Moons of other planets all have names... just the one from earth is just called moon.
Anyone have suggestions how we should name it ?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@PhoenixPhail LOL! Not so.
It is not "dirt" but "earth" - the valuable top-soil that supports life.
Whatever the etymology of the planet's name, the German word for Earth, or ground, is [i]erde[/i], and the ancient Germanic deity [i]Erde[/i] was the Earth Goddess - giver of life and fertility (probably of crops rather than mere humans). Somewhat similar ideas seem to have existed in other ancient religions.
{Erde also appears in Wagner's [i]The Ring of the Niebelung[/i], as the mother of the illegitimate Valkyri sisters by Wotan; but his working of the story and characters in the opera was all his own, based only very loosely on a mixture of German, Scandinavian and Icelandic folk traditions.}
It is not "dirt" but "earth" - the valuable top-soil that supports life.
Whatever the etymology of the planet's name, the German word for Earth, or ground, is [i]erde[/i], and the ancient Germanic deity [i]Erde[/i] was the Earth Goddess - giver of life and fertility (probably of crops rather than mere humans). Somewhat similar ideas seem to have existed in other ancient religions.
{Erde also appears in Wagner's [i]The Ring of the Niebelung[/i], as the mother of the illegitimate Valkyri sisters by Wotan; but his working of the story and characters in the opera was all his own, based only very loosely on a mixture of German, Scandinavian and Icelandic folk traditions.}
PhoenixPhail · M
@ArishMell 👍