Oscar van Dillen - Elements 2: Helium (2022) Hi-Res

At the beginning of the universe there was only energy, immensely hot energy in an expanding universe consisting of time and space. It is only after some initial cooling that the 4 fundamental forces themselves started to come into being, after which what we know as particles started to form. After sufficient cooling these particles started to combine into the first atoms: Hydrogen and Deuterium, along with some Helium nuclei (incomplete atoms).

One of the 4 fundamental forces is gravity. It was responsible for condensing clouds of matter (as we call everything made out of atoms) so much, that they started to collapse upon themselves and became the first stars. Within these stars, largely consisting of Hydrogen, pairs of Hydrogen atoms were fused into Helium. This is why we call this element Helium because it was first found to exist on the sun. Only later was it also discovered on earth too.

But the element Helium was named after our star. Known as Ra to the Egyptians, or Ahura Mazda by the Persians.