The Rainbow Animals by Anat Tour

There will come a time when the Earth grows sick and when it does a tribe will gather from all the cultures of the World who believe in deeds and not words. They will work to heal it…they will be known as the “Warriors of the Rainbow.”

The book cover you see in the image above is also a full length cartoon!  My friend, Anat Tour, is an amazing artist and story teller who has just completed the creation of her book into a 30 minute long animated film.  She wrote, illustrated, animated and sings in her cartoon and I am overjoyed to tell you about it!

Anat wrote and illustrated her original story, “The Rainbow Animals”, back in the 1990′s.  She was living in Canada at the time the inspiration came to her, and I recall her telling me that it took her about three months to complete all the pages of illustrations.  I met Anat in the late 90′s when she moved in next door to Shabtai and I in La Mesa, California. From the very first day I met Anatie, I could tell she was someone very unusual and special.  But it wasn’t until we became more acquainted that I discovered how very unique & GIFTED she is!

The very first time that Anat read her story of The Rainbow Animals to me–from my perspective as a Mystic and Bible scholar–I had the inkling that it resounded with prophecy.  At first it was just a gut-feeling, until I did some digging and discovered a few amazing things, not only in the Bible but also in Native American Prophecy.

Now mind you, Anat is not religious but she is spiritual and a very open-minded, God-gifted human.  She is an artist, a poet, a musician, an high school advanced mathematics teacher, a dancer, a former high-fashion model, the mother of four children, and an all around CREATIVE EXPLOSION!  So when I told her that I believed her story was prophetic, she didn’t argue.  When I asked her how she got the idea for the story she said that ‘it just came to her one day‘.  Typical artist….tapping into the cosmic consciousness of the universe.

Perhaps someday I will write a paper on the biblical prophetic connections that I discovered in relation to The Rainbow Animals but for today, please read here below the Hopi prophecy regarding The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors.  Then watch the video below of my grandson Jonah as he paints and views the beginning of Anat’s cartoon: The Rainbow Animals.

Legend of Rainbow Warriors

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Since the early 1970s, a legend of Rainbow Warriors inspired some environmentalists in the United States with a belief that their movement is the fulfillment of a Native American prophecy. Whether the prophecy originated from a Native American person may be known by only the author who first published the account, but the modern source of the legend is a 1962 book titled Warriors of the Rainbow by William Willoya and Vinson Brown from Naturegraph Publishers. Brown, who is attributed with research supporting chapters on Hopi prophecies, is the founder and owner of Naturegraph Publishers.

A Prentice Hall book, The Greenpeace Story, traces the popular spread of a legend of a Hopi prophecy told among environmentally minded nomads through Greenpeace plankholder Bob Hunter, who got a copy of the Warriors of the Rainbow in 1969. Hunter, who died May 5, 2005 was the author of many of the myths told among Greenpeace supporters, and the first president of Greenpeace. The Economist, in Hunter’s obituary, has him reportedly receiving from a wandering dulcimer maker in 1969 a copy of the book in which the legend of a Hopi prophecy was first published. By Hunter’s account, he first read the book in 1971 during a voyage on rough seas of the North Pacific where the name Greenpeace was also conceived. Hunter was reportedly 1/32 Kwakiutl Indian, but intensely proud of that part of his heritage. Hunter is attributed with giving Greenpeace its bent toward mischievous protest.

Lelanie Fuller Stone attributes a very similar prophecy to a Cree woman. Stone, who says she is a non-enrolled person of Cherokee descent, reports a Cree woman told her:

There will come a time when the Earth grows sick and when it does a tribe will gather from all the cultures of the World who believe in deeds and not words. They will work to heal it…they will be known as the “Warriors of the Rainbow.”

In numerous retellings of Stone’s account, the Cree woman was her grandmother, but Stone does not make such an assertion.[9] Folklore shared among attendees at Rainbow gatherings has held since the earliest years of those gatherings that they are fulfillments of a Native American prophecy, similar in verse to that told both by the Naturegraph book and by Stone. The legend also inspired the name of two of Greenpeace’s ships, named Rainbow Warrior and used in environmental-protection protests by Greenpeace.

In 1987, the legend of the Warriors of the Rainbow inspired an achievement-based award system within the New Zealand-based Spirit of the Sword Youth Initiative.

The following quotation is often attributed to Chief Seattle, who lived from 1780 to 1866: “When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.”  Seattle was of a leader of Washington State’s Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes. However, the precise origin of this quotation, like many of Seattle’s supposed sayings, is subject to dispute.