Puzzle of the Day

Yesterday's puzzle was about planets; today's puzzle is about The Planets, a piece of music by Gustav Holst, whose opening is heard here:

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1. The Planets has seven movements. The first one (heard above) is Mars, the Bringer of War. Others include Venus, the Bringer of Peace and Saturn, the Bringer of ___ ___. What does Saturn bring to all human beings? (Yesterday's puzzle might contain a clue.)

2. You can hear two harps in the clip above. Jason points out something odd about the scoring. Instead of repeating a single note, each harp goes back and forth between two octaves:

   

   But you don't hear the octave jumps when you listen. Why don't you hear them, and why did Holst score the piece this way?

Check back tomorrow for the answer, a shoutout to all the solvers, and a new puzzle!

Previous puzzle:

Early ancient Greeks called these things Stilbon, Phosphorus, Hesperus, Thouros, Zeus, and Kronos. A bit later, Stilbon became Hermes, Thouros became Ares, and Phosphorus and Hesperus merged into one. Modern Greek adds three more items to the list, including Gaia.

1. What are these things? (The answer I'm looking for is not deities.)
2. What is the single Greek name that replaced both Phosphorus and Hesperus?

Answer:

They're planets. If you know your mythology, then the big clue is that Hermes, Ares, Zeus, and Kronos are the Greek gods/titans whose Roman equivalents are Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

The list doesn't include Earth (which was not yet thought of as a planet, but is now represented by Gaia), nor Uranus and Neptune (discovered in modern times). But it should include Venus. However, the ancient Greeks originally thought that the Venus they could see at dawn (Phosphorus) was a different celestial body than the Venus they could see at dusk (Hesperus)! Eventually they realized that "the morning star is the evening star", and named it for another Olympian.

Which one? We call her Venus, but to the Greeks she's Aphrodite.

With a ♀️ (the astronomical sign of Venus) to those who got the second part, huzzah to solvers Anna J., Anna K., Hazel, Leo S., Maddy^♀️, Atticus^♀️, Jason^♀️, and Dr. Yetman^♀️!