Revelations and changes

I was feeling nostalgic, so I changed my Deadjournal layout back to the
way it was before I started playing around with background pictures. Of
course, like the idiot I am, I must have saved the old colors to my
computer and not to anywhere useful where I could get to them when I'm
not at home -_-;; So I had to improvise and pick colors quickly. They
might go back to normal later, or I'll pick something else entirely.

Anyway... time for yet another instance of "elaby has a revelation about the Japanese language."

I was looking up Utena lyrics, from the second end song where they list a
bunch of heavens - lunar heaven, mercurial heaven, venusian heaven, and
soforth. The Japanese words for those listed in the song are as
follows...

Tsukiten - Lunar Heaven
Suseiten - Mercurial Heaven
Kinseiten - Venusian Heaven
Taiyouten - Solar Heaven
Kaseiten - Martian Heaven
Mokuseiten - Jovian Heaven
Doseiten - Saturnian Heaven
Kouseiten - Sidereal Heaven
Gendouten - Motive Heaven

Now,
I don't know about those last two... I'll get to that later... but. My
revelation here involves kanji and Sailor Moon. I assume here that ten
is heaven, because I know that, and so the first part of the word is
the name of the planet.

Tsuki - moon. Obviously, Sailor Moon, Tsukino Usagi ("rabbit of the moon"). You already knew that. But then it gets interesting.

Susei - Mercury. The kanji "sui," meaning water, as in suiyoubi (Tuesday.)
Mercury. Sailor Mercury used water-based attacks. Mizuno Ami, being her
name... Mizu being the other pronuciation of the kanji for water.

Kinsei - Venus. The kanji "kin," as in kinyoubi (Friday) means gold. Most of
Sailor Venus's attacks were gold colored or had something to do with
gold.

Kasei - Mars. The kanji "ka" (kayoubi, Tuesday) is the
kanji for fire, and the other pronunciation, "hi", appears in Sailor
Mars's name, Hino Rei. She uses fire-based attacks.

Mokusei - Jupiter. The kanji "moku", as in mokuyoubi (Thursday.) The other
pronunciation of that kanji, "ki", is in Sailor Jupiter's name, Kino
Makoto. She uses leaf/nature attacks, more tree-like things in the
manga than in the show... but all the same.

The other three I have no idea about, because I don't remember Sailor Saturn's last
name. Something Hotaru. Something that I should remember because I've heard
it elsewhere >_< But anyway, "dousei" must mean Saturn, and "do"
(as in doyoubi, Saturday) is the kanji for a growing plant bud thing.

I have gleaned from all this...

That the Japanese named planets after weekdays after nature/elements, or
some other configuration of those three, as opposed to us'ns, who named
the planets after Roman gods and the days of the week after Norse ones
(Tiw's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Frig's Day) and some other things
like moons and suns and Saturn. And that Naoko Takeuchi did some nifty
stuff with her kanji and the meanings of them all.

Now I go to find out what's up with those last heavens.

Kouseiten - Sidereal Heaven. Kousei has one meaning of "fixed star," and sidereal
apparently means "of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or
constellations; stellar." And also appearantly using the stars to tell
time, as in sidereal time. I didn't know that word. Iiiiinteresting.
Gotta love Utena and it's bizarre references.

Gendouten - Motive Heaven. I assume it means motive in the adjective sense... "causing or able to cause motion." And "gendou" is the Japanese noun for motive, so
it doesn't have to be an adjective. But it can be, since the nifty
translators changed all of the planets to their adjective forms...
which I do indeed like.

Now to find out what the heck Hotaru's last name is. Ah yes. Tomoe.

Dosei... I don't know. The kanji for "do" could be there, since half the time
things like "do" and "to" are corrupted into each other or
interchangable. I wish I could see it written, that'd tell me.

Okay, that's all my brains for one day.

(edit tack-on at the end) OH, I just remembered. "Sei", the endings of all
those planet things, means life. Or... something important like that...
I can write that kanji. It's in sensei and gakusei and all those
things. No time to research! (end edit)