PARHELION
A sun inside a halo, with two more suns shining beside it, over a frozen lake at dusk

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PARHELION

Glory for the world. Grace for yourself.

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The name

A second sun, made of the same light

A parhelion is the sun’s own light, seen again.

When sunlight passes through flat, six-sided ice crystals high in the air, two more suns appear beside the first. It is not a reflection or a trick of the eye. It is the same light, arriving by another path.

It shows most often when the sun is low, at sunrise and at sunset: the two ends of the day.

  • par-HEE-lee-ən
  • From the Greek, “beside the sun”
  • In English since c.1574

An English sky

“Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun… Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.”

William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3

In early February 1461, three suns rose over an English army. Where others saw a warning, the young Edward, Earl of March, saw a sign of favour. He went on to become King Edward IV, and took the Sun in Splendour as his emblem.

Two compositions · Arriving soon

Your light,
always by your side.

Parhelia appear beside the sun and glow with its light, making it more radiant still. Our first two compositions are made to do the same for you.

One for the day you give the world. One for the night you keep for yourself.

Developed and made in England

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