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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by gerdesj on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:54PM (#32976746)
That sounds quite sensible. From memory, our (en_GB) weekdays are named like this:

Monday -> Moon day

Tuesday -> Tiw's day (Norse)

Wednesday -> Woden's day (Norse - Odin - chief god, one eye, two ravens)

Thursday -> Thor's day (Norse - god with a massive hammer) Friday -> Freya's day (Norse, rode a chariot drawn by cats)

Saturday -> Saturn's day (Roman, also: Saturnalia is the winter festival that eventually became Christmas)

Sunday -> Sun day

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by el-salvador on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:13AM (#32979343)
> That sounds quite sensible. From memory, our (en_GB) weekdays are named like this:

Spanish and English follow a similar day naming convention.

But the god's name needs to be translated from Norse Mitology to Roman Mitology first [1]

Lunes/Monday -> Moon/Luna

Martes/Tuesday -> Tiw/Mars

Miercoles/Wednesday -> Woden/Mercury

Jueves/Thursday -> Thunraz/Jupiter

Viernes/Friday -> Frig/Venus

Sábado/Saturday -> Saturn/Saturno

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by rodric on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:03AM (#32979616)
With the exception of Saturday. Tacitus associated the Hebrew sabbath («sábado») with Saturn, but the word for the day itself is not «saturno» as it would be if it were like English.
Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by GolfPopper on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:47AM (#32979530)
I'd always thought (though I don't have a specific source I can recall), that the seven days of the week was drawn from the seven non-fixed celestial bodies visible ot the naked eye: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The planets were frequently associated with and named after deities, so the days of the week also have the names of deities.
Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by IncRnd on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:06AM (#32979635)
Friday literally means Day of Frigg (Old English), referring to Frigga, the wife of Odin. Yes, Freya is believed to be the same goddess as Frigga, but the day is named after Frigga not Freya.
Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by Accacin on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:10AM (#32980956)
Thurday would probably be 'Þunor's Day' instead of Thor as it's Old English :)