Why is planet earth called earth? all the others are named after mythical figures.?
Answers:
Earth is the only planet whose name is not derived from Greek/Roman mythology. Earth comes from Old English and Germanic. In Roman Mythology, the goddess of the Earth was Tellus - the fertile soil, while the Greek goddes was Gaia, terra mater - Mother Earth.
Because the earth (or land) on this planet holds us out of the water. That's my guess
don't know it's a mythtory to me
Earthlings created the mythology, and named the planets.
Personally I call it Persephone . . . it is only you other weirdoes that call Persephone Earth :)
the Greek called after theirs gods( venus, jupiter, saturn. mercury , earth and go on
Earth is named after the soil, because ancient people could not concieve of this being a planet. Now, gazing at the sky, they saw those wandering start (planet means wanderer) and figured there must be gods or something to be abvle to go around like that.
Mars must have been the god of war, because it was red, like blood. Venus must be the godess of beauty because it is so bright. Mercury must have been the god of speed, because it moves so quickly in the sky, and so on.
When Uranus and Neptune were discoverd, that practice was well established and was therefore kept.
About this element thing, this comes from the Greek philosopher Empedocles, who thought that everything was made from 4 basic elements in different proportions: earth, air, water and fire.
How he came up to this conclusion is lost to us as very little of his teaching survived -- it was mostly reported by others philosophers -- but I would think that he might have been drunk that day. But that is only my opinion.
Good question. It wasn't always called Earth. I would assume that Earth is a relatively modern name which evolved like most other names. The thing about the other planets is that the Greeks who are well into mythical things were the first astronomers and their names stuck and most are in use today. The new astronomers are lacking in ideas and tend to name new discoveries in space TN87 or such rubbish.
Perhaps it should be called water, as there is more area covered by water than earth.
The planet Earth was first called " Terra ' the name given to a mythological god for being named ' The God of the Earth '.
In English it is called Earth. That's because when the gods came down they named it that, and later we named the planets after the gods. Some people have different names for the planets, which is why the gods hate them and they are evil.
I don't know, but I'd prefer anything like planet Bob as opposed to naming them after any mythological god they can think of.
because if we called it dirt instead the planet may just take offence and start another mass extinction,just as it did when one day little jonnny the apatosaurus said to his mother "ma,this place is shat and i want something nice to eat and some clean water and for that volcano to stop erupting".
250 million years later his remains were found buried under 200 feet of sedimentary rock.
his mother was never seen again.
dont dis the earth,its the only one we have.
First of all the plants are named after the Roman gods. Now in Roman mythology Earth created Uranus and had kids which included the titans, Saturn was a titan. The titans had the gods and so forth, so earth is named after a mythical figure.
Question - How did planet earth get its name?
The word Earth originates from the Middle English word, erthe, which came from Old English eorthe; akin to Old High German erda. This then traces back to the Greek, eraze from the Hebrew erez, meaning ground.
Planet Earth is our home, and home is where the hearth is, or in cockney English 'ome is where the 'earth is. In due course 'earth became just Earth, but properly speaking it is still pronounced "arth".
Its a very good question. I wonder if the answer is in any religious writtings? Ask the question in the religious section and see what response you get :)
Actually it's called Terra, but everyone nicknames it Earth.
tell me when u get the answer .
it is belived that the greeks and romans named the planets
Earth is called Terra (Ge)
Now If you believe in what the Greeks say, or do you believe what the Romans say?
Greeks believed that the planets etc were of different religions.
The Romans like everything else took it for there own.
Another words the both named them after gods. But interestingly the don't mean exactly the same.
Supposedly Terra (GE) married Coelum.
The Greeks conceived of Olympus, their highest mountain, on the boundaries of Macedonia and Thessaly, rising nearly ten thousand feet.They thought that was home of the greater gods. There Zeus, afterwords identified with Jupiter, had his palace, and presided over all gods.
Though these Gods of the world's dawn have fled from earth.
Its a very interesting but deep subject, but its beyond me to explain every God and planet way back in the Golden age. Perhaps this is why so many people are upset with the reclassification of Pluto.
Oh Siu02uk please do. I may give you more info :)
The earth IS named after an ancient Goddess, called Eartha, a mother Goddess. However I can't recall which civilisation she belonged to at present.
The answers post by the user, for information only, UKQnA.com does not guarantee the right.