The Other Maria is dressed like a spirit (except in Scene 1) but one associated with rocks and precious stones.

THE PORTAL OF INITIATION

Prelude

Sophia’s room. The colour scheme is a yellow red. Sophia, with her two children, a boy and a girl; later, Estella.

Children (singing, whilst Sophia accompanies them on the piano):

The light of the sun is flooding

The breadths of space;

The song of the birds is filling