The Sun and How It Was Made by Divine Will
A free C1-level English story for language learners, readable online in 7 languages, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
A Slavic folk myth explains why the sun blazes across the sky each day, with angels, fiery phoenixes, and a crowing rooster all playing their part in its daily journey.
The Sun is thirty times the size it appears: looks very small because it is very high up from the earth.
O Sol é trinta vezes maior do que parece: parece muito pequeno porque está muito alto acima da terra.
The Sun has an apparel and a crown which would befit a Tsar, and fifteen thousands of angels of the Lord accompany him and deck him every day. And when the Sun wanes to the West, then the angels strip off from him that garb and crown which would befit a Tsar, and lay it on the throne of the Lord.
O Sol tem uma vestimenta e uma coroa dignas de um Czar, e quinze mil anjos do Senhor o acompanham e o adornam todos os dias. E quando o Sol declina para o Oeste, então os anjos retiram dele aquela veste e coroa dignas de um Czar, e as depositam sobre o trono do Senhor.
Three angels remain with the Sun and make him ready, and God has consigned one hundred angels to enrobe the Sun in an apparel and a crown meet for a Tsar.
Três anjos permanecem com o Sol e o preparam, e Deus encarregou cem anjos de vestir o Sol com uma vestimenta e uma coroa dignas de um Czar.
And when the Sun arises from the East crossing to the West, then fiery phoenixes and the Ksálavy of paradise fly in front of the Sun, but first wet their wings in the waters of the ocean and asperse with their wings the Sun that he may not sear them with his golden rays.
E quando o Sol se levanta a Leste, atravessando até o Oeste, então fênix ardentes e os Ksálavy do paraíso voam à frente do Sol, mas primeiro molham suas asas nas águas do oceano e aspergem com suas asas o Sol, para que ele não os queime com seus raios dourados.
But from the fire of the Sun the feathers even of these birds are consumed, because they are scorched away. And they again bathe in the ocean and are renewed.
Mas com o fogo do Sol, até as penas dessas aves se consomem, pois são chamuscadas. E elas se banham novamente no oceano e se renovam.
For this reason the cock is a prophet, and it has under its wings a white feather belonging to the other birds.
Por essa razão o galo é um profeta, e tem sob as asas uma pena branca pertencente às outras aves.
And when the Sun wanes to the West, then the cock’s feathers warp.
E quando o Sol declina para o Oeste, então as penas do galo murcham.
But when the Lord’s angels take the dress and the crown from the throne of the Lord, the cock awakens, lifts up his voice, flutters with his wings, the first time to announce the resurrection to the world and to tell the angels of the law; then to say: “O Christ, Giver of Light, look down on us and bestow on the world Thy light”; and the third time to sing: “Christ is the Life and accomplishes all things.” And thus the cock sings to the light, magnifies its Creator, and announces joy to the just. Amen.
Mas quando os anjos do Senhor retiram a veste e a coroa do trono do Senhor, o galo desperta, ergue a voz, bate as asas, a primeira vez para anunciar a ressurreição ao mundo e contar aos anjos sobre a lei; depois para dizer: "Ó Cristo, Doador da Luz, olhai para nós e concedei ao mundo a Vossa luz"; e a terceira vez para cantar: "Cristo é a Vida e realiza todas as coisas." E assim o galo canta para a luz, engrandece seu Criador, e anuncia alegria aos justos. Amém.
