Ogygos Wrote:
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> Poseidon later called Neptune by the Romans was a
> God that representing the planet Neptune,

The Romans could not have supposed that the god Neptune could be identified with the modern planet Neptune, because the modern planet Neptune wasn't discovered until the 19th century AD; the whole story is described here.

even the
> name encodes Neptune's dimensions.

At one point, there were moves afoot to call the newly discovered planet "Le Verrier", which you might have had difficulty fitting into your system of numerical encoding ...

Also there are
> ancient references to the Poseidon "star".

Are you implying that these ancient references refer to the planet that we know as Neptune that, as I keep mentioning, wasn't discovered until 1846, and nearly got called by another name ... ??

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