During the earlier periods of civilization, the usage of myths and stories as allegories for otherwise natural (unless discovered otherwise by the religious institution of that period) were quite common. One particular incident, one of the three full solar eclipses noted. It is, also, one of the earliest sources connecting the deity Solaris to the sun, rather than his standing as god of light, wisdom and the arts. The story, summarized, is as follows:

“At peak of the mountains of Ataea sat the great Nox, and at his side was the deity of the Six Great Songs. The deity (Sol) played a gentle tune on his harp, of which the strings, three-and-twenty, became the tones of the Great Words, of which you will have seen in many hymnals. It soon came to be that this deity of song, had wished to play a game with Nox who had otherwise been stringing together the freshly bloomed flowers of the Snowbush.

‘Great One,’ asked the Singing One, ‘Shall we play a game, as done in the days before?’

‘Of which game do you speak, O’ Pleasantly Singing Bird (Translator’s Note: direct translation, original word may have connotations of ‘theatre’ or ‘brightly acting’)

‘In the time before, when the world was yet young and had not been set with either name nor measure, we used to bide our time by seeking each other in the mass void.’ (Historian’s Note: There is one text from an alchemical sect which uses similar symbology, refer to Askepea’s ‘Theurgy of the Ray: A Discovery of Light in Alchemical Symbology)

‘Very well, Fair One’

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And so the game began, and the lilting laughter of the Singing One was heard as he bound a threaded band around the eyes of his deity, and made way into the vast heavens above. While Nox waited patiently for his time, the Great Light arose to the heavens and asked to borrow the Solar Chariot of the President of the Sphere. The President of the Solar Sphere obliged him, and so the Singing One had begun to stride across the Heavens under the guise of an illusionary sun.

Soon, it came as expected, that Nox awoke from his brief count and walked from corner to corner of their shared grotto. He did not find the Singing One there, nor did he find him in the trees, the crooks of the mountain, nor the rivers, nor the blooming flowers. Neither of these housed the sneaky Singing One, who we know to be playful as the light which dances on the snow.

Fearful, Nox then ran to the Heavens and sought council from the President of the Lunar Sphere, who then said that he had seen the Singing One go higher. Gratefully, Nox moved upwards to the Wandering Sphere, to which the President of Hermos said that he had seen the Singing One go higher. Gratefully, Nox moved higher to the Shining Sphere of the Dove-Star. He then asked the Lady of the Dove-Star who said that she had seen the Singing One go to the Sphere of the Sun above her. Gratefully, he rushed forward and opened the doors of the Solar Abode. The President of the Sun, then seeing, said that the Laughing One was on his chariot, and that he would be where the Shining Light would be.

Rushing, Nox ran under the Wandering Stars and the Fixed Stars until he saw the Light in the distance. Relieved, he rushed forward and grabbed the back of the Chariot. To we, the mortals on the First Earth, this was the moon beginning to move unto the Sun. Jumping, he grabbed the Singing One from the back and held him close to his heart. To we, the mortals on the First Earth, this is when the Sun and Moon were one.

Now, we are well-aware of the spiritual potencies of such an affair. It is said that, in his relief, Nox had begun to cry and these tears fell onto the earth in seven places which became the Seven Healing Streams. ...’

The aforesaid is also used to describe the appearance of the Seven Springs which arose in the western regions of Ataea Range, of which two had become the spot of two temples to Solaris and one, now abandoned, which was dedicated to Noctifer but it was abandoned in the late 4th Century.