Hello , Here I wanted to start a new thread on an older project of mine I decided to renew a bit.
I wanted so to refine a bit the shape of parts of the continents to give a a more interesting look and shapes.
All the continents have been made according to tectonic plates and continental shelves as can be seen in the older WIP thread here.
So here is a new Physical map of Thersis.
For naming I am following a sort of mix of names taken from ancient cultures and languages with a bit of changes ...
For example Thersis comes from the Indoeuropean word for Earth wich is Tersa.
Then here a list of some of the names I am using or deriving from to kind of remind an ethymology.
Ersetia(ersetu Sumerian)
Pacua ( Pacha inca terra)
Sachea
Hawaki ( terra origine hawai)
Thule ( Ancient mythical land )
Vardia( Vardar greek wind)
Citeria
Ulteria
Akakor
Aztlan ( Ancient mythical Aztec land )
Ophir ( Ancient mythical region from Bible )
Meropis( Greek atlantis parody)
Anostos ( non return greek)
Hyperia ( beyond greek)
Vaniria (Vanir )
Erdea (Erde german for Earth)
Kumbaba
Wana(terra sanskrit )
Paititi ( lost land Inca)
Auraea ( Emilio Salgari )
Chereseto ( Emilio Salgari )
Venatoria( hunting latin)
Mania ( of the man)
Thersis ( Tersa Indoeuropean)
udadhea(udadhí sea Sanskrit)
Borealia( Borea north wind)
Suchandra (Tibetan king of Shambala)
Devendra (Tibetan king of Shambala)
Al kebu lan(Ancient name of africa)
Afaria ( Afar dust Phoenician)
Arborea( land of trees latin )
Cemanahuac( Aztec name of land surrounded by water)
Zipacna ( Mayan for crocotile earth crust )
Dunia ( Swhaili for Earth )
Shamba (land for swhaili )
Indra ( Hindu deity )
Geb ( Ancient Egypt for world )
Zep Tepi ( Ancient Egypt of First time )
Aker ( Ancient Egypt for Horizon)
Vatha ( Sanskrit for Wind )
EKwos ( Indoeuropean for Horse )
Erwā ( Indoeuropean for land )
Seres ( latin name for Chinese )
So I plan to use ancient languages to label place names and give both times an exotic sound and an more realistic meaning to the places by making compositions like for example Hima in Sanskrit means snow , laya , home , Hima laya means so snow home or dwelling .... I plan to make similar compositions.
I would be happy to receive comments, opinions, sugestions about the map , the naming system , the labeling way and everything else that might help make me the map more realistic and interesting ...
I also latinized a bit the toponimy to make a sort of latin world view of the world with latinization of the names.
Es Aztlan is the mythical land of the ancient Aztecs is Latinized as Aztlantia.
Thankyou all for attention.
Here the WIP map .
The map was 21k x 10 k so I had to reduce to 16kx8k and the one showed in this page is reduced even more .... to see it larger follow the upper link.
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Large Map.