Ten Suns. A Chinese Legend retold by Eric A. Kimmel. (1998)

Just a quick pick-me-up during a hard day. Once I saw the illustration and the title I immediately thought about ten sons and ten suns, and for a brief moment was wondering if I had forgotten which way to spell which. (That constant fear of Alzheimer's)

One of the many tales I have not heard. Mother Xi drives one of her ten sons to the eastern horizon, and then the son/sun would walk across the sky to warm all the people and living things. Just one at a time, as too many of them together would be too hot. But the sons/suns got bored of doing this by themselves....

Not sure if this is a system of gods. We have the great emperor (not capitalized) step in, then Hu YI, the Archer of Heaven (capiatlized). Ah he had once been a man and invented the bow and arrow. The gods placed him in the heavens among the constellations. (Orion?)

Wonderful illustrations by Yongsheng Xuan.