The text for this one movement work for women's voices and percussion is an adaptation of a chant recited at a Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico. The chant evokes the Divine Spirit with a supplication for healing; in the case of this piece of music, the supplication is for healing and bringing strength to the spirit. I have used a double translation, from the Mazatec to Spanish by Eloina Estrada de Gonzalez and from Spanish to English by Henry Munn. The work was commissioned and premiered by MUSE: Cincinnati's Women's Choir, Catherine Roma, conductor on May 26, 1994 at the Northern Kentucky University Greaves Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio.

m 25, beat 2, soprano line: bottom note 'dice' should be G-flat, then G-natural as written.