Comments on: The “nine planetary deities” and the Hosokawa family crest http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/the-nine-planetary-deities/ Blogging Asian Art and Culture Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:14:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jack Fertig http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/the-nine-planetary-deities/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 Jack Fertig Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:11:36 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=913#comment-1146 (1) The planets were considered as a special class of stars, not "opposed to the stars." There were in fact two classes of stars, the planets and the "fixed stars." Many astrologers still use the same terminology. (2) There are nine planetary dieties in Hinduism, and Hindu Temples sometimes have navagraha altars to honor them. In that cosmology the nine planets are the Sun and Moon (regarded as planets also in western pre-Copernican terms) Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the North and South Lunar Nodes. (Those are the two points where the Moon's orbit around the Earth intersects with the Earth's orbit around the Sun.) These nodes are very important in astrology, and especially in the Hindu traditions of astrology. Of course Hinduism wasn't practiced in Japan, so there's still a missing link. One guess is that Buddhists conveyed the ideas, but a study of Japanese astrology/astronomy would probably turn up the explanation. (1) The planets were considered as a special class of stars, not “opposed to the stars.” There were in fact two classes of stars, the planets and the “fixed stars.” Many astrologers still use the same terminology.

(2) There are nine planetary dieties in Hinduism, and Hindu Temples sometimes have navagraha altars to honor them. In that cosmology the nine planets are the Sun and Moon (regarded as planets also in western pre-Copernican terms) Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the North and South Lunar Nodes. (Those are the two points where the Moon’s orbit around the Earth intersects with the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.) These nodes are very important in astrology, and especially in the Hindu traditions of astrology. Of course Hinduism wasn’t practiced in Japan, so there’s still a missing link. One guess is that Buddhists conveyed the ideas, but a study of Japanese astrology/astronomy would probably turn up the explanation.

]]> By: ratnaveera http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/the-nine-planetary-deities/comment-page-1/#comment-555 ratnaveera Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:48:37 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=913#comment-555 It's true that everyone has both positive and negative effects of planetary gods in their life. It’s true that everyone has both positive and negative effects of planetary gods in their life.

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