What was Disney thinking?
Anyway, there's an ancient religious connection involved with a planet named P!uto and the Sign called Scorpio. The ancient Babylonians pictured the constellation of the Scorpion with ancient Egypt in mind. And, the most important god of Egypt was Osirus, transformed by the Hellenists into their god of the Underworld, Pluto.
The Romans originally had their own name for the god, "Dis Pater", but later changed it to Pluto. Pluto and Apollo are the only Greek deities I know of with the same exact name in Latin as in the Greek. Ouranos, Greek god of the Heavens, was known as "Caelus" in Latin.
Hi david starling,
What kind of nonsense is that?
First, it's not "Dis Pater" it's Dyas-piter. There's a difference.
Dyas-piter is Hindi, as in Indian.
Familiar with the Hungarian town Gyula? Google.
Gyula and Dyas have something in common linguistically. The "gy" in Magyar and the "dy" in Hindi are the same sound phonetically as "dj" in Slavic languages.
The "dj" and "gy" and "dy" sounds are the same phonetically as the pronunciation of "j" in English "judges" or "Jupiter."
Get it?
Dyas-piter equates to Jupiter. The word "Dis Pater" is a very good example of a poor and disturbingly bad transliteration (which is why there is more than 100 spellings of the name of the former Libyan head-of-State Ghaddafi by stupid idiotic journalists who are clueless about transliteration).
Roman Jupiter equates to Greek Zeus.
You're pronouncing "Zeus" wrong.
The "z" in ancient Greek is equivalent to "dj" in Slavic and "gy" in Magyar and "dy" in Hindi and the "j" in English "judges" and "Jupiter."
Thus....the correct English transliteration of the ancient Greek Zeus is Jeus. It's called a "fricative shift." See Grimm's Law.
To which "Babylonians" are you referring?
There are three totally different "Babylonians."
The, um, "Babylonians" who gained power circa 1830 BCE were Amorites. I assure you they knew nothing of Magan (Egypt).
About 3 centuries later circa 1530 BCE they were overthrown by the Cassites (the biblical "Kush" in Genesis).
Some "Babylonians" regained control circa 1125 BCE. They weren't exactly Amorites. Well, some of them were. Some of them were Akkadian, and Sumerian, some Elamites from Elam, Mari, Nuzi, Mitanni, some Hurrians. Suffice to say they were a cosmopolitan group linked only by the Aramaic language.
They certainly knew where Egypt was, but not much else about Egypt.
They got overthrown by the Assyrians in 729 BCE, and then some of the remnants of old Babylon tossed the Assyrians in 612 BCE, and Chaldean would be more historically accurate than Babylonian (and then the Chaldeans were tossed by the Medo-Persians in 529 BCE).
In any event, none of those "Babylonians" would have had Osiris and ancient Egypt in mind, especially since the zodiac existed before they existed and was handed down to them.
Your claim that Osiris was "the most important god" is highly subjective, baseless and without merit.
Name one pharaoh who took the name Osiris?
I can name dozens and dozens of pharaohs who took the names of Ra, On/An/Amen, Ptah, Thoth, Ankh, Horus, Seth, Dedi and others.
For example, Dedumoses means "emanating from Dedi."
If, as you claim, Osiris is "the most important god" then why didn't any pharaohs take the name of Osiris?
Only a non-Egyptian bereft of any knowledge of Egypt would claim Osiris was "the most important god."
The Greek god of the underworld was Hades, not Osiris and certainly not Pluto.
Pluto was the Roman/Latin name for Hades.
Neptune is the Latin name for the Greek Poseidon.
Your attempt to rewrite history is not going very well.