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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is this whole thing just an attempt to change the spelling of Uranus to something less funny?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not Uranus, that's Ouranus

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

We are all your bush on this blessed day!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ouranos is the Greek spelling. As far as the Greek god is concerned, that is the better name.

Uranus is the Latin spelling. Just like the other planets planets are named Mercury not Hermes, Mars not Ares, Jupiter not Zeus, astronomers looked to Latin not Greek for naming.

However the person that named Uranus fucked up because while Uranus is the Latin spelling of Ouranos, the Romans called the God Caelus. Rather than use the Roman name (again, like Neptune instead of Poseidon), the person who named it just used the transliteration not the actual nomenclature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Caelus, now the word celeste ("from the sky" or "heavenly" in some languages) makes more sense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yes of the pre-Olympian deities, a lot of them are quite literal and almost animist, in the sense that it is clear that the god is simultaneously a being but also a physical reality of the world. The sky, the earth, the ocean, night, day, darkness, light. And their children are concepts associated with their parents - to early civilised humans, the night creates strife, doom, death.

Only in later "generations" does a truly distinct personhood emerge - eg Zeus is not lightning himself, but he can control it. It's hard not to wonder if the generations of gods seen differently represent actual waves of religious reform or absorption where family trees were made to fit the story rather than vice versa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ouranos seems to be closer to the Ancient Greek spelling from what I can tell