Originally posted by bluewaterrider
There's a point at which saying a thing takes up valuable time is a cop out. Absolutely I would concede the point when the link was to a full documentary, no matter how well done. 5 minutes, though? That feels absolutely disingenuous.
Considering you don't even feel it's worth spending the time explaining what the subject is or directly pointing to the good parts, I kinda toss that back to you? You're spending like, no effort on this.
It probably took you longer to write your response above asking me what the clip is about than to simply watch it.
How long do you take you to write...?
It normally takes me maybe a minute or two to write a post (I'll check the time at this one at the end), and the longest post here by others I probably read in 15 seconds. Watching a 6 minute video is a lot more time- and we aren't exactly talking an exciting music video at that.
I disagree heavily with your assertion that people of the past considered the planets lightly.
I never said that, I said that they viewed them as important due to them being highly visible and unusual in the sky.
Initially you said they had great influence despite not being easily visible- I was correcting that, they were always not just visible but easily so.
Meanwhile, the not-so-obvious but still visible planets, Mercury and Uranus, got ignored and not even named til far more recently, showing that even major planets would get no significance attached to them unless they were bright and pretty.
Saturn was so influential that one of OUR days of the week even now is named for it,
That's a bit backwards. The God Saturn was considered very important, so the planet was named for the God, and our calendar was made back when that god was big, and we kept it out of inertia.
. In the ancient world, people went to lengths that would be unthinkable today, sacrificing human lives to the planet, in a guise that would probably shock you if the narrator can be believed -- and so far I have little reason to believe he shouldn't. It is far out of proportion to what could be expected if Saturn were merely bright and singular in its paths as you assert.
I would say it's far more likely that they sacrificed to Saturn because they thought he was a living being who had great sway over day to day life (not that the Romans did much human sacrifice, they were more the type to sacrifice goats).
They didn't know they were planets. All they knew where they were lights in the heavens- and attached significant to that. In some cultures, latching them to things they viewed as massively important for other reasons.
Time of writing: 4 minutes. Hm, longer than I thought... still, that's with checking what you said before, and writing's more fun than watching.