The word
Two Greek words. One name for the light beside the sun.
Pronouncedpar-HEE-lee-ən
In the sky
Three suns, one light
Not a reflection, nor a trick of the eye: the sun’s own light, arriving by another path.
When sunlight passes through ice crystals high in the air, two more suns appear beside it. They are seen most often at sunrise and sunset, the two ends of the day.
- In English since c.1574
Why we chose the name
The sky that made a king
February 1461. On the morning of the battle that would decide his future, eighteen-year-old Edward, Earl of March, watched two more suns rise beside the first. His soldiers were afraid. Edward saw a blessing, and led them to victory.
Within weeks he was proclaimed King Edward IV, and the blazing sun became his royal badge.
Shakespeare later wrote the moment into Henry VI, Part 3, as the three suns meet:
“Now are they but one lamp,
one light, one sun.”
We named our house after that sky:
the sign that
the day is yours.
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