Virgin of Andalusia

Hamida Al-Andalusiyya, daughter of Saad... Princess among princesses of the West, standing before the Lord of Lords of the Persians and Arabs, her companions honor her and elevate her status until she nearly reaches the Taurus constellation, while she is a captive servant girl, unaware as she looks around that she has never been as today a princess... And how could she not be, while she is now living what she saw in a precious moment, and she looks but cannot bear to look, at this angelic dazzling face that has always comforted her broken solitude, until the moon that suddenly fell into her lap appears to her, as if it descended as a revelation, or a guidance, or burst forth from the depths of her heart alive; indeed... she believed the vision, oh Hamida... she believed the vision!