If you could create an additional day of the week, what would you name it and why?
If you could create an additional day of the week, what would you name it and why?
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The days of the week come from the Sun (Sunday), Moon (Monday), and classic 5 planets (Tuesday = Mars, Wednesday = Mercury, Thursday = Jupiter, Friday = Venus, Saturday = Saturn). This makes more sense in some other languages, for example Spanish: marte / martes, mercurio / miercoles. Saturn = Saturday though is almost obvious.
So if there were another day in the week, I have no choice but to either:
- name it Earthday
- name it after Uranus, the next discovered planet
This gives us precedent to create up to 10 days per week by including all 8 planets plus sun & moon.
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the days in english are from old norse, no?
- Sun's day
- Moon's day
- Tyr's day
- Wodin's day
- Thor's day
- Freyr's day
- Saturn's day (okay that ones roman)
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Yes but if I remember correctly, each of those Norse gods are correlated with the Roman gods who share names with planets, which is how you can draw a connection between the planets and weekdays for English. The same connection exists in many languages across the world including Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese.
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you're thinking of the greeks. the norse gods were separate.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/etymologies-for-every-day-of-the-week
Separate, but they still had equivalents / parallels. Tuesday is named after the god of war, Thursday is named after the sky/thunder god.
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To specify, this was a retroactive correlation from a time when the Romans thought that maybe the barbarians were worshipping the same gods but just used different names for the gods. To my understanding, they drew correlations to a handful of other religions too
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