  The oral traditions of Aboriginal cultures across Australia contain
references to the presence of multiple Suns in the sky at the same time.
Explanations of this have been largely regarded as symbolic or mythological,
rather than observations of natural phenomena. In this paper, we examine oral
traditions describing multiple Suns and analyse interpretations that could
explain them. Our analysis of the oral traditions concludes that descriptions
of multiple Suns fall into two main categories: one describing the changes in
the path of the Sun throughout the year, and the other describing observations
of parhelia, an atmospheric phenomenon known as 'Sun dogs' that creates an
optical illusion of multiple Suns in the sky at once. This analysis shows how
Aboriginal people pay close attention to natural phenomena, assign them social
meaning, and incorporate them into oral tradition.
