Why isn’t there a Viking Mercury?

[Mitina]

3 hours ago, photopro2 said:

Tellus was the Roman counterpart of the Greek earth goddess Gaia. It is suggested that the word Tellus became used in Latin as a personification for the Earth as a whole rather than "terra" which related more to physical properties of earth, in the same way that "aqua" related to water.

Interesting bit of information.  Thanks.

[LindaS272]

4 hours ago, photopro2 said:

Back in 2018 it was widely reported that ship number eight (which has just gone into service as the Viking Saturn) would be called the Viking Tellus. This name is not (as some might expect 😉) a nod towards towards Viking customer services. In fact it is another name for the planet Earth 🌍

 

Tellus was the Roman counterpart of the Greek earth goddess Gaia. It is suggested that the word Tellus became used in Latin as a personification for the Earth as a whole rather than "terra" which related more to physical properties of earth, in the same way that "aqua" related to water.

 

Hence the phrase "Tellus Mater" (literally Mother Earth) or simply "Tellus" became the name which was used for our planet by Latin speaking scholars into the renaissance and beyond. 

 

So, while the name was not applied to ship number eight as expected, it may come up again further down the line.

I think this is really going to blow Peregrina’s mind to know that she’s really been communicating with Gaia all these years. 😉😂

[Peregrina651]

4 hours ago, LindaS272 said:

I think this is really going to blow Peregrina’s mind to know that she’s really been communicating with Gaia all these years. 😉😂

 

 

At least preCovid, never a doubt that I was communicating with the customer service gods of the company. I just did not know the complete significance of the name.

 

Thanks, @photopro2 for doing the Google leg work.

 

 

[Heidi13]

12 hours ago, LindaS272 said:

Isn’t Saturn #9? I think the Sun still figures in the count, though sold to China.

 

Saturn is the current #9, but when considering the Sun, she is the 10th ship built for Viking.

 

1 - Star

2 - Sea

3 - Sky

4 - Sun

5 - Orion

6 - Jupiter

7 - Venus

8 - Mars

9 - Neptune

10 - Saturn

[LindaS272]

Got it. I was confusing the order of the Neptune and Saturn.

[photopro2]

6 hours ago, Heidi13 said:

Saturn is the current #9, but when considering the Sun, she is the 10th ship built for Viking.

Thanks for that @Heidi13 I should have thought to list the ships myself before posting. 

 

Looking back at the reports from 2018 I now see that they were predicting that Tellus was to follow The Venus as "ship 8". With the help of yourself, and @LindaS272 I think I can now definitively say that it was the Viking Mars, which was provisionally called Tellus.......... Probably 😁

[photopro2]

10 hours ago, Peregrina651 said:

Thanks, @photopro2 for doing the Google leg work.

You're very welcome..... I wish I got the ship name/ number right first time though 🙂

[Heidi13]

4 hours ago, photopro2 said:

Thanks for that @Heidi13 I should have thought to list the ships myself before posting. 

 

Looking back at the reports from 2018 I now see that they were predicting that Tellus was to follow The Venus as "ship 8". With the help of yourself, and @LindaS272 I think I can now definitively say that it was the Viking Mars, which was provisionally called Tellus.......... Probably 😁

 

Based on memory, I believe you are correct that it was Mars that was originally speculated would be named Tellus. I recall reading a document that mentioned Venus then Tellus.

[Jim Avery]

Tell us sounds too much like a mobile phone company.🥃🍺

[CCWineLover]

17 hours ago, Heidi13 said:

 

Saturn is the current #9, but when considering the Sun, she is the 10th ship built for Viking.

 

1 - Star

2 - Sea

3 - Sky

4 - Sun

5 - Orion

6 - Jupiter

7 - Venus

8 - Mars

9 - Neptune

10 - Saturn

Andy - our last Viking cruise we played trivia and one of the questions was name the Viking Ocean ships in order of their roll out  (Saturn had not rolled out yet).    Our group was the only one to get it all correct since I felt we needed to include Sun.  (Others left it off).   Irony is, we'd just been talking about the order the day before and said that'd make a good trivia question!

[CurlerRob]

On 5/12/2023 at 1:45 PM, Jim Avery said:

Tell us sounds too much like a mobile phone company.🥃🍺

 

And a Canuck one at that! But they do have a long-running commitment to terrific "critter" advertising ... 🍺🥌

 

https://strategyonline.ca/2023/03/07/telus-re-ups-on-its-critters-in-latest-brand-campaign/