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Haumea

Four Hours

The SunHaumea
Haumea, on its way round the Sun. Drawn to be seen, not to scale: the order and the direction are real.

Haumea: spun into an egg shape by a four-hour day, with a ring and two small moons.

What the song is built on

  • Spun into an egg shape by a four-hour day
  • One of the fastest-spinning large bodies known
  • It has a ring, and two small moons
  • Named for a Hawaiian goddess of childbirth

Established astronomy. The music is an interpretation of it — see the curatorial policy.

SoundFast cyclical electronic, spinning arpeggio loops, polyrhythmic percussion, chanting layered vocals, 132 BPM, hypnotic and relentless

Lyrics
[Intro] Four hours. One whole day. Again. [Verse 1] Spinning so fast I'm not a sphere Stretched into an egg by my own speed Two thousand kilometres one way Half of that the other way I lead Something hit me long ago And set me turning like a thrown stone My ice flew off and became my moons Hi'iaka and Namaka, not alone [Chorus] Four hours, four hours One of the fastest big things ever found Four hours, four hours The day that won't let me settle down [Verse 2] A ring around me, thin and dark Found in twenty seventeen by a star's light going out The first ring ever seen this far from home On a world nobody talks about Named for the goddess of Hawaiian birth My moons for her daughters, made of ice A family shattered into orbit Still circling, paying the price [Bridge] Everything out here is slow Everything out here is cold And I am spinning like a coin on a table Refusing to be still, refusing to be old [Final Chorus] Four hours, four hours One of the fastest big things ever found Four hours, four hours The day that won't let me settle down [Outro] Four hours. One whole day. Again. Again.

Solar System — 2026 Founding Edition — one of 30 songs.