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This Greek mythology pictures page and the entire website are excerpted from You and the Universe, a handmade, individualized Fine Art book on astrology, Greek mythology, and astronomy through which is woven each recipient's complete astrological reading. The names of the planets of our solar system come from Roman gods whose attributes were identified with the planet now bearing their name. Roman gods were often derivative of the Greek mythology pantheon with similar attributes. Roman, Greek and Assyrian mythology names for the planets as gods are given below. |
| Assyrian name | Roman name | Greek name | description |
| Shamash | Sol | Apollo | god of the Sun, law, the arts, music, healing, medicine, led the 9 Muses |
| Sin | Diana | Artemis | goddess of the Moon and the hunt; twin sister to Apollo by Zeus and Leto |
| Tellus | Gaia | mother Earth and first of all the gods, gave birth to and married Uranus | |
| Nebo/Nabu | Mercury | Hermes | messenger god, god of thought, speech, trickery, thieves and commerce |
| Ishtar | Venus | Aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty, wife of Hephaestus; "Aphrodite" means "foam born," from the foam of Uranus' castrated genitals Saturn cast into the sea |
| Nergal | Mars | Ares | god of war; son of Zeus and Hera, but hated by Zeus; lover of Venus |
| Marduk | Jupiter | Zeus | king of the gods; god of thunder & lightning, defeated Saturn and the Titans |
| Ninurta | Saturn | Chronos | Jupiter's father; ruler of Titans; ate his children; castrated his father, Uranus |
| Uranus | Ouranos | Saturn's father; Gaia's husband; god of sky & heavens, castrated by Saturn | |
| Neptune | Poseidon | Jupiter's brother; god of the sea; created horses; greedy and quarrelsome | |
| Pluto* | Hades | brother of Jupiter and Neptune; god of death; lived in Hades, the underworld | |
| *Dis was actually the Roman counterpart of Hades, god of the dead; Pluto was the Roman god of wealth and counterpart of the Greek Plouton, for the riches found under the Earth's surface. explore or order your Greek mythology pictures here! | |||
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