Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast. In this episode,

Aestrologer, Demetra George, is joining me, and we're going to be talking about the ancient

myths associated with the planets and the gods and goddesses that came to be associated with those planets, and also how these names were originally established by the philosopher Plato and his students in the fourth century B.C.

Hey Dimitra, thanks for joining me.

It's great to be back on the astrology podcast and talking ancient astrology with you.

Yeah, ancient astrology and ancient myths, because the last episode we did together was on the Mesopotamian goddess Anana who was connected with Venus

and we talked about how the myths associated with Venus were very relevant in terms of the

meaning of that planet in astrology.

And so here we're back again to talk about that in a broader sense

through the lens of both the Greek as well as the Mesopotamian myths? Yes and the whole study of cross-cultural myths and how different cultures often have the gods who carry similar attributes is a fascinating study to untangle as to whether it comes

through actual transmission of cultures interacting with another and sharing

their knowledge or whether it comes possibly from a more union concept of that the gods represent the basic arche

forces or qualities forces of the psyche within the human being and that all cultures will have

manifestations of similar gods with similar attributes.

And so to what extent the whole study falls between actual tangential transmission or something that exists more on the level of the collective

unconscious is like a very rich area of study.

Yeah and it's an area of study that you've done, put a lot of your focus on over the course of your

career both in terms of mythology and in terms of astrology.

And you had an even older connection though with myths in terms of how you grew up right?

Right, you know, both of my grandmothers were Greek and they formed part of my, I lived with both of them when I was young and those were my bedtime stories.

Okay, so yeah, that's a, you have a deep like intimate connection with them then that sort of flows through your life is woven through your life in different ways.

Well, so for the purpose of this episode, we're going to focus on the myths of the planets, and I wanted to just quickly set up an overview of the premise of our discussion, which is that early in the Greek tradition there weren't names for the planets like it didn't always exist in Greek literature where there were names for these wandering stars.

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