Dwarf Planets

Dwarf Planets. I was familiar with some of the names, and the idea that they represented  ancient mythological deities and, as such, carried special meaning. This made me curious about the others, so I looked them up. Here is what I discovered:
Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture.
Vesta, the hearth goddess.
Pallas, the Greek Titan god of warcraft.
Hygiea, the Greek goddess of health.
Eris, the goddess personification of strife and discord.
Dysnomia, a daughter of Eris. Her name means “Lawlessness,” and is also the name of a disorder wherein one has difficulty remembering words or names.
Pluto, a god of the underworld.
Charon, the ferryman of Hades who carries souls across the river Styx.
Makemake, the Rapa Nui creator of humanity and god of fertility.
Haumea, the Hawiian goddess of childbirth.
Namaka, a daughter of Haumea and is the Hawaiian goddess of the sea.
Hi’iaka, a daughter of Haumea and is the patron goddess of the Big Island of Hawaii.
Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, believed to live at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Orcus, an Italic/Roman god of the underworld and punisher of broken oaths.
Quaor (pronounced “Kwawar”), a Tongva creator god.
Varuna is a Hindu god of water and the celestial ocean, and of the law of the underworld.
Vanth (a moon of Orcus) is a winged Etruscan psychopomp who guides the souls of the departed to the underworld.

Jupiter's moons are named after his lovers.
Saturn's moons are named after fellow Titans.
Kuiper Belt objects are named after mythological deities, with preference given to creator deities.

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