Why is everything on Venus named after women?
Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Venus was commonly associated with the Greek goddess Aphrodite and the Etruscan deity Turan, borrowing aspects from each. Additionally, Venus has been compared to other goddesses of love, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli in Aztec mythology, Kukulcan in Maya mythology, Frigg and Freyja in the Norse mythos, and Ushas in Vedic religion. Ushas is also linked to Venus by a Sanskrit epithet ascribed to her, vanas- (“loveliness; longing, desire”), which is cognate to Venus, suggesting a Proto-Indo-European link via the reconstructed stem *wen- “to desire”.[1] Another interesting association with Venus is the Latvian god Auseklis, whose name derives from the root aus-, meaning “dawn”. Auseklis and Mēness, whose name means “moon”, are both Dieva dēli (“sons of God”).
