| FAIRY TALES OPERA CYCLE | 
| PETER HUEBNER · THE ISLAND OF HAPPINESS | 
| The Ancient Star Path of Our Ancestors to Cosmic Power | 
| The Shadow Images of Reality at the Silvery-White Gate to the Transcendence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|  The 
        Emperor of the Seasons in the Sign of the Stars  | 
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         Richly laden with the holy gifts of the gods that lie hidden within the sparks of happiness, Mani now turned her unclouded sight towards the third mountain that rose above the horizon in a splendour never seen before; and she believed to see a miracle. All the variety of nature was assembled there; summer resided full of joy next to the deepest recuperating rest of winter; spring, beaming with happiness, victoriously won himself a place between the golden and silvery magnificent structures of these mighty phases of nature, like a happy child between its content parents; and autumn lowered the splendour of its colourful foliage towards the glistening hoarfrosted feet of winter as its blessing gift to the next generation, the year to come. But above all the diversity of rime-decorated crystal plants, of green 
          and luscious leaves, of strong trunks and robust roots of thirst, of 
          the swelling sea of flowers and of golden fruits of the ripe harvest 
          of autumn, above everything the golden scintillating firmament boasted 
          all its stars, shining in so many colours. In unruffled bliss the ruler of the seasons resided over all the splendour 
          on his bejewelled throne. No matter how many light-droplets from the stars streamed down from 
          the sky towards the man with the blue-silvery beard, no sooner had they 
          reached his mighty head than they all shone brighter than before; and 
          from each of these little shell-like lakes of divine nectar a delicate, 
          all-permeating rainbow- Shimmering in many colours, the arc of light awakened these globules of bliss that swayed in blissful rest to new deeds, and merrily they jumped towards the pure fountain, always taking the one end of the rainbow with them, and dived swiftly into the well. Now the waters, that issued forth from it, began to shine in the most 
          beautiful colours, and as the white-golden threads of fate of the holy 
          virgins were immersed in them they assumed a luminous splendour of colours.  | 
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