Suntzugi

The sun is the star that gave life to everything on earth. Different traditions throughout our human history have worshipped the sun for bringing light to the dark and life to the dead. All calendars and religious holidays are mapped to the stars and the cycles caused by the sun, even the moon cycles exist because of the light reflected by the sun on the moon. Many people have begun to call me sun on twitter as an abbreviation for Suntzoogway and Suntzugi, this wasn't planned, but I take it in stride as I see symbolically as others choosing to call me a bringer of light and warmth; I endeavour to do so.

Interestingly in Chinese, sūn 孫 means grandchild, descendant. The english language mirrors this beautifully with the homonym son. As the son of the sun, I hope to do this beautiful word, I have been bestowed as a name by my twitter friends, justice and keep my inner child's curiosity and wonder alive.

In Chinese Tzu is a title meaning Master. To learn is to master, and the eternal master remains forever a student.

The turtle — patient building that scales exponentially on a solid foundation. In myth, the turtle carries the world on its back — reality itself resting on quiet endurance. Home is wherever you are, because you carry it with you. Move with grace and fix things — not fast and break things like the rabbit of Silicon Valley.

The ancient Chinese strategist who taught that the greatest victory comes without violence.

Tsugi 継ぎ — to mend, to continue, to join what was broken. In Japanese, it is the heart of kintsugi 金継ぎ, the art of repairing broken pottery with gold — making the fracture part of the beauty, not something to hide. The break becomes the most luminous part.

But Tzu Gui is also Master Turtle — 子龜. An echo of Master Oogway, the tortoise who saw potential where no one else looked. Sun grew up as Po — the passionate outsider with no secret ingredient, no lineage, no traditional path. Just earnest, stubborn love for the craft. And that was always enough to become the Dragon Warrior. But time turns Po into Oogway — the one who must now lead, who must help others ascend the same mountain. Before this name there was Suntzoogway — Suntzugi is the abbreviation, the neologism, the next chapter.

Mastering the art of repairing with light — the belief that the world can be mended with love, just as the sun brought life to earth from its quiet position in the heavens. A neologism built from Chinese, Japanese, and the memory of a turtle who carried everything on his back and kept walking.

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