Writers wrote about thoughts and things of the heavens; their words defined the sky, spiritual things, the love and embracement of the inner soil of the ground, and the darkness of the underground. What have these words been saying? For some people, the sky or heavens represented unlimited freedom; they wrote that they had traveled in the sky in both physical and metaphoric concepts. It was the freedom of flying in the sky without a machine. The writers of the mythical world had written poems and stories of the sky’s unlimited capacity to hold words. To these writers, unseen lands existed that had stories to tell. Ancient legends spoke of upside-down worlds where the land and ocean were the skies to people who lived in the sky. The land was the mother who nurtured things that grew on it; the crops of farmland, natural wild things, and ground people lived on were provided for.

Transformation or magical writers wrote about the wonders of the scenes they saw; through their words, they created natural gardens and wastelands. These writers were in contact with the spiritual realms, where each had a spiritual guide. When they wrote the wrong things, the world around them changed, and disasters resulted. Only by writing positive things was harmony restored. Writers had access to the ancient scrolls that spoke about kingdoms that once existed, some writers were inspired to bring them back, with disastrous circumstances, because what they called from the past was the ghost that haunted their present-day world. Sensible writers explored the cultural legends with caution; they made sure that what they wrote stayed on paper and never became a reality. A scholar criticized the writers as illogical, mad, and unimaginative. Writers disregarded what was said and continued writing as if nothing had been said.

Writers of transformative magic wrote on special paper and ink that made worlds that came alive on paper and reality; the writer made worlds materialize around them as they wrote. Outsiders said that the report was special and that if they could have used them, they believed that they would have created places and things. People had stolen the inks and papers and found to their disappointment, that they were ordinary; they realized the power resided in those notable writers. Only a few writers had such abilities; they were trained by the masters of written light, who were rumored that they come from the skies above. Their teachers were familiar with these magic abilities and passed on a tradition that stretched to the unrecorded past.

Gardens surrounded the writers’ homes of transformative magic; they built, through written words, the gardens that people wished for.

Robert J. Matsunaga