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Beyond The Firmament
Tales From The Cosmos
5. Earth
The cosmos was vast and the stars were numerous and bright, yet none could match Da Suun's radiance, let alone Da Vaada. The smallest of them began to dull their light as if to hide. Some would go even further, bowing and shrinking, becoming even smaller, compressing themselves until they hardened, forming what would come to be known as rock.
The first to do this had done so in Da Suun's direct presence, at the very centre of all creation. This pleased Da Vaada who named it Teyra (Earth) and that is what all rock would be known as throughout the universe.
Soon others followed, the hardened and those who had only dulled their light, drawn in by the sheer magnitude of Da Vaada's glory. They were no longer stars, so he gave them a new name, planets and he gave them to the stars that remained. Teyra was given to your sun, along with 8 others: 4 were rock, like Teyra and 4 had simply dulled their light, leaving only gas.
Teyra was to remain in its position as it was the first, so the others were arranged around it, forming the solar system. All over this pattern was followed, each star having an arrangement of planets of different sizes, each one held in place by the sheer magnitude of their hosts. Gravity, my acolytes and it was not exclusive to the stars.
Some of the smaller planets were captured by larger bodies and thus stripped of their status, being known as moons. These captured moons could number in the hundreds, though Teyra was given one.
Some of the even smaller planets broke apart, becoming asteroids. Others still were permitted to move on their own. To go rogue if you will.
Those that remained in their stars' orbits would always have one side facing the light and another where the light and warmth could not reach, giving over to the darkness and cold. So planets were made to rotate so that they would be kept in a perpetual state of warming and cooling.
This was Alta (day) and Odic (night).
This was good.
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