3,000 years ago in what is now England, before the Romans arrived, lived the Catuvyrni tribe. The Catuvyrni were, in most respects, no different from other Briton tribes of the time. They were a fierce, warlike people, led by a warrior-chief, wielding swords of bronze and iron, and constantly engaging other tribes in bloody wars for territory. They enjoyed feasting, drinking, and reciting epic poems of heroes and battles.

But in one respect, the Catuvyrni were millennia ahead of their fellow Britons. Their druids were brilliant astronomers and astrologers who mapped the stars and tracked the courses of the planets to determine rainfall and the outcomes of battles. Long before Copernicus was born, the Catuvyrni druids invented primitive telescopes and discovered that the Earth was round and that the Earth and planets revolved around the Sun, rather than the universe revolving around a flat Earth. They discovered the planets of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto beyond the orbit of Saturn. The Catuvyrni took great pride in their knowledge of the workings of the heavens. Alas, when the Romans conquered Britain and made slaves of the Catuvyrni, this knowledge of the heavens—and of the very existence of the tribe—was lost to the sands of time.

That is, until now. While hiking in the forests of England, I came across a small stone box buried in the ground. Upon digging the box out and opening it, I discovered inside the records of the Catuvyrni, written on scrolls of parchment. They contained the whole history of the tribe, from their mythic origins to their conquest by the Romans; their knowledge of the Solar System and the movements of the planets; and most importantly, their religion and mythology.

The Catuvyrni worshipped many gods, chief among them the Great Golden One—the primeval god of the Sun—and the Twelve, the gods of the planets. Their sacred texts told of an ancient civilization that sailed the heavens in great Sky-Ships and settled on all the planets of the Solar System. They told of elves, dwarves, and goblins, ancient kingdoms of men, and battles across the heavens. They told of the creation of the Solar System as it was in the tribe’s time, and as it is today.

After years of painstaking work and research, I managed to translate the scroll of the Catuvyrni mythology into English. I now present it here for all to read.

NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblances to actual events or Briton tribes are purely coincidential.