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Helios, Selene, and the Wanderers: What's In a Planet's Name | Astrology Ride of the Day
Different cultures named the planets different things, but the Greek names still stand out today — Helios, the sun; Selene, the moon; Hermes, Mercury, the twinkling one; Aphrodite, Venus, the light-bringer; Ares, Mars, the fiery one; Zeus, Jupiter, the radiant one; Kronos, Saturn, the shining one. These are the Greek gods, but what they actually referred to were the wanderers moving through the sky. The real thing worth noticing isn't the god names themselves — it's the descriptors that follow: twinkling, light-bringer, fiery, radiant, shining. Every one of them describes a type of light…
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