Lekhikàn · the first book

Uwatuwakàn Lekhikàn

the book of the knowing

The Faith of Mikumwakàn

The statement

The faith of Mikumwakàn lives inside one statement. Every teaching, rite, and law below unfolds from it.

Kilùna, mayày ta kulhatènamihëna òk wanishi. Lapi òk lapi, nutëmwakàn d' Xìnkwi Uwatuwakàn. Milinèn manitu Isla, Pèthakhòn, òk Xàskwim, Këkhitaholtëwakàn, Tuhwepia Kikehwakàn, òk Nuhàm Uwatuwakàn. Xkwithakamìka: kweti, pìlët, nishkàhëna. Wanishi.

We are beyond happy and grateful for the constant guidance and protection of the infinite intelligence and the gift of creating peace, power, and prosperity through unconditional love, cellular healing, and ancestral wisdom in service of creating a world of unity, integrity, and perfect harmony.

Read as a whole, the statement holds the faith's full shape: one source (the Great Knowing), three paths (love, healing, ancestral wisdom), three fruits (peace, power, prosperity), and one aim (a world of unity, integrity, and perfect harmony).

What we hold sacred

Xìnkwi Uwatuwakàn, the Great Knowing. The infinite intelligence that reads between all things and holds them in relationship. It is not distant from creation; it moves through every seed, star, and cell. Its guidance and protection are constant, lapi òk lapi, again and again.

Gahès, the Mother. Creation comes through the womb. The earth that births every harvest, the moon that keeps the womb's rhythm, and the women who carry life are honored as the living face of the Mother. This is why the faith is matriarchal: leadership follows the source of life.

The cosmos. Aquechque the sun, Kishux the moon, the stars, and the planets are the great clock and teacher. Their cycles show the order every life is invited to align with. To watch the sky is to read the instructions of the Great Knowing.

The land. Xkwithakamìka, the earth, is a relative, not property. The soil feeds us, the water cleans us, and the seed teaches us that everything planted with intention grows.

The ancestors. The grandmothers and grandfathers live on in the knowing they carry forward, Nuhàm Uwatuwakàn. They are consulted, remembered, and honored at every station of the year.

The body. Each body is a living temple of trillions of cells, each one carrying the same order found in the stars. Caring for the body is a sacred act.

The creation story

This is the first telling, drawn from the fragments the church holds and offered to the founder to reshape through prayer and vision. It is spoken in the present, because creation is not an event that ends; creation is happening now.

The fertile dark. Before anything carries a name, there is Samp-oo-somow, the fertile dark. Within it the Great Knowing is present, reading between what is not yet formed, as the seed holds the whole tree within itself.

The Mother. From the Great Knowing comes Gahès, the Mother, and the dark becomes a womb. With each breath she draws the cycle every womb keeps: gathering, ripening, releasing, renewing.

Sun and moon. From her light the Mother sets Aquechque, the sun, to warm the land and measure the year. From her rhythm she sets Kishux, the moon, to govern water, seed, and womb. She places the stars and the wandering planets as the living record of her order, so her children always read their way home.

The earth and the seed. From her body the Mother shapes the earth. From her heart she gives the first seed, and from the seed rise corn, beans, and every green thing. The land feeds, and the land teaches: what is planted with intention grows.

The people. The people wake upon the land, look up, and understand. They live in kweti, oneness, with the earth, the cosmos, and each other. They move with the moons and the stations of the sun, and in that movement they dance together, nishkàhëna. That dance is perfect harmony.

The forgetting. Whenever people stop looking up and stop listening to the land, they enter the great forgetting, the sleep of unconsciousness. They live by measures foreign to the Mother's order, severed from the instruction of the sky and the teaching of the soil. The body weakens, the land tires, and the people forget that they are one.

The keepers. The grandmothers never forget. Generation upon generation, they carry the knowing in songs, seeds, medicines, and stories, holding it ready for the people's return.

The remembering. Mikumwakàn, whose name means remembrance, is the remembering. To awaken is to look up, to plant, to love without measure, to heal the body to the cell, and to receive the knowing of the grandmothers. As the people remember, the world returns to unity, integrity, and the dance of perfect harmony.

The three foundations

The faith stands on three foundations, like the three stones that hold a cooking fire. Remove one and the fire falls.

Cosmology: the order above. The sun, moon, and planets reveal the order of creation. Members align their lives with that order through the Kishux Calendar: resting in the dark moon, building as the light grows, gathering at the full moon, and releasing as it wanes. Every planetary shift is acknowledged, because nothing in the sky moves without meaning for life below.

Suv'eranty: the order within. Suv'eranty begins inside a person. It is the right and the responsibility to govern oneself in alignment with universal law: to think freely, to choose consciously, and to answer for one's own actions. It extends to the community as self-governance, guided by the Nuhàm Circle and held together by integrity rather than force. A suv'eran person needs no one to rule them, because they rule themselves well.

Agriculture: the order below. The land is where the faith becomes real. Members plant, tend, and harvest with the moons, keep seeds from season to season, and share the harvest at Naxa Kishku. Working the soil teaches patience, reciprocity, and the law of the seed: what is planted with intention grows.

The three foundations meet in every member: the sky they read, the self they govern, and the soil they tend.

The three paths and the three fruits

The faith walks three paths, and each path bears fruit. Together the fruits create a world of unity, integrity, and perfect harmony.

Path	Moabe	What it asks	Fruit	Moabe
Unconditional love	Këkhitaholtëwakàn	Love without measure, flowing both ways, offered to every person, creature, and the land	Peace	Isla
Cellular healing	Tuhwepia Kikehwakàn	Restoring the body to its natural order through food from the land, water, breath, rest, sweat, and herbs	Power	Pèthakhòn
Ancestral wisdom	Nuhàm Uwatuwakàn	Receiving, living, and passing on the knowing of the grandmothers and grandfathers	Prosperity	Xàskwim

Love is the root. Peace, power, and prosperity come through unconditional love. Këkhitaholtëwakàn is not a fourth fruit beside the three; it is the root from which all three grow, and each path is a way of love. Every moon carries a peak of love, the moon in harmony with the sun, the source of all its light, as the sun pours its light into the moon and the moon returns it to the earth.

Love bears peace. Love that flows both ways leaves no room for enmity. Where aholtëwakàn moves freely, Isla follows.

Healing bears power. A body restored to its natural order carries the strength of the thunder. Pèthakhòn is the energy of a person whose cells are aligned with creation.

Wisdom bears prosperity. The ancestors hold the knowing of how to plant, store, share, and live in plenty without taking from the future. Xàskwim, the corn, grows from their knowing.

The three fruits bear harmony. When peace, power, and prosperity live together in one people, the people return to nishkàhëna: they dance together again. Every moon, Naxa Kishku gathers the three fruits and offers them back to the circle.

Cellular healing in this faith honors the body as sacred and works alongside, never against, the care of trained healers and physicians.

The universal laws

The faith lives by seven universal laws. They are not rules invented by people; they are the order the Great Knowing writes into the sky, the soil, and the cell, which anyone can observe and test with their own life.

Law	Moabe	The teaching	Lived as
Oneness	Kweti	All things come from the Great Knowing and remain connected to it and to each other	Speaking kilùna, "we, including you," and treating no one as outside the circle
The Source	Gahès	Life comes through the womb; creation flows from the feminine source	Honoring women, the moon's cycle, and the earth as Mother; leadership by the grandmothers
Correspondence	Aquechque òk Kishux	What moves in the sky is mirrored in the soil and in the body	Reading the calendar as instructions for planting, healing, and living
Rhythm	Kishux	Everything moves in cycles: gathering, ripening, releasing, renewing	Resting in the dark moon, building in the waxing light, gathering at the full, releasing as it wanes
The Seed	Xàskwim	What is planted with intention grows, in its season and after its kind	Setting intentions at each new moon and each peak day; planting only what one wishes to harvest
Reciprocity	Aholtëwakàn	What is given returns; love and care flow both ways or they stop flowing	Giving back to the land and the circle in every waning moon and every harvest
Wholeness	Pìlët	What is whole and undivided endures; what is divided falls	Living with integrity, keeping one's word, and cleansing body and spirit before ceremony

The name of each law grows from words already in Moabe. As the language grows, the laws may receive names of their own.

The matriarchal order

The grandmothers lead because life flows through the Mother, and because the grandmothers keep the knowing alive through every forgetting. This order follows the Law of the Source.

Among the Lenape, whose words give Moabe its root, kinship flows through the mother's line, and clan mothers hold true authority. The faith walks in that same way.

The Nuhàm Circle. The Circle of Grandmothers is the highest council of the faith. It names the moons at each Naxa Kishku, approves the anointing of facilitators, guards the teachings, and resolves conflict. The First Grandmother leads the Circle.

The facilitators. Facilitators, women and men alike, serve the people under the Circle's guidance. They lead ceremony, teach, and care for members, and they answer to the Circle.

The place of men. Men in this faith are protectors, builders, providers, and servants of life. Their honor grows by how well they serve the Mother's order, the land, and the circle. In the Lenape kinship that Moabe honors, a mother's brother, zhis, carries a special duty to her children; men of the faith carry that same duty to the young of the whole community.

Leading as the Mother leads. Authority in the faith flows the way a mother's care flows: toward the good of the whole, with patience, and for generations not yet born. Power used for self alone has no place here.

The path of awakening

Awakening from unconsciousness happens in stages, each marked by words the person speaks before the circle.

The seeker begins by looking up again: following the moons, attending Naxa Kishku, and learning the statement. The seeker's word is npënamën, "I look at it" (L).
The member declares nuwatun, "I know it" (L), and enters the Covenant of Alignment. A member keeps the code of integrity, tends the land, and walks the three paths.
The facilitator of the first degree, Kweti, completes training in the teachings, the calendar, and Moabe, and is anointed before the Nuhàm Circle with the vow gata lapèmkwësi, "I want to be useful" (L).
The facilitator of the second degree, Nìsha, leads the gatherings of the moon, the purification rite, and the peak-day practices.
The facilitator of the third degree, Naxa, teaches other facilitators, keeps the rites of passage, and serves as counsel to the Nuhàm Circle.

No one is ranked above another in worth. The degrees mark service and responsibility, not value. Each degree carries its own sacred title: Pìlsit, the clean one, at the first; Lapèmkwës, the useful one, at the second; and Welteh, the good heart, at the third.

The code of integrity

A member of Mikumwakàn lives by twelve ways, one for each moon of the year.

Speak what is true. Say only what is true and keep every word given.
Love without measure. Offer aholtëwakàn to every person, whether or not they earn it.
Honor the Mother. Honor women, the earth, and every source of life.
Honor the ancestors. Remember them, learn their knowing, and pass it on.
Govern yourself. Answer for your own thoughts, choices, and actions; blame no one for your path.
Tend the land. Plant, keep seed, waste nothing, and give back more than you take.
Care for the body. Eat from the land, drink clean water, rest, move, and keep the body as a temple.
Keep the rhythm. Follow the moons and the stations of the sun, and honor every Naxa Kishku.
Give back. Share the harvest, your time, and your gifts with the circle.
Do no harm. Bring no violence to any person, creature, or land.
Mend what breaks. When harm is done, seek repair through the Nuhàm Circle rather than revenge.
Serve harmony. In every choice, ask whether it moves the world toward unity, integrity, and perfect harmony.

The code is spoken in full at each spring Day One, when the year is born and every member renews their covenant.