Cosmology class: Planet names...

[Mwalimu-G]

How did the planets get their names?
All of the planets, except for Earth, were named after Greek and Roman gods and godesses. Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury were given their names thousands of years ago. The other planets were not discovered until much later, after telescopes were invented. The tradition of naming the planets after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses was carried on for the other planets discovered as well. Mercury was named after the Roman god of travel. Venus was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Mars was the Roman god of War. Jupiter was the king of the Roman gods, and Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture. Uranus was named after an ancient Greek king of the gods. Neptune was the Roman god of the Sea. Pluto, which is now classified as a dwarf planet, was the Roman god of the underworld. The name Earth is an English/German name which simply means the ground.
-Cool Cosmos

 

[kijanamrefu]

Does anyone know what names different Kenyan tribes called the planets and stars?

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Does anyone know what names different Kenyan tribes called the planets and stars?

My Gikuyu people didn't know of no planets. The only things they recognized in the firmament were the sun (riua), stars (njata) and the moon (mweri). I stand to be corrected @Meria .

 

[kijanamrefu]

My Gikuyu people didn't know of no planets. The only things they recognized in the firmament were the sun (riua), stars (njata) and the moon (mweri). I stand to be corrected @Meria .

A certain mzee told me of Njata ya Njathi which upon further research, turned out to be Sirius, a star which a lot of other African tribes recognise.

Apparently, there's also a 50 year Jubilee that was observed by elders, similar to a lot of other African tribes.

Sirius's cycle in the sky is what led to the creation of the 365 day calendar and is as old as the pyramids as a time counting system.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

A certain mzee told me of Njata ya Njathi which upon further research, turned out to be Sirius, a star which a lot of other African tribes recognise.

Apparently, there's also a 50 year Jubilee that was observed by elders, similar to a lot of other African tribes.

Sirius's cycle in the sky is what led to the creation of the 365 day calendar and is as old as the pyramids as a time counting system.

Interesting!

 

[Platformer]

Hyo ni uogo

 

[Doc oga]

My Gikuyu people didn't know of no planets. The only things they recognized in the firmament were the sun (riua), stars (njata) and the moon (mweri). I stand to be corrected @Meria .

With Jomo Kenyatta Foundation syllabus we may never know what was once Ancient knowledge of our ancestors. Niko sure we had names for all those planets probably even as far a Sirius 3 suns.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

With Jomo Kenyatta Foundation syllabus we may never know what was once Ancient knowledge of our ancestors. Niko sure we had names for all those planets probably even as far a Sirius 3 suns.

Something should have come down through folklore.

 

[Doc oga]

Something should have come down through folklore.

However most of us born in the 80s & 90s know little about Our culture and language which most of it was written and twisted by our colonisers.

 

[Susskid]

Does anyone know what names different Kenyan tribes called the planets and stars?

In Meru,Venus the Moring Star is called Rukunku

 

[Mwalimu-G]

In Meru,Venus the Moring Star is called Rukunku

Rukunku si dust?

 

[Susskid]

Rukunku si dust?

Hapo sijui but we call dust tiiri or muujuu...Imenti

 

[Ngima ya Mûhîa]

My Gikuyu people didn't know of no planets. The only things they recognized in the firmament were the sun (riua), stars (njata) and the moon (mweri). I stand to be corrected @Meria .

You are wrong. They had a name for Venus which was 'Njata ya Kiwarii'

 

[Mwalimu-G]

You are wrong. They had a name for Venus which was 'Njata ya Kiwarii'

Proof that it is Venus? Why they call a planet a star?

 

[Ngima ya Mûhîa]

Proof that it is Venus? Why they call a planet a star?

Tiga urimu mwarimu. Andû a gene matioî difference ya planet na star. Zote walikuwa wanaziita njata. Hata SAA hii MTU ambaye hakuwa keen in science lessons hawezi tell the difference. For me, I can tell the position of Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn at any given time. I can also identify several stars, constellations and galaxies

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Hapo sijui but we call dust tiiri or muujuu...Imenti

Interesting. Those two in another language are soil and silt (especially that suspended in turbid water).

 

[Susskid]

Soil

Interesting. Those two in another language are soil and silt (especially that suspended in turbid water).

Soil is Muthetu in Imenti

 

[The.Black.Templar]

There was also the dreaded sighting of a comet, that usually signalled a migration of a whole tribe because it meant a great famine was in the offing

 

[Ngima ya Mûhîa]

There was also the dreaded sighting of a comet, that usually signalled a migration of a whole tribe because it meant a great famine was in the offing

Ancient people feared eclipses and comets. They were always taken as bad omens

 

[Doc oga]

Ancient people feared eclipses and comets. They were always taken as bad omens

1.Probably the great deluge(Flood ) was caused by an asteroid.
2. An eclipse caused by the great planet of Nibiru as it orbited the sun coming very close to the earth bringing with it massive tidal wave a resulting to the great deluge( Noah's Flood).