A baby girl, Mahataa, incarnates as a High Born One in 1902 in a small village on an island in the East China Sea. She has been sent by Spirit to usher humanity into the Golden Age of Peace. At birth, she gives an extraordinary cry that signals her high spiritual destiny, however she must be trained carefully to fulfill it. She learns her family lore from Great-Grandmother Hanaa, encounters an Old Monk who teaches her esoteric Meditation and the defensive martial art of Tai Chi. She is made privy to secrets of the High Priestess, Soothsayer and the village Medicine Woman. Meanwhile, her best friend, a boy named En, is on his own spiritual path, which includes an episode of disappearance into another world under the influence of a mysterious Treasure Box that Great-Grandmother had left in Mahataa's care. There is a Dark Sorceress in desperate search of it to inherit its power in order to establish an era where Darkness reigns supreme.This is a tale of the female archetype who incarnates with the attributes of the wise woman and mystic.
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