Uncle John’s Did You Know?
“MYTHOLOGY• The Amazon rain forest in South America was named after a mythical tribe of female warriors who supposedly lived there.• Good name for a running shoe: Nike was the Greek goddess of victory.• Spiders are called arachnids after Arachne, a girl in Greek mythology who wove a tapestry that made fun of the gods and goddesses—not a good idea—so the goddess Athena turned her into a spider.• The word “cereal” comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and grain.• Some Native American ...peoples believed in “tricksters,” spirits who took animal forms, such as a fox or coyote, and caused mischief and humiliation.• In Greek myth, Pandora’s box—which contained all the world’s evils, and which Pandora was warned not to open, but she did, anyway—wasn’t a box. It was a jar.• The (former) planet Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld because it’s so far away from the Sun that it seems to be in eternal darkness.• Wednesday is named for the Norse god Odin.MoreLess
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