Some mirrors can’t be seen, but without knowing, one’s reflections will be seen; at other times, they won’t; sometimes, one could fly or walk into a sky mirror. At other times, it’s a barrier. Ancient kingdoms in the mythical world set up the sky mirrors; the mirrors had once created whole environments for the rulers. They liked what was being done and eventually enveloped the entire land with mirrors. What was seen in these sky mirrors, where sometimes caught in the reflections in a pool of water somewhere else, similar to what is seen after rains had created puddles? There were large oceans that also reflected what was in the mirror. Was the mirror a door to another world? The kings used it to fool invading armies into believing they had a larger army. The invaders would fall or walk into the mirror and never return. After the danger, the mirror would return to normal, becoming unnoticed. The kingdoms are gone, the mirrors are not used anymore, and local villages and scholars use the only ones that might still be in use.
Particular mirrors were disassembled and used for personal purposes. Some wanted to have a vision of the sky in their homes. This became a danger; people could walk into one of them by accident and never return. Many of the ancient mirrors were gateways to places.
There was a secret way of entering a home through a mirror; in this way, intruders couldn’t find a door.
Some pools are mirrors. Eventually, they run dry, and the rains come to fill them up, and new worlds are made, and they can be entered into the pool like a mirror. It’s a liquid mirror similar to the mercury element; the mirror has to be related to the pools when the mind is in harmony with the pool scenes from everywhere can be seen; people wait each rainy season for the reservoirs to fill up with new waters. The water that fills the pools becomes a liquid mirror, not water. During the winter, the pools never freeze; it remains a liquid.
Who built the pools of water and the mirrors? Exceptional craftsmen built them. Their hands and minds are almost magic, but it’s an ability from somewhere else, from a place that once existed in the “Mountains of the Flowers of the Sun,” capabilities that existed beyond physical craftsmanship; the builders of the mirror pools had entered another world to create and assemble the mirrors. Imagination made everything. Nothing was physically impossible. Whatever their specialty, builders put their minds to what they started. They had special tools that emerged from their fingers as they worked, like tiny beams of light that worked in various ways, as the rays of light built a thing that had been imagined and brought to physical form.
People had tried to see the future with the mirror pools and mirrors. Generally, they never reveal the future. Or the mirror refuses such request because the end was never considered necessary. It could find travelers’ homes if they were lost or find the best travel destination, to a village, city, or rest place. Seeing anything with mirrors is possible.
The obvious thing is that mirrors didn’t look like mirrors the ones people find in their homes. Some mirrors look like that, most a white marble like a plane on the ground, a triangular slab with decorative elements painted or sculptured in relief.
There is another exciting thing about the mirrors, in certain parts of the deserts of the world, especially the Seicula world where they are interconnecting planets or walls, and looking outside, one won’t see the outside. Instead, there will be different landscapes from many other places. All one needs are thoughts of somewhere they are interested in; one can’t go to these places through these mirrors. The glass panels or walls don’t look like the typical mirror. They look just like glass windows with visions of many scenes interconnecting.
Sky windows are also considered mirrors, semi-opaque, and transparent; the circular openings are things to see in the sky. With each circular opening, one could see different skies; one could be a storm somewhere far away, another might be twilight, and others are observing the sky from a surrounding valley; pillars sometimes hold up these sky mirror windows, and others float up in the air without any support.
Things that resemble plates of glass are created as barriers in the desert to define property and warn of danger. The panes of glass are mirrors; they are often transparent with shades of gradated colors to keep people from walking into them. The colored tints of the fine mirrors change at various times, changing from one color to the next. The barrier panels are of different thicknesses; this has nothing to do with it; if they were delicate or not, the translucent mirror panels could never be broken. At night, they would glow like lanterns guiding travelers. They seem to form interacting colors on the boards and seem like abstract artwork. The panels became transparent as glass, then shades of color, next a mirror surface at various parts of the day will change, from hour to hour, second to second. Even a transparent panel will reflect images.
Images can be reflected from anywhere on the panels, even when one is working with them standing in front. Whatever these mirrors are, they are considered beautiful by the people of the mythical world.
Robert J. Matsuanga
