Everything in life should have a name. Otherwise, how to talk about it, how to discuss it? How to call, studying this or that phenomenon or object? Cities and villages, rivers and seas, food and toys, furniture and transport have names. We all know perfectly well that everyone and the planets have a name. Our Earth is also a planet. But why is she called that? When and who gave it such a name?

In fact, before there was no division into stars and planets. All celestial bodies were called stars, and they were given appropriate names. Let's take Venus, for example. Planet? Planet, and what. And her name is Venus, which means "morning star". This has been going on ever since. But then there were so many so-called "stars", they were divided into dozens of varieties, and it became difficult for astronomers. There was a need to rename some groups of celestial bodies in a new way in order to distinguish them. This is how a group of planets appeared, but their names remained the same.

So, the Earth in its international designation as a planet is not even called that at all. Its official name is Terra (Terra, Tellus…) Remember common expressions like “terra incognita” and so on. Thus, it is much easier to study the interstellar world anywhere on our planet by scientists from different countries speaking completely different languages. But we ourselves call our planet Earth. Why is that?

The fact is that once people did not know anything about the planets and sincerely believed that our Earth was flat. Remember the pictures from books on history, geography, astronomy. Variants of human representations were different. Some believed that the Earth is a disk held by three elephants. Others - that this is a flat body located on the shell of a sea turtle standing in the water. Or even that it is carried across the ocean from place to place by a huge whale, but the shape of its habitat in the beliefs of different peoples of different times remained unchanged: flat, thin, wide and ... low. And here it is, the main word, from which the name of our planet originates. The fact is that in the common Slavic group of languages, the root of the word Earth means the following: “bottom”, “floor”, “below”, “soil”, “earth”. That is, if people imagined our planet as a kind of huge "earth pancake", then, accordingly, that is exactly what they called it, in the meaning: "the earth below", "the soil under their feet", "a flat low plate".

By the way, the British are not far from us in this. In English, Earth is Earth. And now we look at the meaning of the word erda, from which the name was formed. This is exactly - "soil", "soil". And, by the way, it was the English name of our planet that has been original since the fifteenth century. The rest of the experts used the concepts of Ancient Rome and Greece to name this celestial body.

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Our planet is called the Earth, sometimes called the Blue Planet and the World.

origin of name

The name "Earth" comes from the transformation of the old common Slavic word "zem". In translation, it means "bottom", "soil" or "floor". The planet got its name because it is made up of soil and water. And the entire inhabiting world of the Earth can exist only due to what grows in the earth and thanks to water.

The Earth is called the blue planet because it looks like a blue ball from space because of its large water spaces and atmosphere.

The name of the planet among other peoples

In English-speaking peoples, the word for Earth is Earth. The term is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "erda", which means "soil" or "foundation". The name of the planet "Earth" was first used in the 1400s. This name of the planet is the only name that was not borrowed from Greco-Roman mythology.

In Latin, our planet is called Terra, translated "clay", "soil".

Various ancient peoples tried to animate the planet, so they named it after certain gods. For example, the Aztecs gave the name Tonantzin ("our mother"), the Greeks - Gaia, and the Chinese - Hou-Tu. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Earth is even compared with a man, namely with the god Geb.

Who? And why?
What the wiki says:
The name Earth was formed from the common Slavic ancient root "zem-", which meant bottom, floor, earth.

In English, Earth is Earth. This name originated from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word erda, which meant earth or soil. In Old English this became eorthe and then in Middle English to erthe. As the name of the planet Earth was first used around 1400. In English, this is the only planet name that was not taken from Greco-Roman mythology.

The standard astronomical sign of the Earth is a cross outlined by a circle. This symbol has been used in various cultures for various purposes. Another version of the symbol is a cross on top of a circle (), a stylized orb; was used as an early astronomical symbol for the planet Earth.

In many cultures, the Earth is deified. She is associated with a goddess, a mother goddess, called Mother Earth, often depicted as a goddess of fertility.

The Aztecs called the Earth Tonantzin - "our mother". Among the Chinese, this is the goddess Hou-Tu (), similar to the Greek goddess of the Earth - Gaia. In Norse mythology, the Earth goddess Jord was the mother of Thor and the daughter of Annar. In ancient Egyptian mythology, unlike many other cultures, the Earth is identified with a man - the god Geb, and the sky with a woman - the goddess Nut.

In many ancient cultures, the Earth was considered flat, so, in the culture of Mesopotamia, the world was represented as a flat disk floating on the surface of the ocean. Assumptions about the spherical shape of the Earth were made by the Greek philosophers; This view was held by Pythagoras. In the Middle Ages, most Europeans believed that the Earth was spherical, as witnessed by thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas. Before the advent of space flight, judgments about the spherical shape of the Earth were based on the observation of secondary signs and on the similar shape of other planets.

Technological progress in the second half of the 20th century changed the general perception of the Earth. Before space travel, the Earth was often depicted as a green world. Fantast Frank Paul may have been the first to depict a cloudless blue planet (with clearly defined land) on the back of the July issue of Amazing Stories in 1940.

In 1972, the crew of Apollo 17 took the famous photograph of the Earth, called "Blue Marble" (Blue Marble).

A picture of the Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a huge distance from it (6 billion kilometers (circled in blue)), prompted Carl Sagan to compare the planet with a pale blue dot (Pale Blue Dot).

We managed to take a picture [from outer space], and if you look into it, you can see a dot. That's her. This is our house. This is us. Everyone you know is here, everyone you love, everyone you've ever heard of, every person that's ever been born has lived here. Here are all our joys and misfortunes, thousands of true creeds, ideologies and economic doctrines. Every hunter and gatherer, every hero and coward, every founder and destroyer of civilizations, every monarch and commoner, all young lovers, all hopeful children, all mothers and fathers, every inventor and explorer, every spiritual guide, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every dignitary, every saint and every sinner of the human race lived here - on this speck of dust, hanging in the rays of sunlight.

The earth is only a tiny part of the vast outer space. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by countless commanders and emperors in order to conquer a small part of this point in triumph for some moments. Remember the cruelties perpetrated by the inhabitants of one part of the dot on the inhabitants of another part of it. How difficult it is for them to understand how easily they kill each other, how their hatred boils. Our principles, our belief in our own worth, the belief that we play some kind of exclusive role in the universe - all this is overshadowed by a pale point in the photograph.

Our planet is a lonely grain of sand shrouded in the endless darkness of space. Out of this darkness - out of this infinity - we have nowhere to look for help, no one to save us from ourselves. We must do this ourselves. Someone said that astronomy teaches humility - and I will add that it builds character. I believe that this depiction of our tiny world is the only true way of showing how dangerous human vanity is. This photo highlights how important it is to learn to treat each other with kindness and compassion, how to protect and care for this pale blue dot - the only home we have.

Also, the Earth was compared to a large spacecraft with a life support system that needs to be maintained, or the Earth's biosphere was described as one large organism.

But, you know, I'm interested in something else. Since when did the word "Earth" become the official name of our planet? Who proposed it? Who approved? Who wrote and prescribed to everyone that now it is so?

We live in a world in which everything seems so familiar and settled that we never think about why the things around us are named that way. How did the objects around us get their names? And why is our planet called "Earth", and not otherwise?

First, let's find out how names are given now. After all, new astronomers are discovering, biologists are finding new plant species, and entomologists are finding insects. They also need to be given a name. Who is dealing with this issue now? You need to know this in order to find out why the planet was called "Earth".

Toponymy will help

Since our planet belongs to geographical objects, let's turn to the science of toponymy. She is engaged in the study of geographical names. More precisely, she studies the origin, meaning, development of the toponym. Therefore, this amazing science is in close interaction with history, geography and linguistics. Of course, there are situations when the name, for example, of a street, is given just like that, by chance. But in most cases, toponyms have their own history, sometimes going back centuries.

Planets will answer.

When answering the question of why the Earth was called the Earth, one must not forget that our home is He is part of the planets of the solar system, which also have names. Perhaps, by studying their origin, it will be possible to find out why the Earth was called the Earth?

Regarding the most ancient names, scientists and researchers do not have an exact answer to the question of how exactly they arose. At present, there are only numerous hypotheses. Which one is correct, we will never know. As for the name of the planets, the most common version of their origin is as follows: they are named after the ancient Roman gods. Mars - the Red Planet - received the name of the god of war, which cannot be imagined without blood. Mercury - the most "frisky" planet, rotating faster than others around the Sun, owes its name to the lightning-fast messenger of Jupiter.

It's all about the gods

To what deity does the Earth owe its name? Almost every nation had such a goddess. Among the ancient Scandinavians - Yord, among the Celts - Ehte. The Romans called her Tellus, and the Greeks - Gaia. None of these names is similar to the current name of our planet. But, answering the question of why the Earth was called the Earth, let's remember two names: Yord and Tellus. They will still be useful to us.

The voice of science

In fact, the question of the origin of the name of our planet, with which children so love to torment their parents, has been of interest to scientists for a long time. Many versions were put forward and smashed by opponents to smithereens, until a few remained, which began to be considered the most likely.

In astrology, it is customary to use to designate planets. And in this language, the name of our planet is pronounced as Terra("earth, soil"). In turn, this word goes back to the Proto-Indo-European ters in the meaning of "dry; dry". As well as Terra often the name is also used to refer to the Earth Tellus. And we have already met it above - the Romans called our planet that way. Man, as an exclusively terrestrial being, could name the place where he lives, only by analogy with the earth, the soil under his feet. It is also possible to draw analogies with the biblical legends about the creation by God of the earthly firmament and the first man, Adam, from clay. Why is the earth called earth? Because for a man it was the only habitat.

Apparently, it was on this principle that the name of our planet that exists now appeared. If we take the Russian name, then it came from the Proto-Slavic root earth-, which in translation means "low", "bottom". Perhaps this is due to the fact that in ancient times people considered the Earth to be flat.

In English, the name of the Earth sounds like Earth. It takes its origin from two words - erthe and eorthe. And those, in turn, descended from an even more ancient Anglo-Saxon erda(remember how the Scandinavians called the goddess of the Earth?) - "soil" or "soil".

Another version of why the Earth was called the Earth suggests that man could only survive thanks to agriculture. It was after the appearance of this occupation that the human race began to develop successfully.

Why is the earth called the nurse

The Earth is a huge biosphere inhabited by diverse life. And all living things that exist on it are fed at the expense of the Earth. Plants take the necessary trace elements in the soil, insects and small rodents feed on them, which, in turn, serve as food for larger animals. People are engaged in agriculture and grow wheat, rye, rice and other types of plants necessary for life. They raise livestock that eat plant foods.

Life on our planet is a chain of interconnected living organisms that do not die only thanks to the Mother Earth. If a new ice age begins on the planet, the likelihood of which scientists have again started talking after unprecedented cold this winter in many warm countries, then the survival of mankind will be in doubt. Ice-bound land will not be able to produce a crop. Such is the unfavorable forecast.

Probably not a single person on our planet thought about why it was called "Earth" and when it happened. Everyone repeats - "earth", "earthlings", "earth - mother", "cheese-earth" ...

But other languages ​​​​of the world also have this name, and few people thought about what it means. For example, in the Romance languages, the name sounds like "Terra". What does that mean? Territory? Terrain? Nobody knows why the whole globe became this "Terra", "Earth"...

All planets in the solar system have other names. They are named after the ancient Greek and Roman gods, who, in fact, were not gods, but only impostors who escaped from the perishing Atlantis. But they called themselves gods and began to dominate the Earth. And the post-Flood people, trying to please them and not to anger, called their names the heavenly bodies. And only the Earth was not named after those who called themselves gods.

When was the planet called "Earth"? People think that it has always been called that. But it turns out that this is not the case at all. And behind all this lies a very important and hidden thing from people. In the deepest antiquity, before the Great Biblical Flood, before the existence of Atlantis, at the very beginning of the Lemurian civilization, our planet was called quite differently. And not only because that language was completely different. The meaning of the name of our planet was different.

What do we mean by the word "land" now? Our planetary ball and soil, soil - and nothing more. At first glance, its name does not bear any qualities of our planet. But maybe this quality is simply forgotten? Maybe someone erased it from our memory?

But let's get back to what the name of our planet meant in the era of Lemuria. If translated literally, it means "God's gift." In Ancient Hyperborea, which became the successor of Lemuria, this name sounded like "Radaga". "Ra" - a deity, "yes" - a gift or giving, giving, "ha" - existence, being. From those time immemorial, this word has come down to us, and in our Slavic Russian language it sounds like "rainbow". True, it began to denote the phenomenon of multicolor refraction of the sun's rays. The fact is that in ancient times our planet from space seemed multi-colored, iridescent. This quality of color takes its name from the name of the planet.

As we now say "lilac", meaning lilac flowers, although in fact even this word has much more distant roots and does not mean well-known flowers, but the star Sirius, or rather, the planet revolving around it, having an atmosphere of the corresponding color. It was the aliens from this planet, called the Sirians, who founded Ancient Hyperborea. Lilac became their color. And the root "sir" later remained in the languages ​​of the earth as a designation of something royal. After all, even in France that was the name of the king. That is, it was an epithet denoting equality with the gods who came from Sirius. Similar ancient stories accompany many words of our languages.

But why is the word "rainbow" preserved only as the name of an atmospheric phenomenon? Why did our planet suddenly begin to be called differently? And the thing is that in those times far from us, the greatest catastrophe happened to our planet. This was before the biblical flood. At that time, the continent of Lemuria perished. Our planet survived a monstrous collision with a small but very heavy space object. It was a wandering planet, born in the black galaxy of the anti-world. It was inhabited by dense and ethereal snakes - and dragon-like essences of darkness.

In literal translation, it was called "The Great Serpent". The collision was accompanied by a catastrophe on a cosmic scale, when this planet, like a cannonball, burst into the confines of our galaxy, and the solar system met on its way. The monstrous planet shattered the ancient Phaethon to smithereens. At the same time, it split into two parts. Moved Mars out of orbit and tore the atmosphere from it. And then one of its fragments rammed our planet and went deep into its bowels. And the other did the same with Venus. The remaining fragments of the devilish planet for a long time became the anti-planets of our solar system, which were later called Marduk and Nemesis ...

But back to our planet. The fragment of the Great Serpent brought with it the greatest destruction, the flooding of Lemuria and the settlement of our planet with the essences of darkness. Time passed, and these entities took root with us. In addition to etheric bodies, they began to create physical bodies for themselves, and the era of dinosaurs began. Our planet has become a serpentine planet, a planet of reptoids. Only a small colony of Lemurians managed to survive in these conditions and retain their knowledge until bright teachers from Sirius arrived and founded Hyperborea. At that time, as we have already said, snakes ruled. And they called their new homeland the place of Serpents. Literally - "the planet lying under the snakes", that is, conquered by them.

Listen to the word "Earth". It has ancient, Hyperborean roots. "La" means "to lie", "lying". And in the word "earth" it is only necessary to change two letters in places - and you get "serpent". Here is the decoding of the modern Russian name of our planet. If you dig deeper, the syllable "ze" can be found in the word "zew". In ancient languages ​​it meant "absorption", "fall". Absorption is a sign of negative energies. Thus, in the name of the planet, the dark forces immediately put a code that it would be negative, that is, belong to the forces of darkness.

Now let's turn to other languages. The origins of the Romance word "terra" go to the language of the Atlanteans, who arrived (a little later than the teachers from Sirius) from a neighboring planet, from which the ancestors of the Hyperboreans arrived. Thus, their homeland is also the Sirius system. But the sound range of their language differed. Arriving on our planet, they heard about its name, the one given by snakes, and literally translated into their language. It turned out "Terra", which subsequently migrated to the Romance languages. So that's why the place for snakes is called "terrarium". People remember the meaning of this word, but they have forgotten the meaning of "terra".

And all this happened due to the fact that the dark entities and their hierarchs were very strong and managed to erase the true meaning of words from people's memory. They did it so cunningly that even after the era of the Teachers, which ended with the biblical flood, our planet was again called "Earth", "Terra" and other meanings of this word translated into different languages. That is why in the minds of people the Earth has become something base. The earth is dirt, it is blackness. And black was the soil, the soil. So it began to be called the earth.

We say "like heaven and earth", meaning under the earth everything is the same - the most base and dirty. Yes, and the underworld began to be compared with death, which means that the dead needed to go there, and not burn, as before, on funeral pyres, i.e. to go not into fire and light for a new rebirth, but into the gloomy underworld, into the grave. This is what the dominance of dark forces on our planet has led to. But let's listen to our words again. Now we know what "terra" is. Unfortunately, we can catch the dark meaning of this word in the words "terrorism", "terror", "tyrant", "tyranny" that have become familiar... This also includes the ancient lizard flying pterodactyl.

As you can see, the meaning, barely perceptible to our consciousness, is visible in all these words. And now the German word "erde". Listen to how consonant it is with our word "deathbed." We say - "lies on his deathbed." Those. will go to the ground very soon. And to this day, we continue to call our planet the planet of snakes and death. This is all due to the fact that dark entities continued to live both in the underworld, called "hell", and in the bodies of people who did evil. The name code "Earth" worked for them. He made them the masters of life, because the planet "lay under them", which means that all bright people were automatically considered subjugated, slaves and servants of dark people and the hierarchs embodied in them. That is why evil could not be defeated in any way. Too deeply it took root, so deeply that it slipped people the idea of ​​its necessity and usefulness - the idea of ​​the balance of good and evil.

And now, in the era of the Transition, the Higher Forces are doing a colossal job of removing the laws of the dark world. They removed the energy record from the information field about the meaning of the word "earth". But still, people need to return to the original name of their planet. Our planet is called "Rainbow" or Divine gift. It is under this name that other civilizations of the Cosmos will know it when our Transition is completely completed...

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