XPost: alt.pagan, soc.history.ancient, alt.astrology   
   XPost: soc.culture.italian   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Were the planets named after the Roman pagan deities   
   or the other way around?   I have seen a YouTube video   
   that equated the deities to the planets (and claimed   
   that the planets moved around in the past, but I   
   don't believe that).   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "It is time for you to laugh instead of crying   
   Yes it's time for you to laugh so keep on trying" (The Kinks)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)