[loucon]

No, its a Latin thing!

Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter were named after Roman Gods. Uranus was named after a Greek God. Pluto was named after a Disney character. Go figure.

[editor-surveyor]

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The “us” ending is the latin equivalent of the Greek “os.”

They all had the same basic pantheon of fake ‘gods.’

They all used the same basic legend of the sungod, thus they wanted to moe our savior’s birth date to the winter solstice, rather than the beginning of fall when he actually was born.