The sun is on the edge of what is sometimes called the Local Bubble, a great void in the distribution of interstellar gas in the nearby galactic neighborhood.
The Local Bubble lies within a ring of young stars and star-forming regions known as Gould's Belt. The Belt is evident in the night sky as a band of very bright stars that sweeps in a great circle from the constellations Orion to Scorpius, inclined about 20 degrees relative to the galactic plane. The north pole of Gould's Belt lies close to the Lockman Hole.

The closest star-forming region on the outskirts of the Local Bubble is about 400 light-years away in the Scorpius-Centaurus association.
http://www.americanscientist.org/con...810035_546.gif
I believe the solar system was born in the Scorpius-Centaurus association.
Here is an object that is known as HH-34, which is also know as a young star. Large picture. http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-re...b-99-hires.jpg
You can see the string of pearls. If this is truly a star being born then you can see that they are are born in line with their planets out of a z-pinch in a interstellar Birkeland current.


The cloud around the solar system is part of the outflow of material from the Scorpius-Centaurus association.
http://www.americanscientist.org/tem...3/page/2#20970 The result of these two motions is that we observe interstellar material flowing toward the sun at about 26 kilometers per second from a direction close to the plane of the ecliptic and within about 15 degrees of the center of the galaxy. Because this material flows through the solar system, it has been dubbed the Local Interstellar Wind.

As you can see from this graphic, our solar system is truly an interstellar arc lamp.
http://www.americanscientist.org/con...103928_546.gif

So the solar system was born in a string of pearls configuration with Saturn at one of the ends glowing enough from the Birkeland current to provide a constant glow. Paradise.
http://www.maverickscience.com/The_S...rn_theory.html
Something happened in between to disturb the string of pearls, cause the Sun to light up and produce the solar system we see now.

Now one of the obvious problems with this scenerio is the age of the association. And then was the solar system ejected from its birthplace?
"With a distance of about 470 lightyears, Upper Scorpius is one of the nearest OB associations, and with an age of only about 5 million years it is very young"
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/tpreibis/usco.html

The standard model says this scenario is impossible. The Electric universe model says this scenario can happen, and it has happened within human history if we are to say there is one shread of truth to mythology.


When taken in the context of stars being born in a Birkeland current the Saturn theory may be an accurate descriptor of the history of the solar system which has taken place within the last 100,000 years.

"If the truth be known, the Saturn theory suffers from an embarrassment of riches with respect to evidence which supports the central tenets of the theory. Early descriptions of the "sun" and various planets from Mesopotamia and elsewhere describe them as occupying "impossible" positions and moving in a manner which defies astronomical reality (as currently understood, that is)."
http://www.maverickscience.com/The_S...rn_theory.html


Here is the mythological correlation for the above history of the solar system
1/2 way down the page.
http://www.aeonjournal.com/articles/...to_saturn.html

"Unlike the Sun, the luminary did not rise or set. It simply hung suspended in the north celestial pole, which could only mean that it shared the same axis of rotation with Earth. The Sun, it is stated, was completely absent from the sky.

Man remembers this age as a time of perpetual night. But for Saturn to have been visible, it must have shed some light. Since the light did not dissolve the gloom, the illumination must have been feeble. For fauna and flora to have thrived, Saturn must also have shed warmth. Man himself went completely naked. He knew nothing of chilling winds, cold rain, of snow, or ice.

During this period, the Saturnian orb does not seem to have been paid much heed. It was simply there, invoking neither fear nor reverence. But then an event transpired of such stupendousness that it went down in the annals of mankind as Day One. Saturn suddenly flared up in nova-like brilliance, flooding the Earth and its inhabitants with a blinding light. The act of creation had commenced.

When the light of the flare-up finally ebbed, man was presented with a ghastly sight. Spewing out from the central orb was a multi-spiralled black mass that revolved and wound itself around its parent. Viewed as a monster which the transformed god had to subdue, this was also the chaos out of which creation progressed.

It seems to have been precisely at this point that the Sun made its appearance. Day now succeeded night. Time had come into the world."

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