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user-inactivated  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Image of Charon

Rower of the River Styx! Represented ominously in various stories. Naming the celestial bodies after classical mythology was such a brilliant idea. I wonder who came up with it. I wonder what the Babylonians called Mars.