Latin versions of Salacia and Actaea symbols

[yomikoma]

Many years ago I came up with symbols for Salacia, a likely dwarf planet, and her moon Actaea. Salacia is a sea goddess often depicted accompanied by seahorses so I created a seahorse-inspired symbol for her where the tail included a lower-case sigma, for Salacia, and then applied the same tail to an alpha for Actaea. (Those symbols are on the left in the picture above.)

A correspondent pointed out that Salacia is actually Roman, not Greek. With some input from him I eventually came up with a version of the symbols that used an s instead. (Those are on the right in the picture above.) Strangely, Actaea is Greek (which is probably what confused me originally) so maybe the a in her symbol is still an alpha? Who knows.

https://suberic.net/~dmm/astro/tno.html#SalaciaLatin
https://suberic.net/~dmm/astro/moons.html#ActaeaLatin

Comments

[cnoocy]

I will note here that the specific form of S here still looks like a terminal sigma: ς which keeps the the symbol connected to Greek as well.

[yomikoma]

I was going to say "Salacia wouldn't start with a terminal sigma" but it wouldn't start with a lowercase one either I suppose :)

[okrablossom]

I was literally just coming to say "cnoocy knows" and look he's already left a comment! :D

[yomikoma]

he's on it!