{"id":88294,"date":"2019-07-12T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88294"},"modified":"2019-07-01T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:29:35","slug":"weekend-open-thread-name-origins-of-the-days-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88294","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread-Name Origins of the Days of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Italian bracelet depicting days of the week. From left to right, Monday to Sunday. (Wikipedia)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

You guys could pretty much guess the origins of the names for Saturday (Saturn Day), Sunday ( Sun Day), and Monday (Moon Day). We associate those days with celestial bodies. In ancient times, celestial bodies were associated with gods\/goddesses.<\/p>\n

So, what about Tuesday through Friday?<\/p>\n

“Tues” is an echo of “Tiw”, a northern European god of war. in Latin, the name of the day was “Dies Martis”, or “Mars Day”. The Spanish word “Martes” derived from “Dies Martis”. Mars was also the god of war.<\/p>\n

Ancient Romans associated Odin with Mercury. Wednesday in English, and Mi\u00e9rcoles in Spanish references the “same” god.<\/p>\n

Thor was the god of thunder. In addition to being the head of the Roman pantheon of gods, Jupiter was the daytime god of thunder. Thursday echoes “Thor’s Day”, just as Jueves echoes Dies Jovis for Jupiter. Friday? Frigga was Venus’s counterpart. The Romance language names for Friday derive from the Latin name for Venus Day.<\/p>\n

So, the days of the week literally run as follows: Sun Day, Moon Day, Mars Day, Mercury Day, Jupiter Day, Venus Day, and Saturn Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You guys could pretty much guess the origins of the names for Saturday (Saturn Day), Sunday ( Sun Day), and Monday (Moon Day). We associate those days with celestial bodies. In ancient times, celestial bodies were associated with gods\/goddesses. So, what about Tuesday through Friday? “Tues” is an echo of “Tiw”, a northern European god […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-mY6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}