my children.This book gave me a new foundation of where we are comming from.it made sense to me because it was explaining many things that our so called learned parent could not explain.It kills me when people are badmouthing our culture,as premitive and barbaric.We were created by our God like that.It will take us some time for us to understand our core being.Wise people like you Baba are the ones who bring us light and insite,before we lose our souls.Today i wake up wanting to search for your,wisdom in an difficult time in my life.My ancestors are calling for my duities as a TWASA.This makes me very confused,because there is now one who can give me more insight on this issue.But when I look at your atices and redings,i now can understand the meaning of this,i know i must wait for more messeges from my ancestors.I admere you so much.I wish they media can make more television documentaries about your work.I live in the Eastern Cape,and I once had an opportunity as a child to see you when you were in Shamwari Game Reserve.

  6. kris on February 24th, 2009

    I know,very deeply in my soul,that the wild animals ,the lions,the cheetah,the eagles-they are calling us-[those who can hear it,those born knowing it]-to stand up now and be the warriors and protectors of this most sacred thing- nature/life .thank you Baba Mutwa for holding the energy and guiding us .

  7. Cyndi on July 26th, 2009

    “The mad hyena who causes other animals to weep will feel the heavy paw of the Heavenly lion fall upon him” What a beautiful metaphor for The Truth of the Lion of Judah falling upon the filth and insanity of reptilian agenda . . .His Holy “heavy paw” will tear them to pieces. The “reptilians” should be afraid . . .very afraid.

  8. sonofthedestroyer on August 15th, 2009

    Reptilians are supposedly all gone. According to Peggy Kanes Reversespeaking research. Apparently it is their computer programs that still keep us locked in this mess.

  9. Jozi on September 25th, 2009

    Credo, Thank you for the post of the Lion, it inspired me and gave me hope for the future.

    Like all cats and other catlike animals the living lion is believed by Africans to possess powers to protect the Earth from demonic entities … it is said that certain kinds of vicious extraterrestrial beings are mortally afraid of lions and that once lions are killed off in certain parts of Africa those parts become overrun by these creatures. African kings used to sleep on lion skins to protect themselves from MANTINDANE (Grey Aliens).

  10. slendermongoose on October 24th, 2009

    The animals are speaking.The tree’s are talking.They are saying that it is time.It is time to cast off the things that have bound us..it is time for those chosen to lead,to heal,to help, to stand up now and show the way of the light-we the warriors.It is time to take up the spears and armour of spirit truth and move forward.We will win.And the animals help us with thier spirit strength.

  11. Mother Sekhmet on March 2nd, 2010

    We are the gods/goddesses we have been waiting for. And the harvesting of those who would be in full responsibility of themselves in service to humankind are the (self)chosen ones for this next exciting period in Earth's history. Credo's wisdom and service will finally get to be given the acknowledgement and accolades he deserves when the New Earth officially starts. As will the many others who have not been able to come forward in full service due to continued threats from the Dark. The Dark have attempted to upstep their reign of terror recently(ie broadcasting the frequency of fear with greater potency) . Lundgren's comments are typical of those who have fallen prey to that. But not for much longer as the great cleansing is about to begin. And when those who have a contract return, all sentient life will begin to know freedom at last! I'm excited as we will finally be a majority instead of a minority and we can begin to work toward Unity Consciousness and true sista/brotherhood. I long for the day when the beautiful felines and other animals are free from the fear and torture of hunting, zoo/circus cages and lab torture.

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