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.
बाबुलवासियों से तब ज्ञात ग्रहों के नाम अपनी पाँच प्रमुख देवीयों के नाम पर रखे थे ।