there were more planets beyond Saturn ignoring the possibility that some names in the star lessons may have applied to earth itself and seeking to apply the great number of other and epithets only to the five planets they believed were known to the Sumerians scholars reached conflicting conclusions some scholars even suggested that the confusion was not theirs but a Chaldean mix-up for some unknown reason they said the Chaldeans had switched around the names of the five known planets the Sumerians referred to all