Fifth World
According to Native American Hopi mythology, the current, or Fourth World, is coming to an end. The beginning of the imminent Fifth World will be heralded by the arrival of a being known as Pahana, or the lost "White Brother".
Navajo creationism in articulating the origin of the Navajo people, uses similar terminology to describe their emergence through four worlds and into a fifth.
Fifth World is also an appellation sometimes ascribed to certain obscure New Age beliefs of recent origin and limited currency. In this context the term appears to be largely derivative of American Indian mysticism.
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