All under a false sky. What is that about?
Last time I talked about what Kusanali might be looking for through getting her people to randomly research things about Teyvat. Overall it will be about toppling or at least protecting herself and her people from Celestia but specifically it could deal with the idea that Celestia is alien to Teyvat.
Whether or not this actually is the case still has a long way to go and much more evidence left to discover but if it is then I have another idea I want to run by you guys.
So the Seven Classical Planets. Each planet (including the sun and moon because that's how ancient peoples roll) has a representative god. Right now as far as I can tell we have the Sun representative Phanes - who is related to Zoroastrian Mithra and then Babylonian Shamash - and Istaroth the Genshin name for Ars Goetia Astaroth from the Greek that came from Phoenician Astarte and then Babylonian Ishtar who represents Venus.
Side note: You'd think that Venus would mean Aphrodite but old religions are funny that way so while Aphrodite is Astarte they also came up with Ashtaroth. Astaroth is a demon of chaos. War is pretty chaotic right? It could be that Astaroth is derived from how Astarte is both the goddess of love and war and Aphrodite actually has a few forms that work with that. The Greeks have a thing called ephithets for how a god is being worshipped. So War God Aphrodite is called Aphrodite Areia and was the version that was worshipped in Sparta because of course Sparta.
Anyway that leaves us with Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Mercury. Of course the Greek versions of some of these are easy: Jupiter = Zeus, Saturn = Cronus, Mars = Ares and Mercury = Hermes. The Moon one is less known but it's Men (long e) in Greek which is Zoroastrian Mangha and Babylonian Sin.
Side note: These are awesome names. You can remember them like this: Men who like Mang(h)a have committed Sin. And sin is great ain't that right boys?
Ok back on track. So I still haven't figured out if any of these Greek gods inspired any Ars Goetia demons like Astaroth but there's another thing. We're told Phanes descended and created shining shades of itself. Phanes and Istaroth can relate to these planets but we're told Phanes made 4 shades so that totals 5. What about the other 2 then? Who wouldn't make the cut and why?
Any ideas guys?
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