Common Words and Names Inspired by Ancient Deities

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The influence of the Roman Empire is everywhere. The many gods of the Latin world influence everything because the Latin language spawned other languages, and a lot of our scientific terms deliberately use Latin. Latin and Greek mythology gave us the names of the planets and the months. But deities from polytheistic religions came into our language from all over. The days of the week come from Norse mythology in several languages, and Roman mythology in other languages. The gods of ancient Egypt influence modern language. Words we use every day that were taken from other languages have roots in religions we aren't all familiar with. They all begin to make sense if you know the stories and qualities of those gods.Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) knows more words than most of us, and she knows where they come from, too. She takes us on a tour of how the names of deities ended up in our modern English. ...