The original Chinese tale of the ten
suns tells of a deity, Di Jun, who had ten suns as children. The suns
would take turns riding across the sky each day. One day, the suns
grew tired of this and all ten of them rose to play in the sky
together. Their combined heat made life on Earth unbearable, burning
the land, drying crops, and killing people. Nine of the suns had to
be shot down by the archer Houyi, and the remaining sun is the one we
still see in the sky today. In my retelling, I'm focusing on the
problem of drought that would be caused by this overheating of the
planet. Crops are dead, and Houyi is forced to look for water along
dry riverbeds, without strength to shoot down the suns.
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