178. Uranus
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered why the planets in our solar system are all named after Roman deities, except two of them? One of those exceptions is Earth. The other is Uranus.
Content note: there are mentions of Ancient Greek and Roman deities and their terrible sexual behaviours and violent vengeance. Also category B and C swears.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Salzman, fly language to the moon and let language |
| 0:09.3 | play among the stars, then call language in because it's dinner time. Today we're going |
| 0:13.6 | on a journey to space, space, space, without taking a single step. |
| 0:19.6 | Content note, there are mentions of ancient Greek and Roman deities and their terrible |
| 0:24.0 | sexual behaviours and violent vengeance. Also brace yourself for one category B |
| 0:29.3 | swear and one category C swear. The kind of swears you might encounter in a |
| 0:33.8 | fairly mainstream sitcom or that you might use with your colleagues about your |
| 0:37.5 | boss but not to your boss. Before that, now would be a great time to sign up to |
| 0:42.9 | join the Illusionverse. Go to theillusionist.org-donate and for as little as two |
| 0:47.7 | American dollars per month, you support this independent podcast during these |
| 0:52.0 | current precarious times for media and entertainment, independent and not. And you |
| 0:57.1 | get fortnightly live streams, which includes soothing dictionary readings and |
| 1:00.9 | you get the company of your fellow Illusionorts in the lively and nurturing |
| 1:05.1 | Illusionverse Discord community and in a limited time offer, you can submit |
| 1:10.8 | words and phrases that you would like me to record for you to use as your phone |
| 1:15.0 | text tone or alarm or doorbell or little message of affirmation. Sign up to the |
| 1:21.6 | Illusionverse and theillusionist.org-donate by the 31st of August 2023 to get your |
| 1:27.6 | choice of me shouting you awake in the morning. On with the show. |
| 1:41.0 | If you ever wondered why the planets in our solar system all named after Roman |
| 1:46.0 | deities except for two of them. One of those two exceptions is earth, which means, |
| 1:51.9 | well, earth. And it doesn't fit the system because it wasn't formally |
| 1:57.2 | discovered by humans. It was where they were already were. So when they started |
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