Maria Arana was a Franciscan Abbas who lived and worked in Spain during the first half of the 17th century.

Later in life, she would become a prolific author, and everywhere she went, she wore the blue garments of her order.

But in 1620, when she was just 18, she started to report odd experiences.

Maria claimed that she was having incredibly real visions, visions, she said, of being in a foreign land far away from Spain.

In those dreams, she encountered a tribe of people known as the Yumano, but Mary considered these to be more than just dreams.

She said that angels were literally transporting her to another place.

For over three years, Maria spoke with the Yumano people, telling them of her work in the church and teaching them as best as she could.

And then, in 1623, her visions stopped.

Six years later, a group of Native Americans from the Western region of modern Texas approached the local Spanish authorities there that asked for a missionary to be sent to their village.

Before agreeing to do so, the local priest asked why. The men said that they'd been visited by a beautiful young woman dressed in blue, and that she had taught them many things.

Those Native Americans, it turns out, were members of a tribe known as the Yumano, and their arrival in 1629, along with their mysterious connection to a young Abyss, thousands of miles away, have sparked questions that are still impossible to answer, even now.

In a world as enormous and enticing as our own, it's easy to see how people would dream of being somewhere else.

We long for tropical vacations, or a chance to visit our ancestral home.

Right now, you might be in an office, or a classroom, or sitting in traffic, and at the same time, your mind might be on a beach somewhere else entirely.

But that's nothing more than a daydream.

No one can be in two places at once, or can they.

I'm Aaron Manky, and this is lore.

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