Dante Sawyer
Troubadour
Joe the Gnarled- Thanks for the link man, it's fantastic!
Actually ever since people have been able to use telescopes to actually resolve planetary bodies as more than specks of light on the night sky, and probably long before that, people have thought that life existed on other planets. Whilst not believing in aliens per se they did believe that similar forms of life were around on other planets and this was thought to be the case right up until till the viking landers we sent to Venus that proved it to be an acidic uninhabitable place, and then we designed telescopes powerful enough to see how most planets and moons were infact just balls of rock or gas and the idea of life on most planets began to fade from public opinion.
My father had a book about what other planets were like and it showed an illustration of dinosaurs! on venus! Really dissapointed that was not the case! As a bit of an aside I recall that the vatican has even made some decree or other about whether God loves aliens in the same way he loves humans, can't remember what was decided though.
And I do agree with you on having a shortened name for the planet will be used in every day conversation, I was just pointing out that a group of people might have a longer more officious name for it!
Joe the Gnarled- Thanks for the link man, it's fantastic!
This link 20000-NAMES.COM: Classical element names, page 1 of 1--meaning, origin, etymology may be useful. It has a list of words that have roots in other languages and translate to one of the four elements (earth, fire, wind and water). You may want to use the earth words as part of, or the root word for the name of your world.
TIT (Тит): Russian form of Roman Latin Titus, meaning "fire; to burn" or "straining."
Maybe i'll use Terranus... The world off Terranus! A play of terrain.
You mean Snorri Sturluson? He was Icelander, which could be considered Norse.The 'Norse' mythologies were based on a document that may have been Norse, in very bad condition. The man who wrote them out was Christian too, so Norse mythology isn't actually norse.
Must resist making jokes about tearing an anus...