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Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) wrote a short epic poem titled 'Urania' in 1809.
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Urania, was the Muse of astronomy and astronomical writings. Her name means "heavenly" or "of heaven". She is said to be able to tell the future by the arrangement of the stars. She inherited Zeus’ power and majesty and Mnemosynes’ beauty and grace, and is often associated with universal love. She is usually depicted dressed in a cloak embroidered with stars with her eyes and attention focused on the heavens and a celestial globe which she is pointing to with a rod.
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Urania is a beautiful name, the name of my wife from La Concha Town, Nicaragua.
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I found this pronunciation of Urania; yu-RAH-nee-ah.
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Too close to uranium to me, although the Greek version, Ourania, is really pretty. The one "o" makes a big difference to me. :)
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In Modern Greek it is pronounced "oo-rah-NEE-ah" or "oo-rah-NYEE-ah."
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In Greek this name is pronounced aw-RARN-ya, not yoo-RAY-nee-a.
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Urania was the goddess of a different kind of love to Aphrodite; Aphrodite was goddess of romantic and sexual love, Uranis was goddess of brotherly, universal love for other members of the human race.
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Urania is also the goddess of love, the counterpart of the Greek Aphrodite.
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http://tanyaarnoldpetlover.blogspot.com/2013/04/urania-gypsy-lee-boswell.html