Re: copper and venus

Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
> Kid D wrote:
> > My "Oxford History of Chemistry" by William Brock asserts that copper
> > was associated with the worship of Venus. (Association of colors?)
> > Venus, the goddess, was associated with the appearance of the planet,
> > Venus, in the night sky. "The History of Religious Ideas" by Mircea
> > Eliade states that the Sumerian equivalent for Venus was named Inanna.
> > The Akkadian name was Asharte. The Egyptian name was Isis. The Greek
> > name was Aphrodite. The Saxon was Friff and the French was Vendredi.
>
> <spit!!!> The French name for Venus was *Vendredi*? Uh, no. The Romans
> used weeks of seven days named after the seven "planetary" bodies.
> "Venus' day" was "veneris dies" which in French became "vendredi", also
> known as *Friday*.
>
> > (Does anyone who knows foreign languages have anything of interest to
> > add regarding the names of the "goddess / planet"?)
>
> I'm not sure that there has been anything of interest thus far to add
> *to*. Most of your message has nothing to do with language. Then you
> passed on from Brock an arbitrary list of names a few random peoples had
> for the planet we call Venus. Two of those names were wrong--besides the
> "vendredi" thing, it's "Frigg", not "Friff", though maybe that was just
> a typo on your part. If you meant to be leading up to something
> linguistically interesting, I'm afraid I'm not seeing it.

I'm still wondering what a "math story" is.

Is that Brit, or something, for "word problem"?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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