As this aria ends canoes bearing dancers (The Dawn Birds) and actors in brightly colored costumes begin to appear from the far side of the lake.
The characters of Wolf, Three-horned Enemy and Sun God are large, 7 to 18 feet high, lavishly decorated puppets mounted on long war canoes.
The Princess of the Stars is the Prologue in a series of twelve theatre pieces entitled Patria[2] (Latin for homeland).
The story line of The Princess of the Stars is based, in part, on traditional tales told by various northeastern North American native peoples.
In the opera, the Sun God's daughter, the Princess of the Stars, falls to the earth and is captured by Three Horned Enemy, who hides her at the bottom of a lake.