I decided that this was some kind of omen and that I better think about it all over again. Then I remembered that among the Hopi kachinas is the hummingbird kachina. I decided that I needed to read a book on the Hopi. Besides all the metaphysical types were asking me if I knew anything about the Hopi Prophecies, of which I was ignorant. Two books down, two to go.
Hummingbirds are just minor kachinas.
Hopi prophecy doesn't seem to resemble anything like what they were doing at Delphi, but it all comes from respective centers of the world. I am thinking that I would like to write a comparison and contrast paper on the oracles of Delphi and Oraibi. The Hopi prophecies seem to be very creative ways of putting the modern day world into context with the traditions of the people. I don't think, so far, that they actually involve precognition, but usually are related after the fact. I am keeping an open mind here that this might be the scientific bias of the book writers, but with an awareness that Frank Water's Book of the Hopi, was a little sensationalistic.