A spotlight is cast upon Helen holding her child in her arms, standing upon an orb poised above a crescent moon, within the bowl of it, so that the moon resembles golden horns cradling the Earth, and she above it, enthroned. About her head twelve star-points are arrayed in a halo, rotating. The orb-and-moon rises, lofting Helen and child, as the chorus speaks.

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Image is a common motif

of the Virgin Mary,

this one by Albrecht Durer.

It is identical to the motif

of the Great Mother Goddess

as related by Apulieus

in his pagan Roman novel,

The Golden Ass.

Music excerpt is
 Hovhaness: Harp Concerto, Opus 267 performed by 
Yolanda Kondonassis (harp).