The Hopi And The "Cleansing Of The World" Written by Lawrence MF Sudbury - March 26th, 2011 - The eschatological theme is present not only in religions considered "traditional" but also in all those spiritual experiences, often hastily defined as "primitive", found in African or Native American tribes. Such systems, in contrast to the long-believed by many scientists, in fact, far from being simplistic, revealing, on the contrary, a very deep level of theoretical development and formal structure. Concerning more specifically the spirituality of American Indians, is now said that their religious and spiritual assets are as highly complex and highly varied, since each of the hundreds of tribes in the area of the northern hemisphere has developed a its separate system of religious beliefs and practices [1]. As a matter of extreme generalization, however, we can say that Native Americans worship a wide range of spirits, mostly related to forces of nature, he...