Fifth world has several related meanings:

• According to Native American Hopi mythology, the current world, the 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.

• Fifth World is an appelation given by some to Micronations, tiny entities (such as Sealand) that claim sovereign nation status but are not recognized by any UN members.

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See also

• Millennialism

Millennialism (or chiliasm), from millennium, which literally means thousand years, is primarily a belief expressed in some Christian denominations, and literature, that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth where Christ will reign prior to the final judgment and future eternal state, primarily derived from the book...

External links

• Pahana and the Hopi Prophecy
• Pahana shall bring with him the dawn of the Fifth World