Thoughts- Days of the Week

Day 25

I was thinking about the names of the days of the week tonight, I was remembering how Thor's day became Thursday and was based on that mythology/religion and I knew that the other days names had a significant tie in as well. I was vaguely remembering/thinking something about Zues and Tuesday (however this proved to be a false/made up memory). So in order to satify myself I had to take the time and look up the connections again.


Sunday - The Sun's day... wow should have remembered that!
Monday - The Moon's day
Tuesday - Tiu's Day - god of war/sky for enflish/germanic peoples
Wednesday - Woden's Day - Leader of the hunt
Thursday - Thor's day! the one everyone knows...
Friday - Freya's Day - goddess of love/beauty
Saturday - Saturn's Day - Roman god of agriculture



Stolen from a website as I did more looking into this...

"The Greeks named the days week after the sun, the moon and the five known planets, which were in turn named after the gods Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Cronus. The Greeks called the days of the week the Theon hemerai "days of the Gods". The Romans substituted their equivalent gods for the Greek gods, Mars, Mercury, Jove (Jupiter), Venus, and Saturn. (The two pantheons are very similar.) The Germanic peoples generally substituted roughly similar gods for the Roman gods, Tiu (Twia), Woden, Thor, Freya (Fria), but did not substitute Saturn."

http://www.crowl.org/lawrence/time/days.html

So its intersting that the three major European groups picked what ideal each day stood for and basically plugged in their god for that ideal... we just happened to use the germanic/english/norse gods because we speak English.