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Updated: May 5, 2025
Only it is a warmish evening, and why keep the sun-child awake?" "Zoe can sleep," she said, with the barely perceptible arch to her brows, "even through the fire of your presence." "Good!" he said, seating himself in great good nature and trying not to be quizzical. "So this is where you live."
He is always born at the winter solstice, after the shortest day in the year, at the midnight of the 24th of December, when the sign Virgo is rising above the horizon; born as this sign is rising, he is born always of a virgin, and she remains a virgin after she has given birth to her Sun-Child, as the celestial Virgo remains unchanged and unsullied when the Sun comes forth from her in the heavens.
She had a little trick of running up to her and half crying, half crooning: "Let me play cooney-kitten and get close," and then nestling her sunny head into her mother's neck, where the darker head invariably snuggled down against it and a caressing hand stroked the spun gold as a gentle voice said: "Mother's sun-child. The little daughter who helps fill her world with light."
It was a benevolent dictatorship of a kind never seen before or since. At the periphery of the Empire of the Sun-Child lived still unconquered savage tribes, which the Imperial forces were in the process of slowly taking over.
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