Onamonalonton

• one of 24 counselors
• spiritual deliverer of red man; lived 65,000 years ago; brought universal peace

45:4.53. Ona­mo­na­lon­ton, a far-dis­tant leader of the red man and the one who di­rected this race from the wor­ship of many gods to the ven­er­a­tion of “The Great Spirit.”

• Blackfoot Indians descendants of
• spiritual deliverer of red man; lived 65,000 years ago; brought universal peace

64:6.7Be­cause of this great ret­ro­gres­sion the red men seemed doomed when, about sixty-five thou­sand years ago, Ona­mo­na­lon­ton ap­peared as their leader and spir­i­tual de­liv­erer. He brought tem­po­rary peace among the Amer­i­can red men and re­vived their wor­ship of the “Great Spirit.” Ona­mo­na­lon­ton lived to be ninety-six years of age and main­tained his head­quar­ters among the great red­wood trees of Cal­i­for­nia. Many of his later de­scen­dants have come down to mod­ern times among the Black­foot In­di­ans.

64:6.8As time passed, the teach­ings of Ona­mo­na­lon­ton be­came hazy tra­di­tions. In­ternecine wars were re­sumed, and never af­ter the days of this great teacher did an­other leader suc­ceed in bring­ing uni­ver­sal peace among them. In­creas­ingly the more in­tel­li­gent strains per­ished in these tribal strug­gles; oth­er­wise a great civ­i­liza­tion would have been built upon the North Amer­i­can con­ti­nent by these able and in­tel­li­gent red men.

• taught unanimous rule of council of seven

70:5.4Some tribes had fe­male coun­cils, and from time to time many tribes had women rulers. Cer­tain tribes of the red man pre­served the teach­ing of Ona­mo­na­lon­ton in fol­low­ing the unan­i­mous rule of the “coun­cil of seven.”

• center in California is oldest Amerindian culture

79:5.8The red and the yel­low races are the only hu­man stocks that ever achieved a high de­gree of civ­i­liza­tion apart from the in­flu­ences of the And­ites. The old­est Amerindian cul­ture was the Ona­mo­na­lon­ton cen­ter in Cal­i­for­nia, but this had long since van­ished by 35,000 B.C. In Mex­ico, Cen­tral Amer­ica, and in the moun­tains of South Amer­ica the later and more en­dur­ing civ­i­liza­tions were founded by a race pre­dom­i­nantly red but con­tain­ing a con­sid­er­able ad­mix­ture of the yel­low, or­ange, and blue.

• Amerinds looked for return of

92:5.6Many races have con­ceived of their lead­ers as be­ing born of vir­gins; their ca­reers are lib­er­ally sprin­kled with mirac­u­lous episodes, and their re­turn is al­ways ex­pected by their re­spec­tive groups. In cen­tral Asia the tribes­men still look for the re­turn of Genghis Khan; in Ti­bet, China, and In­dia it is Bud­dha; in Is­lam it is Mo­hammed; among the Amerinds it was Hes­unanin Ona­mo­na­lon­ton; with the He­brews it was, in gen­eral, Adam’s re­turn as a ma­te­rial ruler. In Baby­lon the god Mar­duk was a per­pet­u­a­tion of the Adam leg­end, the son-of-God idea, the con­nect­ing link be­tween man and God. Fol­low­ing the ap­pear­ance of Adam on earth, so-called sons of God were com­mon among the world races.