First Mandaean on Pluto

First Mandaean on Pluto July 27, 2015

Jim Davila noticed before I did that Charles Häberl‘s social media campaign to get part of Pluto named after Krun – the Mandaean lord of the underworld – was successful. The designation of one of Pluto’s recently-revealed land features with the name Krun marks the first time that a celestial body has been given a Mandaean name by anyone other than the Mandaeans themselves.

Although Wikipedia is not always reliable, on this matter it presumably is, given that the Krun page has been edited by Charles himself. And so click through for more information.

Krun


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