'Mystery of the White Lions' - A Spiritual Revelation by Linda Tucker

Mystery of the White Lions by Linda Tucker. Npenvu Press, Mapumulanga, South Africa, 2003.

www.metahistory.org/WhiteLions.php

Linda Tucker, has written a wonderful book, destined to become a classic on interspecies communication that will rank with the works of Farley Mowatt, Jane Goodall, and Barry Lopez. Subsequent to that adventure, Tucker became a student of Sangaan shaman Maria Khosa, the woman who saved the group, and later, of Credo Mutwa, the well-known Zulu shaman who advised John Mack (Passport to the Cosmos) on predation by alien entities. In a spiritual journey of ten years, Linda Tucker acquired a working knowledge of lion shamanism known only to a handful of people in Africa. Mystery of the White Lions is both an account of her personal quest and the record of a precious legacy that belongs to all humankind.

If her discoveries are anywhere close to the truth, the fate of the white lions may reflect, or even determine, the fate of another endangered species: humanity.

Linda Tucker was educated in Cape Town and Cambridge, England, where she majored in Jungian psychology and medieval symbolism. In 2002 she founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust to preserve white lions and the race shamanic cultural wisdom connected to them.
The address of the Trust: http://www.whitelion.co.za.
Their contact address is: whitelion@zamail.co.za

The Lion Identity

Mystery of the White Lions is a book of many revelations, on many levels. First and foremost, it is the compelling story of a rare genetic anomaly, blue-eyed and amber-eyed lions who are genuinely white, not albinos. It appears that the white lion cannot be a chance mutation, otherwise it would have spread regionally, which it has not. These specimens remain confined to the sacred region of Timbavati. In their case, the white recessive gene does not produce albinos and may involve a distinct set of feline genes not yet understood. (Tucker, p. 133ff, interview with geneticist Ted Sohn) The “very rare and novel set of mutations” required to produce the white lions awaits a scientific explanation, but a shamanic legend recounted by Credo Mutwa provides an explanation of sorts.

Although the first sighting of a white lion by a European witness occurred in 1938, the Zulu shaman relates their appearance to the fall of a meteor in Timbavati around 1600. Around that time natives observed that “all the animals that stayed within that area where the mysterious object had settled on the ground were giving birth to snow-white offspring” (p. 132). Are these snow-white, amber-eyed felines the result of a chance mutation produced by the meteoric fall? Or are they an emissary from the starry realms sent to guide humanity as it plunges toward the verge of extinction, as Linda Tucker comes to believe?

As Her quest unfolds, Tucker realizes that the identity of the white lions carries an evolutionary lesson that stretches far back into the past and ahead into the future: “This unique lion strain declared itself some four hundred years ago in this precise spot on the globe as precursors of a new epoch” (p. 135). Their identity cannot be understood apart from the place where they appear. Timbavati, which means “the place of coming down to the ground,” was a sacred site for the black natives long before it was declared a game preserve by white South African president Paul Kruger. Sangaan shamans known for their expertise in lion lore traditionally forbade hunting in the Timbavati area. Credo Mutva, a shaman of mixed Zulu and Bushman heritage, taught Linda Tucker that the white lions of Timbavati carry the eternal essence of native African wisdom and a message of crucial importance for all humanity. The purpose of Tucker’s book is to convey that message, to the best of her understanding.