@@prathmeshchandwale1506 Well, that's chiefly how Christianity was spread, violent destruction of the Greek/Roman/Egyptian/etc. pantheons, burning of libraries, razing of temples (not to mention stealing any ornaments used to decorate statues of gods and goddesses), rape and murder of priests and priestesses. You said "How did we came to know names of the Lord?", and if the Roman Empire had cracked down on Christianity instead of mostly ignoring it, we wouldn't know the name of this 'lord' you speak of (unless you aren't talking about Christianity, in which case ignore me). Also, if said crack down had happened, we wouldn't have been plunged into such a long dark age, and we'd be way ahead scientifically. Greek philosophers living at that time were sooo close to inventing the scientific method, but instead, we had to wait over a thousand years for Christianity's tyrannical, draconian grip on Europeans to be loosened. What a pity.
Pluto is only 2% bigger in diameter than Eris, and Eris is much more massive (by about 27%). Also, Ceres was considered a planet when it was first discovered and demoted on similar logic to Pluto. So I don't really get the Pluto should be a planet angle some people have. But I would have saved all of the dwarf planets for another video because Makemake is fun to say.
Actually, “Uranus” is the Roman sky personification. The Greek would be “Ouranos”, and the Romans also had “Caelus”, but they preferred to call him “Uranus”
Howard Wiggins Howard Wiggins Gia/Gaea is Greek, Luna is Roman. There are many Latin based languages today that use some form of the latin word "Luna" to refer to the moon. La Luna is Spanish, In Italian it is also La Luna, French its La Lune, Portugese its A Lua, in Catalan its La Lluna
Lisa Gorska neat i didnt know that, i was never trained in Slavonic languages or the Cyrilic alphabet, mostly because there was never a Slavic presence in the caribbean, so its not offered at my school. But almost all the latin based ones are there, French, Spanish, Portugese, and a few Germanic languages, Danish, Dutch, and English. We even have a few blending of languages, like Portugese derived Papiamento, French derived Patrois, and English derived Crucian
I actually like the fact that Earth is a name with a simple meaning as opposed to the name of a God/dess-- it first reflects just how cozy our planet is to us in contrast to how exotic and strange these other planets are from our point of view.
3:37 In protuguese the name of our planet is indeed "Terra" and is pronounced the same. So those who speaks portuguese and maybe spanish or other latin languages do call the earth by the right name
Actually, in Greek we call Earth as "Gi" (Γη), that derives from the greek goddess Gaia (Γαία), also since Romans and ancient Greeks had the same gods with different names, we (the Greeks) call the planets by their greek equivalents (Hermes, Aphrodite, Gaia, Ares, Zeus, Cronos, Uranus, Poseidon). Fan fact: we use the same word for the sky and the planet Uranus, we call both of them Ouranos (Ουρανός), since Uranus was the god of the sky.
Uranus is actually visible to the naked eye. It just moves so slowly that its motion can't be noticed to distinguish it as a planet. And also pretty faint. Also Pluto is not the largest dwarf planet, Eris is.
The Chinese of the names are quite interesting. Mercury=planet of water; Venus=planet of gold; Mars=planet of fire; Jupiter=planet of wood; and Saturn is the planet of earth. Seriously, Saturn is earth in Chinese.
Erm...Eris is a dwarf planet, and it's larger than Pluto. In fact, the discovery of a Kupier Belt Object larger than Pluto is one of the reasons astronomers finally got around to redefining "planet" despite the inevitable public backlash. Speaking of which, why is Pluto the only dwarf planet you covered? It's not even the first discovered--that honor goes to Ceres.
Why didn't they named Uranus after its Roman equivalent?! Today English-speakers wouldn't have a way to make fun of it with such an immature joke! *Caelus* by the way is the Roman equivalent.
+Metamorfoza Enigmatică Well after watching it again at 6:25 the person that had the final word on what to call that new planet was a German! Which means that pronunciation of it in the English language wasn't taken into account. But, I feel the immature joke came way later! Frankly Cælus just looks and sounds better, although Hypercronius also sounds cool. However, as I came to read later Uranus' name wasn't sent until the 1850's, WAY after astronomers confirmed it to be a planet and not just another star as many thought before, something this video didn't explained.
sion8 actually the Roman's like the steal stuff so they were like... Roman's : Hey can we steal your God's and Goddesse's names and make them our own? Greek's : Yeah! Just change the names a little so they aren't the same Roman's : Ok! So Zeus is going to be Jupiter atc atc And that's how the planets were named!
Our Moon does have a Roman Mythological name = Luna (Selene in Greek Myth) who was seen as the counterpart of the Sun, Sol (Helias in Greek Myth) Also I find interesting, Mercury, Venus and Mars are the children of Jupiter; who himself is the son of Saturn, who is the son of Caelus (Uranus in Greek Myth). Neptune, Pluto, Ceres and Vesta (the last three being dwarf planets) are all children of Saturn thus siblings of Jupiter.
In Chinese, Mercury is the Water Star Venus is the Golden Star Earth is the Ball of Land Mars is the Fire Star Jupiter is the Wooden Star Saturn is the Soil Star Uranus is the Star of the god of Sky Neptune is the Star of the god of Sea
Greek versions Hermes Aphrodite Gaia Ares Zeus Kronos Ouranos Poseidon Hades (technically, I guess not anymore, sorry Hades, you're still a planet in our hearts)
A minor correction. The Roman gods weren’t based on Greek gods. They were their own thing originally, but as Rome became more and more involved in the Greek world, they sort of became melded together.
Curiosity: In portuguese Planet Earth is named "Planeta Terra". In spanish is named Tierra, and other romantic languages use the Roman goddess terra as name for our planet.
Unchi yes, Uranus is the latinization of Ouranos (which mans “heavens” or “sky”) Caelus is the Latin/Roman equivalents of that, similar to how God is “Theos” in Greek and “Deus” in Latin.
You are wrong earth and moon are names of goddesses. Earth comes from Eorthe/Eortha who was an Anglo Saxon(ancient English people) goddess and the word for earth. And Moon comes from Mōna who was also an Anglo Saxon goddess and the word for moon that’s actually how we get the word Monday it comes from Mōnan-dæg which means Moon’s-day
Ορέστης Μπέσιος In Hebrew the planets are named after either their properties or Semitic gods, "sun star" for Mercury, "the bright one" for Venus, "the red one" for Mars, "Sedek, Aramean/Assyrian god of justice" for Jupiter, "the seventh one" for Saturn, "little light" for Uranus, and "Rahav, Cannanite/Phoenician god of the Sea" for Neptune.
Well, in portuguese (and I assume other latin languages as well) Earth's name is actually Terra. Like "earth", "terra" has also the same ground/soil/land meaning
Too bad you didn't include Pluto's sister, Charon. The lore is that the discoverer wanted to name the satellite "Charon" after his wife, "Charlene", and it was only a coincidence that Charon is also the name of a Greek mythological figure, Charon, the ferryman of the dead, who was closely associated in myth with Hades or Plouton, whom the Romans identified with their god Pluto. Coincidentally, *again*, nearly four decades before Charon's discovery, science fiction author Edmond Hamilton referred to three moons of Pluto named Charon, Styx, and Cerberus in his 1940 novel Calling Captain Future, all of which became names for Pluto's moons. (Cerberus became Kerberos, the Greek version of Cerberus, since the name Cerberus was already taken by an asteroid.)
Pluto's Moon Charon is Named after the Bargeman of the Dead. Styx: The River of the Underworld (Surprisingly William Shatner wanted to name Stix, Vulcan: The Fire god Nephew of Hades and Kerberos, Romulus the legendary founder of Rome) Nix is named after Charon's Mother of the same name, The goddess of darkness. Kerberos is obviously named after that three-headed hell hound that either guarded the Gates of the Underworld or the Gates of Tartarus, where the Titans were imprisoned by Uranus. Lastly Hydra, well the Multi-Headed Dragon of Greek Mythology.
Uranus can also be seen in naked eye, but because it's too far away, it is commonly mistaken as a star, that's why ancient civilizations couldn't identify Uranus at sky.
Yeah, like why is the 9th month called "seven-ember", and the 10th month called "eight-ober", and the 11th month called "nine-ember", and the 12th month called "ten-ember"?
In India we named planets are named after days of the week Shani /Saturn (Saturday ) , Ravi/Sun (Sunday) Mangal/Tuesday (Mars) , Brihaspati/Venus (Thursday) etc
Uranus and Neptune were both discovered and named by Sir William Herschel, agreat eighteenth century Anglo-German astronomer and also a classical composer who wrote symphonies.
In greece we use the names of the ancient greek gods,instead of the roman ones.Mercury is Hermes,Venus is Aphrodite,Mars is Ares,Jupiter is Dias(aka zeus),Saturn is Kronos,Uranus is the same,as well as pluto(not a planet anymore😢)and Neptune is Poseidon.Earth is called Ge(Γή),from Gea,which if im correct,was the wife of Uranus(who represented the sky,and so Gea represented the earth).
dude are the same gods that ancient romans copied from greek mythology.and because latin alphabet is superior than greek and billion people using it so you cant wondering why the planets using the latin names today.
Very nice video Name Explain! One thing I was curious about is that you didn't mention the backward chronology of the deities as their planets got farther from the Sun. While not all of the planets fit the mold, the ones from Mars-Uranus form a perfect father-son chain which was only broken with the discovery of Neptune. As a big fan of the Hellenistic mythologies, I was sad it wasn't mentioned, but otherwise, this was a great piece!
I looked up the names of Pluto's moons, and I was mildly disappointed because they missed an opportunity to names one of Pluto's moons after Proserpina (Persephone.)
Name Explain, I wouldn't think that defining a planet as "smaller than a star" would ever work, because red dwarf stars many times are smaller than planets.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that the planets all have official astronomical names, but the Earth Moon and Sun are named colloquially in whatever language it be
TBH I think they should have instead named them after characters of Norse Mythology. Given that the outer planets are considered "ice giants", it would have been fitting for them to have names of the ice giants of the Norse. Pretty Sure Uranus would have been named Loki if that had happened.
Mars - The Bringer of War Venus - The Bringer of Peace Mercury - The Winged Messenger Jupiter - The Bringer of Jollity Saturn - The Bringer of Old Age Uranus - The Magician Neptune - The Mystic That are the real names if you understand :]
they were not exactly the same "people" (actually mythological figures), but the greek hegemony existed much longer before the roman empire came into power, so a lot of the greek mythos directly inspired/influenced the roman mythos. some of the roman "equivalents" are not 100% equal, especially less famous characters and chronologies.
Greek: *Hercules* Romans: "Hey can we copy your homework?" Greek: "Sure but just make sure you change it a bit so it doesn't look like you copied." Romans: *Heracles*
Maybe so, but Spanish and Russian are from two countries on opposite sides of a continent, and the two words sound nothing alike. No one would even guess the two terms have anything to do with each other. So seriously, explain what Gaelic is, what Gallic is, and why the two have such similar names, if there is any reason at all.
Well there's a few different reasons behind that, and Gallic IS admittedly closer to Gaelic than Spanish is to Russian, but reading your comment i see you are able to assume that I was merely trying to say "they're different languages", but my 3 week past self was feeling snippy apparently. Gallic/Gaulish was a celtic tongue spoken in northern France and southern Belgium Area, and Galician, which is sometimes refered to as gallic, is a Portugese dialect. Now Gaelic is a celtic tongue native to Ireland and Northwestern Britain which has similar linguistic ties to Gaulish, "Gallic", from the gauls who migrated to britain. But heres the thing, while yes they are both celtic languages and yes, they both sort of stem from the same root word, they have become two distinct tongues. Source: I speak Welsh, a celtic language, and i cannot understand a WORD of Irish or Scottish Gaelic, they are absolutely nothing alike to me.
In Greek, Earth is named after the Ancient Greek goddess Γη (Yee) or Gea and her husband was Uranus (Sky) I really enjoy your videos, thanks for the info.
In Greek the Planets of our Solar System have still the original names of the Greek Gods (Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Dias, Kronos, Uranos, Poseidon), except for Pluto, which is no more considered a planet plus its name is Latin. Our planet, Earth, in Greek is called Gee (pronounced like Yi), which comes from Gaia, Titan godess of Earth and mother of the Greek Gods.
Actually, "Pluto" is merely the Latinization of the Greek Plouton, another name for the God (I'm not sure if "Hades" originally referred to the god or the realm, and were used interchangeably). The Romans called this god Dis, which literally means "wealth" or "treasure".
Sun-day, Moon-day, Mars-day (Mardi), Mercury-day (Mercredi), Jupiter-day (Jeudi), Venus-day (Vendredi), and Saturn-day. I thought this video would have been about this..
Hey I'm pretty sure the earth will always have a better name in every language except Finnish. We call earth "maapallo" which literally translates to earthball/landball
It's either Neptune or Uranus that has a 90° tilt to its axis, meaning roughly that by our point of view, it rotates through its equator. Though obviously not really.
Uranus is a god tho in greek mythology its the god of the sky and teirra witch is another name of earth is the god of well, the earth! (Edit: sorry i thought you would say the same thing as you said for earth!)
Could you make a part 2 of the video and extend to the names of planets in Hindu mythology (and Islamic mythology if possible)? It's fascinating to think about how so many cultures arrived at naming the planets with gods and often with similar job descriptions of these gods (like mars being called Mangala who is also a Hindu God of war and is the template name for Tuesday in Hindi which apparently is the day mars is associated with)
Hey mate. Want to point out the word Earth, comes from erda/erde might be true, but may come from Arabic "ard/arda". Its a common usage in Turkish, Ard. It means the planet, also the surface, also the land, and sometimes as a country. For example "ard-u-rum" means "land of rums(romans). Its a city in Anatolia, still has the same name after Romans gone.
earth was called by a god names by different civilisation , some of which called it after dead gods that sacrifice themselves or was murdered by other other gods , like in aztec and norse mythology
Some of the names have less meaning in english, most name have latin roman origin, english being a derivation from latin has too much anglo influence, so some names dont make too much sense, in spanish we call earth "tierra" wich is terra, and so on, most names in spanish make more sense than english or any other language.
Think about it, guys. When aliens finally find us, do you want them to call us Earthlings...or Terrans? One of them is cool, the other is lame. That alone should be enough to change our planet's name.
After over a year the self loathing of calling Io Lo has finally been lifted off my shoulders.
Hurray!
I want that Pluto T-shirt!
True, but Terra does mean "ground" and/or "earth" in Italian.
Do "from where the stars get their names".
Lol😂
Cute?? Mars is the bloody god of war, and Phobos and Deimos are the gods of fear and terror! They're the most terrifying family ever!
And Doom took place on Phobos!
If the Mars family were a real family and beings they would be ferocious!
HA! I bet that Kurzgesagt could make even them look super cute ;)
Wherever there is war, fear and terror follows
Fable Reader also their mother is Aphrodite (Venus) pretty hurts
Honestly, I think the "moons" have cooler names than the planets in our solar system.
Abyssinia Empire well, theres more of them so more room for creativity.
RoScFan touché.
There's just more variety. Some names are pretty bad. Like Callirrhoe.
Abyssinia Empire true.
stfu
The Greek name for Earth is Γη which is derived from Γαία (Gaia), the personification of Earth in greek mythology.
Personified as a goddess. :)
How did we came to know names of the Lord?
@@prathmeshchandwale1506 Propaganda and the destruction of Classical civilization.
@@venus_envy I still didn't get it
@@prathmeshchandwale1506 Well, that's chiefly how Christianity was spread, violent destruction of the Greek/Roman/Egyptian/etc. pantheons, burning of libraries, razing of temples (not to mention stealing any ornaments used to decorate statues of gods and goddesses), rape and murder of priests and priestesses. You said "How did we came to know names of the Lord?", and if the Roman Empire had cracked down on Christianity instead of mostly ignoring it, we wouldn't know the name of this 'lord' you speak of (unless you aren't talking about Christianity, in which case ignore me). Also, if said crack down had happened, we wouldn't have been plunged into such a long dark age, and we'd be way ahead scientifically. Greek philosophers living at that time were sooo close to inventing the scientific method, but instead, we had to wait over a thousand years for Christianity's tyrannical, draconian grip on Europeans to be loosened. What a pity.
Pluto is only 2% bigger in diameter than Eris, and Eris is much more massive (by about 27%). Also, Ceres was considered a planet when it was first discovered and demoted on similar logic to Pluto. So I don't really get the Pluto should be a planet angle some people have. But I would have saved all of the dwarf planets for another video because Makemake is fun to say.
Came to comment exactly that.
I'm thinking it's more nostalgia than anything else. Several generations of people grew up learning that Pluto was the 9th planet.
Well, if the observations are correct, we soon may discover a ninth planet the size of Neptune.
Where? Out beyond Eris?
Pluto the (dwarf) planet and Pluto the animated dog were discovered/created the same year.
Actually, “Uranus” is the Roman sky personification. The Greek would be “Ouranos”, and the Romans also had “Caelus”, but they preferred to call him “Uranus”
Actually, some culture name our Earth as "Gaia" and our Moon as "Luna"
Ernest Jay thank you i was just about to comment this
Which culture?
Howard Wiggins Howard Wiggins Gia/Gaea is Greek, Luna is Roman. There are many Latin based languages today that use some form of the latin word "Luna" to refer to the moon. La Luna is Spanish, In Italian it is also La Luna, French its La Lune, Portugese its A Lua, in Catalan its La Lluna
Latin languages call Earth Terra and Moon Lua, Lune, Luna etc...
Lisa Gorska neat i didnt know that, i was never trained in Slavonic languages or the Cyrilic alphabet, mostly because there was never a Slavic presence in the caribbean, so its not offered at my school. But almost all the latin based ones are there, French, Spanish, Portugese, and a few Germanic languages, Danish, Dutch, and English. We even have a few blending of languages, like Portugese derived Papiamento, French derived Patrois, and English derived Crucian
I actually like the fact that Earth is a name with a simple meaning as opposed to the name of a God/dess-- it first reflects just how cozy our planet is to us in contrast to how exotic and strange these other planets are from our point of view.
Imagine if Pluto become a planet again? Our planets would be Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Hygiea, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Salacia, Gonggong, Makemake, Ixion, Chaos, Varuna, Varda, Eris, Sedna, and many others.
3:37 In protuguese the name of our planet is indeed "Terra" and is pronounced the same. So those who speaks portuguese and maybe spanish or other latin languages do call the earth by the right name
Actually, in Greek we call Earth as "Gi" (Γη), that derives from the greek goddess Gaia (Γαία), also since Romans and ancient Greeks had the same gods with different names, we (the Greeks) call the planets by their greek equivalents (Hermes, Aphrodite, Gaia, Ares, Zeus, Cronos, Uranus, Poseidon). Fan fact: we use the same word for the sky and the planet Uranus, we call both of them Ouranos (Ουρανός), since Uranus was the god of the sky.
What do you call the Sun and Moon?
@@fadadapple Sun = Ήλιος (Ilios) Moon = Σελήνη (Selini)
Is this true? Very cool
Uranus is actually visible to the naked eye. It just moves so slowly that its motion can't be noticed to distinguish it as a planet. And also pretty faint.
Also Pluto is not the largest dwarf planet, Eris is.
Eris is the most massive but it's slightly smaller (in diameter) than Pluto
@@koharaisevo3666 How does this make sense?
@@tomoliver2112 Eris is denser.
The Chinese of the names are quite interesting. Mercury=planet of water; Venus=planet of gold; Mars=planet of fire; Jupiter=planet of wood; and Saturn is the planet of earth. Seriously, Saturn is earth in Chinese.
Erm...Eris is a dwarf planet, and it's larger than Pluto. In fact, the discovery of a Kupier Belt Object larger than Pluto is one of the reasons astronomers finally got around to redefining "planet" despite the inevitable public backlash. Speaking of which, why is Pluto the only dwarf planet you covered? It's not even the first discovered--that honor goes to Ceres.
Probably cause pluto is the most popular
@@NamekFreakazoid Fair enough.
Why didn't they named Uranus after its Roman equivalent?! Today English-speakers wouldn't have a way to make fun of it with such an immature joke! *Caelus* by the way is the Roman equivalent.
sion8 Because fuck logic, I guess. 😂
+Metamorfoza Enigmatică
Well after watching it again at 6:25 the person that had the final word on what to call that new planet was a German! Which means that pronunciation of it in the English language wasn't taken into account. But, I feel the immature joke came way later! Frankly Cælus just looks and sounds better, although Hypercronius also sounds cool.
However, as I came to read later Uranus' name wasn't sent until the 1850's, WAY after astronomers confirmed it to be a planet and not just another star as many thought before, something this video didn't explained.
sion8 actually you can’t make fun of it. Because the correct pronunciation is “yoo-RAY-nus”.
Is there something wrong with Uranus?
sion8 actually the Roman's like the steal stuff so they were like...
Roman's : Hey can we steal your God's and Goddesse's names and make them our own?
Greek's : Yeah! Just change the names a little so they aren't the same
Roman's : Ok! So Zeus is going to be Jupiter atc atc
And that's how the planets were named!
Name explain: we are stuck on the earth.
Elon Musk: hold by beer.
Our Moon does have a Roman Mythological name = Luna (Selene in Greek Myth) who was seen as the counterpart of the Sun, Sol (Helias in Greek Myth)
Also I find interesting, Mercury, Venus and Mars are the children of Jupiter; who himself is the son of Saturn, who is the son of Caelus (Uranus in Greek Myth). Neptune, Pluto, Ceres and Vesta (the last three being dwarf planets) are all children of Saturn thus siblings of Jupiter.
In Chinese,
Mercury is the Water Star
Venus is the Golden Star
Earth is the Ball of Land
Mars is the Fire Star
Jupiter is the Wooden Star
Saturn is the Soil Star
Uranus is the Star of the god of Sky
Neptune is the Star of the god of Sea
You missed the opportunity at 6:20 for a CGP Grey reference (King George)
Greek versions
Hermes
Aphrodite
Gaia
Ares
Zeus
Kronos
Ouranos
Poseidon
Hades (technically, I guess not anymore, sorry Hades, you're still a planet in our hearts)
love a man who links sources and further reading in the description 🥺
A minor correction. The Roman gods weren’t based on Greek gods. They were their own thing originally, but as Rome became more and more involved in the Greek world, they sort of became melded together.
Curiosity: In portuguese Planet Earth is named "Planeta Terra". In spanish is named Tierra, and other romantic languages use the Roman goddess terra as name for our planet.
The Roman equivalent of Uranus is called Caelus.
Unchi yes,
Uranus is the latinization of Ouranos (which mans “heavens” or “sky”) Caelus is the Latin/Roman equivalents of that, similar to how God is “Theos” in Greek and “Deus” in Latin.
I think the first suggestion to call Saturn George was much better.
4:08
Some Egyptian dude: “Kyle, check it out! That planet is moving!”
Kyle: “Bro which one?”
Dude: “The big red one!”
And the name stuck.
Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have ring systems.
Yeah, but Saturn's ring system is the most prominent.
In Portuguese, it IS Planet Terra
In all Romance languages (Latin dialects).
Yes, you're right. And in English, it's called Earth.
oh hey tasty planet plan
Terra is Latin for Gaia in Greek; mother goddess of earth, and one of the primordial deities.
@@Haaklong in Spanish earth is tierra
In Italian Earth's name is actually Terra :D
Tierra in Spanish
Lore's Stuff Terra in Romanian Too
Same with Portugal!
Yes, you're right. And in English, it's called Earth. Same thing.
It's Pământ (earth) in Romanian, not Terra. Terra is not a Romanian word, they don't have double consonants.
0:24 I love how you don't exclude Pluto. Pluto will always be remembered
7:42: Not quite. Pluto is more like a title, meaning "The wealthy one". The actual roman name for the underlord was Orcus.
Name Explain, Sam O' nella, CGPgrey, Kurzgesagt, codys lab, and Reallifelore all upload on the same day? Is this my birthday?
Pluto isn't the biggest dwarf planet though.
So what's bigger?
Eris
Pluto's radius is about 26.9 km bigger than Eris
Eris is more dense tho meaning its more massive. but ya your right
This infograph is from 2006, before New Horizons makes measurement. Pluto's diameter now is 2379±0.4 km
You are wrong earth and moon are names of goddesses. Earth comes from Eorthe/Eortha who was an Anglo Saxon(ancient English people) goddess and the word for earth. And Moon comes from Mōna who was also an Anglo Saxon goddess and the word for moon that’s actually how we get the word Monday it comes from Mōnan-dæg which means Moon’s-day
Hey! The planets also have Greek god names! In Greece.
Ορέστης Μπέσιος yeah Romania God's are basically Greek gods with Roman names
BRØØÑØ Å Roman* Gods*
Ορέστης Μπέσιος In Hebrew the planets are named after either their properties or Semitic gods, "sun star" for Mercury, "the bright one" for Venus, "the red one" for Mars, "Sedek, Aramean/Assyrian god of justice" for Jupiter, "the seventh one" for Saturn, "little light" for Uranus, and "Rahav, Cannanite/Phoenician god of the Sea" for Neptune.
Hermes
Aphrodite
Gaia
Ares
Zeus
Kronos
Ouranos
Poseidon
Hades (formerly)
Mecha9 he meant Roman, not Romanian.
Well, in portuguese (and I assume other latin languages as well) Earth's name is actually Terra. Like "earth", "terra" has also the same ground/soil/land meaning
Too bad you didn't include Pluto's sister, Charon. The lore is that the discoverer wanted to name the satellite "Charon" after his wife, "Charlene", and it was only a coincidence that Charon is also the name of a Greek mythological figure, Charon, the ferryman of the dead, who was closely associated in myth with Hades or Plouton, whom the Romans identified with their god Pluto. Coincidentally, *again*, nearly four decades before Charon's discovery, science fiction author Edmond Hamilton referred to three moons of Pluto named Charon, Styx, and Cerberus in his 1940 novel Calling Captain Future, all of which became names for Pluto's moons. (Cerberus became Kerberos, the Greek version of Cerberus, since the name Cerberus was already taken by an asteroid.)
Pluto's Moon Charon is Named after the Bargeman of the Dead.
Styx: The River of the Underworld (Surprisingly William Shatner wanted to name Stix, Vulcan: The Fire god Nephew of Hades and Kerberos, Romulus the legendary founder of Rome)
Nix is named after Charon's Mother of the same name, The goddess of darkness.
Kerberos is obviously named after that three-headed hell hound that either guarded the Gates of the Underworld or the Gates of Tartarus, where the Titans were imprisoned by Uranus.
Lastly Hydra, well the Multi-Headed Dragon of Greek Mythology.
Please put "Sailor" before stating the name.
_Paws_ wow
sailor Uranus because it thought adding sailor to his name would be better🤣
_Paws_ also their mother is Aphrodite (Venus) pretty hurts
_Paws_ deadass get caner
Piggeh why you speak such disgusting words?
Uranus should have been named Herschel it would've been so cool.
Uranus can also be seen in naked eye, but because it's too far away, it is commonly mistaken as a star, that's why ancient civilizations couldn't identify Uranus at sky.
As I've been in Latin class, it's been interesting to learn the literal meanings of the months. You should really explain the meanings to everyone. :)
Yeah, like why is the 9th month called "seven-ember", and the 10th month called "eight-ober", and the 11th month called "nine-ember", and the 12th month called "ten-ember"?
carultch there used to be 10. January and February were later added, but put at the beginning of the year. Cba to go into further detail aha.
Richard Owen And Augustus and Julius Caesar renamed the fifth and sixth months (those were the literal meanings of their names) to July and August.
Caesar Mauricius indeed. :)
Juno spies on Jupiter and his mistresses.
In India we named planets are named after days of the week Shani /Saturn (Saturday ) , Ravi/Sun (Sunday) Mangal/Tuesday (Mars) , Brihaspati/Venus (Thursday) etc
Pluto is also the name of Mickey Mouses dog
That's because Walt Disney named Pluto the dog right after the Pluto the planet was discovered.
Are you 4
carultch was it like 2 hours after the planet was found?
Uranus and Neptune were both discovered and named by Sir William Herschel, agreat eighteenth century Anglo-German astronomer and also a classical composer who wrote symphonies.
In greece we use the names of the ancient greek gods,instead of the roman ones.Mercury is Hermes,Venus is Aphrodite,Mars is Ares,Jupiter is Dias(aka zeus),Saturn is Kronos,Uranus is the same,as well as pluto(not a planet anymore😢)and Neptune is Poseidon.Earth is called Ge(Γή),from Gea,which if im correct,was the wife of Uranus(who represented the sky,and so Gea represented the earth).
dude are the same gods that ancient romans copied from greek mythology.and because latin alphabet is superior than greek and billion people using it so you cant wondering why the planets using the latin names today.
Can you do a video on why is Turkey (the country) called Turkey? Like if agree.
I agree, he is capable of doing such a video.
And why Peru is Peru (perú is turkey in portuguese)
Turkey is named the founder of the modern country: Mustafa Attaturk
That's true, but where does his last name come from?
Martin Fawkes I always thought Turkey was named after the Ottoman Turks who lived in the region and founded the Ottoman Empire.
misconception, while Venus is the hottest planet on average, the hottest temp recorded on the surface of a planet was on Mercury.
Very nice video Name Explain! One thing I was curious about is that you didn't mention the backward chronology of the deities as their planets got farther from the Sun. While not all of the planets fit the mold, the ones from Mars-Uranus form a perfect father-son chain which was only broken with the discovery of Neptune. As a big fan of the Hellenistic mythologies, I was sad it wasn't mentioned, but otherwise, this was a great piece!
I looked up the names of Pluto's moons, and I was mildly disappointed because they missed an opportunity to names one of Pluto's moons after Proserpina (Persephone.)
In Portuguese, Earth's name is actually Terra. But the word does mean ground/land/dirt too.
The "earth" translation to Poruguese is "Terra"
I EAT CRAYONS In Spanish is Tierra
I greek is gaia
This video was so funny! Yet professional haha. The simplistic and humorous animation and drawings, and very informative. 🎶 awesome work!!!
The Galilean moons were discovered by Galileo but they were named by Simon Marius.
Name Explain, I wouldn't think that defining a planet as "smaller than a star" would ever work, because red dwarf stars many times are smaller than planets.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that the planets all have official astronomical names, but the Earth Moon and Sun are named colloquially in whatever language it be
Wow... you covered the Roman "Terra", but not the Greek "Gaea" - the origin of our word "geo" for earth / world.
TBH I think they should have instead named them after characters of Norse Mythology. Given that the outer planets are considered "ice giants", it would have been fitting for them to have names of the ice giants of the Norse. Pretty Sure Uranus would have been named Loki if that had happened.
Well fun fact Earth in Greek is Gi which is a short name for Gaia who was the mother Goddess, the mother of the Titans.
Bro used the Kerbal Space Program “space theme” for background music… love it.
Ceres is also named for a godess, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, but she was wrecked by jupiters gravity and never formed a full planet
Yes, Ceres was the goddess of harvest. The Greek equivalent was Demeter.
Casual KSP music in the back ground
I thought Eris was the largest dwarf planet. As it was the discovery of Eris that led to Pluto being demoted to dwarf planet.
Mars - The Bringer of War
Venus - The Bringer of Peace
Mercury - The Winged Messenger
Jupiter - The Bringer of Jollity
Saturn - The Bringer of Old Age
Uranus - The Magician
Neptune - The Mystic
That are the real names if you understand :]
Actually Venus is The Bringer of Love ❤
I definitely agree with this new definition of planet. Its the best way to get rid of all the double standards.
Why are Greek mythology god names changed in Roman mythology, but are the same people?
Cereza different language/culture equals different names.
they were not exactly the same "people" (actually mythological figures), but the greek hegemony existed much longer before the roman empire came into power, so a lot of the greek mythos directly inspired/influenced the roman mythos. some of the roman "equivalents" are not 100% equal, especially less famous characters and chronologies.
Cereza in a nut-shell the Romans just literally copied the Greek gods and gave them Roman names.
To avoid copyright
Greek: *Hercules*
Romans: "Hey can we copy your homework?"
Greek: "Sure but just make sure you change it a bit so it doesn't look like you copied."
Romans: *Heracles*
Remember buddy, Gaelic and Gallic are different things :)
What's the difference between Gaelic and Gallic?
The same difference as Spanish and Russian.
Maybe so, but Spanish and Russian are from two countries on opposite sides of a continent, and the two words sound nothing alike. No one would even guess the two terms have anything to do with each other.
So seriously, explain what Gaelic is, what Gallic is, and why the two have such similar names, if there is any reason at all.
Well there's a few different reasons behind that, and Gallic IS admittedly closer to Gaelic than Spanish is to Russian, but reading your comment i see you are able to assume that I was merely trying to say "they're different languages", but my 3 week past self was feeling snippy apparently.
Gallic/Gaulish was a celtic tongue spoken in northern France and southern Belgium Area, and Galician, which is sometimes refered to as gallic, is a Portugese dialect. Now Gaelic is a celtic tongue native to Ireland and Northwestern Britain which has similar linguistic ties to Gaulish, "Gallic", from the gauls who migrated to britain. But heres the thing, while yes they are both celtic languages and yes, they both sort of stem from the same root word, they have become two distinct tongues.
Source: I speak Welsh, a celtic language, and i cannot understand a WORD of Irish or Scottish Gaelic, they are absolutely nothing alike to me.
They both come from the same language family, right? The Celtic/Gallic family.
It's also interesting that the moons of Pluto are also named after characters from the underworlds of Greek and Roman mythology.
In Greek, Earth is named after the Ancient Greek goddess Γη (Yee) or Gea and her husband was Uranus (Sky)
I really enjoy your videos, thanks for the info.
To me Pluto will all ways be a planet no matter what other people say.
In Greek the Planets of our Solar System have still the original names of the Greek Gods (Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Dias, Kronos, Uranos, Poseidon), except for Pluto, which is no more considered a planet plus its name is Latin. Our planet, Earth, in Greek is called Gee (pronounced like Yi), which comes from Gaia, Titan godess of Earth and mother of the Greek Gods.
Actually, "Pluto" is merely the Latinization of the Greek Plouton, another name for the God (I'm not sure if "Hades" originally referred to the god or the realm, and were used interchangeably). The Romans called this god Dis, which literally means "wealth" or "treasure".
As a Minerva fan, I would have loved if Uranus was called Minerva, especially because then english speakers wouldn't make dumb jokes about its name.
From my knowledge, "Terra" is the oficial name, but "Earth" is very use in informal situations and anglo-saxon dialects.
Also, in Portuguese the Moon os called "Lua", which comes from "Luna" in latim.
Sun-day, Moon-day, Mars-day (Mardi), Mercury-day (Mercredi), Jupiter-day (Jeudi), Venus-day (Vendredi), and Saturn-day. I thought this video would have been about this..
5:10 Fun fact: _io_ is also the Esperanto word for "something". I mean, they're not wrong - that moon of Jupiter's is... something.
Io also means 'me' or I in Italian.
3:38 actually in Italian our planet is called _Terra_ (and I think the other Romance languages have very similar names too)
Giuseppe Dursi Terra in Portuguese, Terre in French and Tierra in Spanish
Hey I'm pretty sure the earth will always have a better name in every language except Finnish. We call earth "maapallo" which literally translates to earthball/landball
The big red one got me laughing so hard I was chocking and crying
It's either Neptune or Uranus that has a 90° tilt to its axis, meaning roughly that by our point of view, it rotates through its equator. Though obviously not really.
Someone get a petition going to rename Earth and Uranus to the Roman names they should have had from the beginning.
The romans had no idea Venus was the hottest planet, but the name still checked out.
Just for curiosity, in Portuguese and Spanish, Earth is called Terra/Tierra. Planet Earth is actually called Planeta Terra
Since scientist discoverd Ceres,Haumea,MakeMake,Eris pluto is now a dwarf planet present day
Uranus is a god tho in greek mythology its the god of the sky and teirra witch is another name of earth is the god of well, the earth!
(Edit: sorry i thought you would say the same thing as you said for earth!)
Pluto is NOT the largest dwarf planet, Eris is.
meanwhile every other planet not in our solar system gets a head-smashing-keyboard name
Could you make a part 2 of the video and extend to the names of planets in Hindu mythology (and Islamic mythology if possible)?
It's fascinating to think about how so many cultures arrived at naming the planets with gods and often with similar job descriptions of these gods (like mars being called Mangala who is also a Hindu God of war and is the template name for Tuesday in Hindi which apparently is the day mars is associated with)
"Pluto we still love you"
WTF ITS A FUCKING ROCK FLOATING IN SPACE HOW ARE IN LOVE WITH A ROCK?
Isn't Earth sometimes also called "Gaia", as in the ancient Greek mother earth figure?
Fun fact: 63 Earths can fit in Uranus
*64 if you relax*
In Italian we use "Terra" instead "Earth" so we call it using a Roman God name
Hey mate. Want to point out the word Earth, comes from erda/erde might be true, but may come from Arabic "ard/arda". Its a common usage in Turkish, Ard. It means the planet, also the surface, also the land, and sometimes as a country. For example "ard-u-rum" means "land of rums(romans). Its a city in Anatolia, still has the same name after Romans gone.
earth was called by a god names by different civilisation , some of which called it after dead gods that sacrifice themselves or was murdered by other other gods , like in aztec and norse mythology
Some of the names have less meaning in english, most name have latin roman origin, english being a derivation from latin has too much anglo influence, so some names dont make too much sense, in spanish we call earth "tierra" wich is terra, and so on, most names in spanish make more sense than english or any other language.
Tell us more about the Shakespeare-moons?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus
Is there an Oberon/Auberon and a Titania?
@Danny Phantom - Daniel Fenton Thanks.
lucky now more of the "planets" are named after the object designation number which is easy to explain
We really should go back to calling Uranus "George".
Adam yes
Uranus would be unique if it was named George because Uranus would be the only planet named after a king
Or urectum
Yeah, why is our planet not called terra?
Thom van Dalen it is called Terra in some languages
Thom van Dalen It is.
Think about it, guys. When aliens finally find us, do you want them to call us Earthlings...or Terrans? One of them is cool, the other is lame. That alone should be enough to change our planet's name.
Terra means "earth" in Latin, so many latin languages call our planet "Terra".
Giai, mother earth, so we are giains. But as we call it earth we're earthlings, so what do aliens call our planet and then its inhabitants