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You don't have to read many pages in history to realize that the sky above the Earth looked very different just a few thousand years ago. You might wonder why the ancients named their god after a planet that most people now can't even point to. Well, they were quite explicit about that: they didn't worship gods named for planets, they worshiped the planets. In ancient days, Jupiter and Saturn dominated the sky, and Venus and Mars put on quite a show for a long time.
Here is a careful investigation of ancient myths and legends, considering stories in hundreds of languages from all over the world and going back to 10,500 BC. It is very long, and it is still in progress. saturniancosmology.org/
The Babylonians named the then known planets after their five leading gods and goddesses. A modern historical work explains: “We refer to these planets by their Roman names, but the Romans had adopted the Babylonian terms and simply translated them into their equivalents in Rome. Thus the planet of Ishtar, the goddess of love, became Venus, and that of the god Marduk was changed to Jupiter.” The name “Chaldean,” used by the Babylonians, came to be almost synonymous with “astrologer.”
I think they did this because they probably did not know that they were names of the roman gods and goddesses until they found out about the myths and every thing else but in all sense they probably thought that they were more powerful in some ways because they were all made for war of to use there ability's to help with war. But like Minerva they threw her out because she had nothing to do with war because she was the goddesses of craft and they thought that was useless.