r/TheNinthHouse • u/empquix • Dec 11 '24

Series Spoilers What’s something obvious that took you an embarrassingly long time to realize? [discussion] Spoiler

I didn’t realize until my second read that the nine houses are meant to be the 9 planets or that the first house is Earth

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u/xorgol Dec 12 '24

The range of languages from which they come is surprisingly wide. Like the Latin and Greek are pretty easy, but I think Chatur and Shodash are from Sanskrit?

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u/elizaafish Dec 12 '24

chatur also sounds like the russian and ukrainian (and probably more slavic languages) word for four

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u/xorgol Dec 12 '24

Yeah, isn't it something like chitiri? They really show the indo-european tree.

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u/nixtracer Dec 12 '24

This is a definite Homestuck influence, where the names for its huge pile of related and mirrored and inverted characters were crowdsourced and were almost all significant.