Mercury was named after the Roman god of travel.

God names for planets. The name Uranus is a reference to the Greek god of the sky Uranus. Mars was the Roman god of War. The Romans named the brightest planet.

10 rows Largest and most massive of the nine planets. Those were the planets that the ancient Romans could see in the sky without a telescope. Roman God of Farming.

Sumerian astronomers named the sun moon and five visible planets Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn after their great gods. In Sumerian religion the most powerful and important deities in the pantheon were the seven gods who decree. Why is Uranus named after a Greek god.

The names are heavily influenced by Roman Greek and Norse gods but plenty of names should fit other cultures as well. Seven planetary deities The number seven was extremely important in ancient Mesopotamian cosmology. Saturn the solar systems second-largest planet takes 29 Earth years to make a full revolution of the Sun and is named for the god of agriculture.

Ive also given all of the names a title like god of war. The tradition of naming the planets after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses was carried on for the other planets discovered as well. This planet is named after the creator of the sky God Uranus or Ouranos which means sky in the Greek language.

He was the father of Cronus and the Titans as well as of the Cyclopes. All of the planets except for Earth were named after Roman gods and goddesses. I call Uranus a modern planet because being unseen by the naked eye this planet was unknown to the ancients.