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Hayewatha Belt
Category: 2 Price: $1,200.00 CAD
Hayewatha Belt
or Five Nations Territorial Belt
A broad dark belt of wampum of thirty-eight rows, having a white heart in the centre, on either side of which are two white squares all connected with the heart by white rows of beads shall be the emblem of the Unity of the Five Nations.
The first of the squares on the left represents the Mohawk Nation and its territory, the second square on the left and the one near the heart, represents the Oneida Nation and its territory, the white heart in the middle represents the Onondaga Nation and its territory, and it also means that the heart of the Five Nations is single in its loyalty to the Great Peace. That the Great Peace is lodged in the heart, meaning with the Onondaga Confederate Lords, and that the Council Fire is there for the Five Nations and further, it means that the authority is given to advance the cause of peace, whereby hostile nations out of the Confederacy shall cease warfare. The white square to the fight of the heart represents the Cayuga Nation and its territory, and the fourth and last white square, represents the Seneca Nation and its territory.
White shall here symbolize that no evil or jealous thoughts shall creep into the minds of the Lords while in Council under the Great Peace, White, the emblem of peace, love, charity and equity surrounds and guards the Five Nations.
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