Re: CHAT: Visible planets (was: Corpses)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 11, 2003, 2:14 |
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:32:23PM -0500, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> >So they recognize the Morning/Evening star but don't worship it?
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> No, they recognize that it is the same god or goddess (don't know which
> gender yet), simply appearing at a different time of the night, and they do
> worship it.
Right; you did include Venus in your list. For some reason I had it in
my head that the morning/evening star was Mercury. Which somehow got
included in the traditional seven planets (and thus the week) despite
the difficulty of observing it.
-Mark