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I suggest Thursday!

by phreack 5y ago

I suggest Thursday!

macintux 5y ago
Wouldn’t Wednesday (Woden’s Day) be more appropriate?
- nicoburns 5y ago
  Thursday is literally named after jupiter in latin and latin based languages (french, spanish, etc)
  - cobbzilla 5y ago
    The Germanic Thursday is “Thor’s day”, I guess Jupiter is more like Thor than Odin/Woden.
    - SirFatty 5y ago
      Old English/Norse.
      - cobbzilla 5y ago
        to be more specific, yes. I was going with the least specific branch of the tree that was still different and widely recognizable.
    - dkersten 5y ago
      Even "Thor's day" is linked to Jupiter, in that Thor and thunder gods were the equivalent of the thunder god Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday#Thor's_day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday#Thor's_day
  - aylons 5y ago
    Ha, just now I realized "Jeudi"... lucky day today! But just some romance languages. Portuguese does not.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - globular-toast 5y ago
    All seven days of the week are named after the classical planets, or the Germanic/Norse equivalent of the Roman gods: Mercury (Wednesday, Woden/Odin's day), Venus (Friday, Frig's day), Mars (Tuesday, Tiw's day), Jupiter (Thursday, Thor's day), Saturn (Saturday), the Sun (Sunday), and the Moon (Monday). Some make more sense in other languages, e.g. French has Lundi (Lune/Moon), mardi (Mars), mercredi (Mercury), jôdi (Jupiter), vendredi (Venus) (samedi refers to the Sabbath and dimanche to God, though).
    - YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
      The naming of the days of the week after the planets isn't obvious. The English names of days are taken from the old norse gods, as you say, but the association with the planets goes back to Roman times and it's rather obscure. Here are the names of the days of the week and their associated planets (and the old norse gods that give them their English names, as you list them too): Monday --> Moon (Moon's day) Tuesday --> Mars (or Tyr's day) Wednesday --> Mercury (Wodan's day) Thursday --> Jupiter (Thor's day) Friday --> Venus (Freya's day) Saturday --> Saturn (duh) Sunday --> Sun (and duh) Why are the days associated with celestial bodies in that order? Mars is not between the moon and mercury, in the sky. Saturn is furthest, not closes to the sun! But this was not exactly known in ancient times. Rather, the luminaries (the sun, the moon and five planets) are ordered, in the Ptolemaic universe, according to their apparent speed in the night sky, from slowest to fastest, which the ancients took to mean corresponded to a planet's distance from the Earth (since the farthest-away planet had to make a longer orbit): Saturn Jupiter Mars the Sun Venus Mercury the Moon But this is still not the order in which the days of the week are ordered, according to their association with a luminary. Saturn's day, Saturday, is not before Jupiter's day, Thursday, in the week! The hidden detail is that the ancients regarded the luminaries as "ruling over" an hour of the day. Each day took the name of the luminary that ruled over its first day. So the first luminary, Saturn, the furthest from the Earth, ruled over the first hour of the first day of the week, which for the ancients was Saturday. The second luminary, Jupiter, ruled over the second hour and so on, for all 24 hours in a day, in a repeating cycle. Since there were 7 luminaries, the cycle repeated three times in each 24-hour day, with 3 hours left over. When a new day began, the luminary that ruled over its first hour was the luminary three over from the one that ruled over the first hour of the previous day. So the day ruled over by the first luminary, Saturn, Saturday, is followed by the day ruled over by the luminary three over from Saturn, the Sun: Sunday. To mess things up even more, the ancients had a second, "dark" day, and a dark week, where the days were named by the luminary that ruled over the first hour of nighttime (where the ordinary days were named after the luminary ruling over the first hour of daylight). So for instance, when the "light day" was Thursday, the "dark" day was Monday. The dark week starts on the 13th hour of each day (the 13th hour from sunrise). I have no idea how the ancients managed daylight savings time :P Anyway our days of the week have a tinge of ancient astrological magic to them. Remember that to the ancients, astrology and astronomy were still the same thing. Our knowledge became more practical as time went by and less magickal. Or, like I like to say, we finally found a magic that works.
- Chris2048 5y ago
  I think Jupiter was also Zeus, but not AFAIK Odin. https://www.ancient-literature.com/are-zeus-and-odin-the-same/ https://www.ancient-literature.com/are-zeus-and-odin-the-sam...
- sillyquiet 5y ago
  Odin is not Zeus, although in he assumed a lot of Zeus's place in the Norse pantheon. The mostly forgotten proto-Germanic god Tyr's name however is cognate with Zeus, Jupiter, Dyaus, and the other sky father gods.
- obelos 5y ago
  Wednesday is the planetary day of Mercury, who is more cognate with Odin.
osrec 5y ago
In Hindu culture, Jupiter is known as Brihaspati, and Thursday is known as Brihaspati-var (the day dedicated to Jupiter).
mongol 5y ago
I suggest Saturnday

I suggest Thursday!

macintux 5y ago

Wouldn’t Wednesday (Woden’s Day) be more appropriate?

nicoburns 5y ago
Thursday is literally named after jupiter in latin and latin based languages (french, spanish, etc)
- cobbzilla 5y ago
  The Germanic Thursday is “Thor’s day”, I guess Jupiter is more like Thor than Odin/Woden.
  - SirFatty 5y ago
    Old English/Norse.
    - cobbzilla 5y ago
      to be more specific, yes. I was going with the least specific branch of the tree that was still different and widely recognizable.
  - dkersten 5y ago
    Even "Thor's day" is linked to Jupiter, in that Thor and thunder gods were the equivalent of the thunder god Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday#Thor's_day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday#Thor's_day
- aylons 5y ago
  Ha, just now I realized "Jeudi"... lucky day today! But just some romance languages. Portuguese does not.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- globular-toast 5y ago
  All seven days of the week are named after the classical planets, or the Germanic/Norse equivalent of the Roman gods: Mercury (Wednesday, Woden/Odin's day), Venus (Friday, Frig's day), Mars (Tuesday, Tiw's day), Jupiter (Thursday, Thor's day), Saturn (Saturday), the Sun (Sunday), and the Moon (Monday). Some make more sense in other languages, e.g. French has Lundi (Lune/Moon), mardi (Mars), mercredi (Mercury), jôdi (Jupiter), vendredi (Venus) (samedi refers to the Sabbath and dimanche to God, though).
  - YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
    The naming of the days of the week after the planets isn't obvious. The English names of days are taken from the old norse gods, as you say, but the association with the planets goes back to Roman times and it's rather obscure. Here are the names of the days of the week and their associated planets (and the old norse gods that give them their English names, as you list them too): Monday --> Moon (Moon's day) Tuesday --> Mars (or Tyr's day) Wednesday --> Mercury (Wodan's day) Thursday --> Jupiter (Thor's day) Friday --> Venus (Freya's day) Saturday --> Saturn (duh) Sunday --> Sun (and duh) Why are the days associated with celestial bodies in that order? Mars is not between the moon and mercury, in the sky. Saturn is furthest, not closes to the sun! But this was not exactly known in ancient times. Rather, the luminaries (the sun, the moon and five planets) are ordered, in the Ptolemaic universe, according to their apparent speed in the night sky, from slowest to fastest, which the ancients took to mean corresponded to a planet's distance from the Earth (since the farthest-away planet had to make a longer orbit): Saturn Jupiter Mars the Sun Venus Mercury the Moon But this is still not the order in which the days of the week are ordered, according to their association with a luminary. Saturn's day, Saturday, is not before Jupiter's day, Thursday, in the week! The hidden detail is that the ancients regarded the luminaries as "ruling over" an hour of the day. Each day took the name of the luminary that ruled over its first day. So the first luminary, Saturn, the furthest from the Earth, ruled over the first hour of the first day of the week, which for the ancients was Saturday. The second luminary, Jupiter, ruled over the second hour and so on, for all 24 hours in a day, in a repeating cycle. Since there were 7 luminaries, the cycle repeated three times in each 24-hour day, with 3 hours left over. When a new day began, the luminary that ruled over its first hour was the luminary three over from the one that ruled over the first hour of the previous day. So the day ruled over by the first luminary, Saturn, Saturday, is followed by the day ruled over by the luminary three over from Saturn, the Sun: Sunday. To mess things up even more, the ancients had a second, "dark" day, and a dark week, where the days were named by the luminary that ruled over the first hour of nighttime (where the ordinary days were named after the luminary ruling over the first hour of daylight). So for instance, when the "light day" was Thursday, the "dark" day was Monday. The dark week starts on the 13th hour of each day (the 13th hour from sunrise). I have no idea how the ancients managed daylight savings time :P Anyway our days of the week have a tinge of ancient astrological magic to them. Remember that to the ancients, astrology and astronomy were still the same thing. Our knowledge became more practical as time went by and less magickal. Or, like I like to say, we finally found a magic that works.
Chris2048 5y ago
I think Jupiter was also Zeus, but not AFAIK Odin. https://www.ancient-literature.com/are-zeus-and-odin-the-same/ https://www.ancient-literature.com/are-zeus-and-odin-the-sam...
sillyquiet 5y ago
Odin is not Zeus, although in he assumed a lot of Zeus's place in the Norse pantheon. The mostly forgotten proto-Germanic god Tyr's name however is cognate with Zeus, Jupiter, Dyaus, and the other sky father gods.
obelos 5y ago
Wednesday is the planetary day of Mercury, who is more cognate with Odin.

osrec 5y ago

In Hindu culture, Jupiter is known as Brihaspati, and Thursday is known as Brihaspati-var (the day dedicated to Jupiter).

mongol 5y ago

I suggest Saturnday