--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> Is there some record of Celtic, Slavic and Germanic names for the
planets
> and main stars? What were their names before Greco-Latin influence?
> So, there would a different string of 7 planets...
> Sun
> Moon
> Morning Mercury
> Evening Mercury
> Morning Venus (<*aus-? cf. Eosphoros, Aurvandill)
> Evening Venus (<*wespero-? Hesperos,Vesper)
> Mars
> Jupiter
> Saturn
>
I don't know a lot. The Balts and Slavs have myths centered on the
sun, moon, and Venus in various love triangles. As I wrote earlier,
the divine twin horse gods seem to me to equate to the rising and
setting Mercury.
A lot of the names for the morning Venus seem to be similar or
synonymous to words for "dawn" and "east". The Balts had Ausrine
(Lith) and Auseklis (Lett). Ausrine was also called Ausra, Ausera,
Aura, Auðra, Auska, Auðrinë, Aushrine, Austrine. Auseklis is also
called Ausekls, Auseklitis, Auseklits, Auseklins, Auseklinis,
Auseklenc, Auseklens, Ousekls, Ausjeklenis.
She equates to the Slavic dawn- and morning star- goddesses Zorya
Utrennyaya (dawn) and Zvezda Dennitsa (morning star). Like
Utrennyaya, she forms a triad with her sisters, the evening star and
the midnight. She was also similar to the Norse Aarvak, Germanic
Oestra, and Greek Eos.
Vakarine, Vakarinë, Wakarine is the Lithuanian goddess of he evening,
identified with the setting Venus. Her name is derived from Lith
vakar, 'evening'. She is also called Marios Zvaigzde, the 'Sea Star'.
In Latvia she is Rieteklis.
The Russians have the goddess Vechernyaya Zvezda `The Evening
Star', 'she of the aurora of Dusk/ Twilight', Pol. Wieczorniaia), and
the dawn-goddess Utrennyaya ('she of the aurora of Morning', Pol.
Dnieca).