A Mayan princess comes to a court in Renaissance Italy, where she learns to access the magic inherent in all nature, which is her birthright.
Sound intriguing?
This is the very basic outline for the new YA fantasy I am currently researching and plotting. The tentative, working title is "Starsong," and I'm already very fond of my characters. The heroine isn't really a Mayan, and the court she visits is not really Renaissance Italy, but a fantasy world based loosely on these real places, in that period of time.
I have come up against a snag, though, which is causing me great headaches. I am trying to avoid religion in general in this work, and am choosing to incorporate the Mayan pantheistic beliefs as a form of magic. That seems safe enough.
However. Whether a book is overtly religious or not, I always strive to glorify God in my writings. How does a pantheistic mindset work within a traditional Judeo-Christian belief which says there is one God, one Creator?
The closest I have come to resolving this is to delve back into the European beliefs before the Renaissance, where it was thought the whole universe was alive and danced to glorify its Creator. If I can keep that mindset, of yes there is life in all things, but it is all tuned to praise the One who made it, perhaps then I might be able to make it work.
I am, however, very open to other suggestions or ideas. As I said, I am still in the throes of outlining and researching, so everything is very malleable right now.
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