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Why are the planets named after gods?

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Why are the planets named after gods?

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Greeks noticed that the planets moved across the skies faster than the stars and proposed that they were Gods, going about on the business of Gods. At the time it was probably just as much whimsy as a real belief that the Gods were driving their chariots across the skies, but as with most religious beliefs, some people will be quite literal.

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