#xihe

Lyra, which is Latin for "lyre," is one of the original 48 constellation set down by Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.

In Greek mythology, Lyra is the lyre carried by Orpheus. It was said that Orpheus's music was so great that even inanimate objects were charmed. It was this skill that saved him, Jason, and the Argonauts from the dangerous Sirens. He eventually used his musical skills to charm even Hades as he attempted to rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the Underworld. Unfortunately, his task was not successful, and he wandered aimlessly through the land, strumming his lyre and rejecting any other women.

Also, you should listen to Sara Bareilles' song Orpheus.

The named stars are, in order of brightness:

Vega (α Lyrae), the brightest star in Lyra and the fifth-brightest star in the night sky. Vega is a solitary blue-white giant star about 25 light years away. Astronomers have extensively studied Vega, making it one of the well-known stars in the sky after the Sun. Its brightness sets the standard for how astronomers talk about brightnesses of other stars, called the magnitude system. Its name comes from the Arabic word wāqi' meaning "falling."

Sulafat (γ Lyrae) is a blue giant star about 620 light years from Earth. Its name comes from the Arabic word al-sulḥafāt meaning "turtle." The connection here is that harps were once commonly made from tortoiseshell.

Sheliak (β Lyrae) is a sextuple star system about 960 light years from Earth. It consists of a blue supergiant, two blue giants, a red dwarf, and two Sun-like stars. Its name comes from the Arabic word šiliyāq which was one of the names of Lyra in Arabic astronomy.

Aladfar (η Lyrae) is a probable binary star system about 1,390 light years from Earth. It consists of at least a blue giant star. Its name comes from the Arabic word al-ʼuẓfur meaning "talons," since some Arabic astronomers viewed Lyra not as a harp, but as a vulture.

Xihe (HD 173416) is a yellow giant star about 433 light years away. It has one confirmed exoplanet orbiting it, about twice the mass of Jupiter, named Wangshu. Both names were chosen by the people of China: Xihe is the goddess of the Sun in Chinese mythology as well as an early astronomer, and Wangshu is the goddess of the Moon.

See, there's this massive tree called Fusang that grew in the Tang Valley. It's so big that it has an entire palace in it's branches. Talk about a fancy tree house, right? And, of course, it has immortality giving fruit like 80% of all other magic trees in ancient China (seriously, with all these immortality fruits, it's a wonder the 10 Kings of the Underworld have jobs anymore).

Anyway, they all lived in the tree, but how they took turns being in the sky varies by telling. Some stories have their mother Xihe carry them across in a chariot pulled by dragons, but sometimes they just climb the tree and sit at the top all day. One myth says that the suns were actually carried around by magic crows that Xihe blinded to keep them from taking her sons down to the mortal realm, so instead they decided to take the crows to the top of the tree and cause Problems. Whoops.

Last but not least, the last sun. See, all the myths with these guys mention that one stays in the sky, which makes sense because we kinda need at least one of them. They were only a problem because they all decided to party together. But it also makes sense that the last sun would be pretty nervous about coming out again after all 9 of his brothers either got sniped by Hou Yi or Shen I, or smashed with a mountain by Erlang Shen. That's when someone or something decided to have roosters crow at sunrise, to tell him to get his butt up there and do his job.