Thursday, January 28, 2010

the Chaldeans had arrived :

It seems almost certain that the reason is that by then the Chaldeans had arrived with their barbaric names for the planets — Nebo, Ishtar, Nergal, Marduk and Ninib. The Greeks simply substituted their own deities’ names for the foreign ones — so today we call the planets by names that are English renderings of Latin translations of Greek translations of the original Babylonian ones!

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