○○○ 12 Major Dieties ⪢⪢
Jupiter, Neptune, Pluton, Mars, February, Mercury, Volcano, Juno, Minerva, Venus, Diana and Bacchus
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○○○ Sunday ⪢⪢
In ancient Latin Sunday was Dies Solis for the Sun God but in the Christian era it was renamed Domonicas for lord's day.
Most of the Romance languages use a desendant of that but in English and Germanic languages it is still named for the sun.
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○○○ Wednesday ⪢⪢
The reason that _____ is spelled so funny is because it's actually Woden's day. Woden was the big guy of Germanic mythology and the creator of the universe and master of hunting and war while the Roman god Mercury was a mere messenger to the gods.
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○○○ Pluto ⪢⪢
When _____ was discovered in 1930, it was named the 9th planet of the solar system. More than 75 years later, that planetary status revoked and _____ was demoted to a dwarf planet.
→ revoke, demote
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○○○ 12 Olympians ⪢⪢
Zeus, Poseidon, Aid, Ares, Apollo, Hermes, Hephaestus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Dionysus #front #bookmark
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○○○ Monday ⪢⪢
Monday is moon day. Roman mythology had the moon goddess Luna which is why French has Lundi, Spanish Lunes, but here English substituted its own old English word for moon, Mona. #front
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