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Where Prophecies Run Together, The Seven Fires Prophecy: Part 1

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The Anishinabe people have a set of seven sacred prophecies they call the Seven Fires. They explain that seven prophets came to them and delivered them at a time they were living peacefully on the shore of north-eastern North America. Each of the prophecies given by the Anishinabe prophets is referred to as one of the seven "fires." Below I will compare passages of the Anishinaabe Seven Fires Prophecies to other scriptural prophecies. The versions of the Seven Fires that are quoted below all came from The Mishomis Book, by Edward Benton-Banai. I'll link online sources for the Seven Fires at the bottom. All the red highlighting in the quoted material is added by me. Other than that, the quotes should be the same as the materials they were taken from. *A description of who the Book of Mormon refers to as "gentiles" in the quoted material below: They were originally divided by "many waters" from the people in the American continent. They would cro