Comments on Mike Brown's Planets: Orcus Porcus

Love it :) I had never heard of Vanth before all t...

2009-04-30T20:59:00.000-07:00

Love it :) I had never heard of Vanth before all this, but I love the sound of the name and I was very moved by the story. As it happened, I went into labor barely a week after I read this, and it seemed fitting to continue the family tradition started 6 years ago with my son Thomas, whose middle name is Nath (Beta Tauri being prominent in the night sky around the time of his birth). So...

Roxanne Vanth Quackenbush
born April 21, 2009
welcome to the universe

Thanks, Mike

Cool ! Thanks for letting us take part in this ;...

2009-04-17T12:23:00.000-07:00

Cool !

Thanks for letting us take part in this ;D

I love it! And look how much fun mythology we all...

2009-04-15T21:51:00.000-07:00

I love it! And look how much fun mythology we all got to learn along the way. Glad it was your task to parse all the good suggestions.

We may not have the audience of the Colbert Report, but you have a definite invitation to speak at the Sudekum Planetarium when we open our full-dome version of "Nine Planets....and Counting"

So, ah... I'm guessing you don't like Colbert much...

2009-04-13T12:36:00.000-07:00

So, ah... I'm guessing you don't like Colbert much, eh?

:)

CCPetersen

Planet,..... could be detectable around spring equ...

2009-04-10T03:45:00.000-07:00

Planet,..... could be detectable around spring equinoqes, this month, close to Aldebaran,...take in account results of Los Alamos Milagro cosmic rays survay,...
Pavel Smutny

I liked "Vanth" right away, good choice. Thank yo...

2009-04-08T14:47:00.000-07:00

I liked "Vanth" right away, good choice. Thank you, Solvay :)

I felt sure that there would be somebody into early myths, an expert, to whom the answer would be obvious.

Maybe I should find a Cherokee name. Unfortunately, I don't know the alphabet.

These contests are fun, even if you can't make a particularly relevant offer. Everybody has some piece of personal history somewhere. Most Cherokees these days study the Judaeo-Christian mythology and my suggestion in that pantheon didn't work.

I like this convention of consulting the general public. Maybe something paricularly apt is out there.

:)

-Michael C. Emmert

Why did you give up playing D&D? You have no idea ...

2009-04-07T16:21:00.000-07:00

Why did you give up playing D&D? You have no idea what you're missing!

Great choice. Is "major moons of plutinos are psy...

2009-04-07T06:30:00.000-07:00

Great choice. Is "major moons of plutinos are psychopomps" now a convention?

Nice. I'm saddened you didn't use my suggestion o...

2009-04-06T23:57:00.000-07:00

Nice. I'm saddened you didn't use my suggestion of Thanatos, but I do like Vanth. Perhaps you can use Thanatos for the next plutino sattelite you find?

And I find it interesting how I'm usually one of the first to comment on your posts.

I am still grinning randomly about this, I hope yo...

2009-04-06T22:45:00.000-07:00

I am still grinning randomly about this, I hope you understand. Thank you. Let's hear it for the Etruscans!

midwife to the dying & a monster found in fairy-ta...

2009-04-06T22:01:00.000-07:00

midwife to the dying & a monster found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh

lovely

Good choice. I really like Vanth: not just she's a...

2009-04-06T19:01:00.000-07:00

Good choice. I really like Vanth: not just she's also Etruscan but the name sounds terribly cool (unlike Phlegyas, that sounds like phlegm - not to mention that I fully agree with your criticism of the legend and that he's not Etruscan anyhow).

Btw, the most common spelling is Proserpina or (anglicised) Proserpine, from proserpere (to emerge). Apparently Prosperina/e also exists but must be a mispelling that somehow stuck in English - I have never heard/read anything of the like in any Romance language.