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Originally Posted by dwnielsen
1) We are using these names in an English setting (for us), and have so far used the same language.
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But of course speakers of other languages have their own names for the planets that are observable with the naked eye. Romance speakers use their own versions of the Latin and Greek names. In a global age, isn't it better to have names that are standard across languages and sampled from many languages?
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Originally Posted by dwnielsen
2) Very little is known about Rongorongo, although it is interesting, so other connected names cannot be given in a way that might have even made sense to the Rapa Nui.
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Rongorongo is something of a red herring, since it's an undeciphered system of petroglyphs. Just talk to some Rapa Nui people, and they'll
tell you their mythology. So connected names are available, if required. The reference to Easter Island links to the Easter discovery date for Makemake.
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3) These island cultures did little to advance astronomical science, not that this is the only measure of poetical imagination.
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The were extraordinarily adept star-navigators, however, if you want to search for a justification in astronomical science.
Grant Hutchison