Old man calling up from below: HEY YOU GIRL WHAT IN THE SAM HILL ARE YA DOING Me, in coveralls, 200 ft up, painting word "TERRA" over "EARTH" on the big sign: I'm changing the name! Old man: YER WHAT Me: we colonized a new planet, so the old name goes. That's the rules sorry
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(And part of the point of Lewis' cosmology is that the gods are real and are the guardian angels created by the Almighty for the different actual physical planets And the god of our world, personified as Gaea/Tellus/Enki etc, actually exists and is the same being as Satan)
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It’s been used in English ever since, too. “Terra Firma” (solid ground) is one example. A southern continent called Terra Australis Incognita (unknown southern land) was theorised before Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica were found, too.
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This reminds me of the time I had a strategic SF boardgame and both Terra and Tellus were on the map
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