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.
Certain groups consider themselves fifth world nations, separate from the widely accepted first world, second world, third world, and "fourth world" nations. Although sometimes referred to as micronations, fifth world nations share common traits distinct from micronational traits. The fifth world is represented by the Fifth World Council. Among their more important characteristics, fifth world nations reject the Montevideo Convention, the Outer Space Treaty, the Antarctic Treaty, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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