The naming of our Sun

Before time was known and human life sprouted, before the warmth of the universe radiated amongst the stars; there, in the darkness, dwelt a lonely God. Amid clouds of dust and decay, broken and alone, he drifted. Silence surrounded, echoing into the nothingness of the void he waited. For a thousand years, he stood in that deepest black searching for the light.

Uranus, sent from the heavens to lord over the galaxies, prayed. For a thousand years- he did not rest. Never once blinking, using the vast coldness deep inside to freeze his great eyelids open in fear of missing his quest.

Until one day or night for all the understanding of time, a glowing orb crested in the great blackness bringing warmth like nothing Uranus had ever known. He began to drift forward- faster and closer, the new fixture pulled at him, melting the ice from his eyes. Uranus blinked. At first, he beat against the strength of this new star. He was a God that would not bend. He was Wind and Space and ruler of all things. But he was also tired, and the star was persistent.

So, Uranus, the God of the sky, softened his ineffable being, letting the seeping warmth tug him into a circular embrace, lulling the giant slowly to sleep.

And rest he did. For 100 years, the cold God slept under the golden heat, rocked slowly as a mother nestles a babe.

Dawn broke over Uranus’s face in what was to be the first dawn of our time. Stretching outwards, he glimpsed a wondrous sight. To his left stood a new God, beautiful in its creation, gaseous, and gloriously ringed. Regretfully, he turned away on instinct, and sure enough, on his right, stood a second God, similar to himself, a blue Giant, majestic and full of His grace.

“Children,” he called aloud. “Welcome to the Universe.”

“I name you, Neptune, God of all seas,” Uranus beamed toward the Blue God, "May your kindness be as vast as space itself; and your heart as strong as ice.”

Then looking left, the Sky God spoke to his daughter. “I name you, Saturn, Goddess of time and agriculture. Let creation heal all wounds, and let your strength guide this universe for all of time to come.”

And in a show of love and devotion, Uranus shook its great body causing a thousand diamonds to fall unto his offspring. The crystallised sparkles broke the black- shining even greater than their Star.

“But, what shall we call that with which we derive such warmth, oh benevolent Father?” Saturn spoke, her voice a melody unmatched.

Uranus looked to Saturn, then to himself, then to Neptune. “SUN, he chooses. “She is our sun.”