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The story begins with Maquia, who is from a magical race where all the members stop aging in their mid-teens. She has no parents and, although her days are peaceful, she feels lonely. Their peace is shattered when an army invades, seeking the secret to her people's immortality. Leilia, the most beautiful girl in her clan, is taken away, and the boy Maquia has secret feelings for disappears. Maquia is able to escape, but she loses her friends and her home. Wandering alone in the forest, she finds Ariel, a baby boy who has lost his parents. The story follows the changing relationship between the two as Ariel grows up and Maquia does not. Essentially, the story is about life and how it consists of an endless cycle of love and loss – grown out of loneliness perhaps. As an immortal being, Maquia feels so lonely and because of that loneliness fate brings her out into the world of humans to experience life as a human being, a friend, a mother. She gets to know what it means to worry, to work, to love, to struggle. And she realises how painful and excruciating all of it can be. But she also experiences the utter beauty that lies in exactly that: the pain and the love and the loss and all the precious memories she got to gather which will always stay with her. The loom`s fabric represents all of it: time and space and peoples fate being caught up in it, rendering a unique story for everyone – and each and everyone is waving their own fabric, taking part in waving other people’s fabrics as well.

Buddhist believes state, roughly, that all human beings have a soul or a higher self which derives from God – an eternal being, the primal ground and source, who is everything and nothing at the same time. Those higher selves and eventually we, one could say, are children of God. The Iolph, with their blond hair (reminiscent of the “jester” or “fool”), big eyes and child-like features symbolically might represent those young and inexperienced higher selves. They are said to come from another world or dimension where they live in peace and wholeness. To experience life and grow they come down to this world, live a life as human beings and eventually return to their peaceful home – until they decide to come back down again. But because those higher selves leave their only and true parent – God – to become independent but are children still, they are out in the world on their own, like orphans (which is highly reminiscent of the biblical Parable of the Prodigal or Lost Son) leaving themselves with only one another to look after – saving each other but also “screwing up” along the way. This higher selves are also said to not judge, to not differentiate between good and evil, which is part of the reason why so many people experience so much pain in their lives: it is not seen as being neither bad nor good. It is just regarded as being what it is. And to get to know it one has to feel and experience it.

So all is to just live and love, remember and grow – until we all go back home to being part of God again. The growth we gain out of all of it is woven into all of our destinies. It is our promise we get, which may be why the protagonist of this story is called “Mauiqa”. Her name may refer, among other things, to the word “magic” or “mágos“ which means “the wise one”. Not only will she become wise in the end by following her heart and thus being ready to leave the world of humans, but she has had her name all along: she has always been destined to become wise and return home.





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