Who are the days of the week named after and why?
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The Seven-Day Week\n\nThe Babylonians marked time with lunar months. They proscribed some activities during several days of the month, particularly the \nfirst -- the first visible crecent,\nseventh -- the waxing half moon,\nfourteenth -- the full moon,\nnineteenth -- dedicated to an offended goddess,\ntwenty-first -- the waning half moon,\ntwenty-eigth -- the last visible crecent,\ntwenty-nineth -- the invisible moon, and\nthirtieth (possibly) -- the invisible moon. \n\nThe major periods are seven days, 1/4 month, long. This seven-day period was later regularized and disassociated from the lunar month to become our seven-day week. \n\nThe Naming of the Days\n\nThe 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. \n\nSunday -- Sun's day\nMiddle English sone(n)day or sun(nen)day\nOld English sunnandæg "day of the sun"\nGermanic sunnon-dagaz "day of the sun"\nLatin dies solis "day of the sun"\nAncient Greek hemera heli(o)u, "day of the sun"\n\nMonday -- Moon's day\nMiddle English monday or mone(n)day\nOld English mon(an)dæg "day of the moon"\nLatin dies lunae "day of the moon"\nAncient Greek hemera selenes "day of the moon"\n\nTuesday -- Tiu's day\nMiddle English tiwesday or tewesday\nOld English tiwesdæg "Tiw's (Tiu's) day"\nLatin dies Martis "day of Mars"\nAncient Greek hemera Areos "day of Ares"\n\nTiu (Twia) is the English/Germanic god of war and the sky. He is identified with the Norse god Tyr. \n\nMars is the Roman god of war. \n\nAres is the Greek god of war. \n\nWednesday -- Woden's day\nMiddle English wodnesday, wednesday, or wednesdai\nOld English wodnesdæg "Woden's day"\nLatin dies Mercurii "day of Mercury"\nAncient Greek hemera Hermu "day of Hermes"\n\nWoden is the chief Anglo-Saxon/Teutonic god. Woden is the leader of the Wild Hunt. Woden is from wod "violently insane" + -en "headship". He is identified with the Norse Odin. \n\nMercury is the Roman god of commerce, travel, theivery, eloquence and science. He is the messenger of the other gods. \n\nHermes is the Greek god of commerce, invention, cunning, and theft. He is the messenger and herald of the other gods. He serves as patron of travelers and rogues, and as the conductor of the dead to Hades. \n\nThursday -- Thor's day\nMiddle English thur(e)sday\nOld English thursdæg\nOld Norse thorsdagr "Thor's day"\nOld English thunresdæg "thunder's day"\nLatin dies Jovis "day of Jupiter"\nAncient Greek hemera Dios "day of Zeus". \nThor is the Norse god of thunder. He is represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Miölnir. He is the defender of the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent. \n\nJupiter (Jove) is the supreme Roman god and patron of the Roman state. He is noted for creating thunder and lightning. \n\nZeus is Greek god of the heavens and the supreme Greek god. \n\nFriday -- Freya's day\nMiddle English fridai\nOld English frigedæg "Freya's day"\ncomposed of Frige (genetive singular of Freo) + dæg "day" (most likely)\nor composed of Frig "Frigg" + dæg "day" (least likely)\nGermanic frije-dagaz "Freya's (or Frigg's) day"\nLatin dies Veneris "Venus's day"\nAncient Greek hemera Aphrodites "day of Aphrod
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Fiday is the name of the hors eis the only logical answer, he rode in on a horse, stayed for three days, and left on a horse, make perfect sense.\nP.S. Friday shoudl be capitalized becasue the days of the week is proper noun
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the hours of each day are associated with a planet in descending order, beginning with Saturn. Each day is ruled by its first hour, so the week begins with Saturday. Since there are 24 hours in the day, each day runs through all the planets three times (3x7), with a remainder of three (3x7+3 =24). Thus the first hour of the day following Saturday is ruled by the Sun, and becomes Sunday. Consequently, it is simply an artifact of the sequence of days generated in this way that the planets in ascending order can by read off every other day. \n\nThe ancient Egyptians had a ten-day week, and so did the Chinese. The ancient Assyrians invented the seven-day week, and the names of days of the week that we use even today are based on a system of assigning the five planets visible to the naked eye, the sun, and the moon to the seven days of the week. \n\nsaturn-saturday\nsun- sunday\nmoon-monday\nmars-tuesday\nmercury-wednesday\njupiter-thursday\nvenus-friday\n\nTiu, Woden, Thor, and Freya are used instead of their Roman counterparts, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus.\n\nancient egyptain words were in hyroglyphics, so you'd have to look up the symbols, but these names willhelp you find the symbols
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May day, is generally the first Monday in May, (in Britain). May day was originally all about new life, and I believe worshipping Mother Nature. It is the day Morris Dancers can dance around a Maypole, without looking too silly. It is also what people say if they need help, mayday, is from the French, meaning 'help me'. SOS means Save Our Souls.
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The 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' has:\n"Sunday is expressly distinguished from the Sabbath which it follows chronologically every week".\n\nThe Word of God has:\n"But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God..."\n(Exodus 20:10, KJV)\n\n"It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest,... at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath."\n(Leviticus 23:32)\n\nThe cycle of the seventh day has not changed in about 6000 years.  The major portion of the Sabbath falls on what we call Saturday.
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I'm not sure why you reference the Orthodox calendar but Yes, St Lawrence of Rome's memorial is August 10.\n\nAccording to BehindTheName.com, Lorena is latinized form of LAUREN, which is a feminine form of LAURENCE, which is from the Roman cognomen Laurentius, which meant "of Laurentum". Laurentum was a city in ancient Italy, its name probably deriving from Latin laurus "laurel". \n\nThere are several other St. Laurences if you would like to look into some others.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Sabbath is the 'day of rest' and is put aside for God.\nWhich day for you depends on your religion, I think for Jews it lasts from sunset friday to sunset Saturday. (please someone correct me if I'm wrong)\nFor Christians, it is Sunday.
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It is conjectured that the seven day week as we know it was developed by the Babylonians over 3000 years ago. Historians believe that the Babylonians were avid astronomers. They based many of their mathematical systems (including their calculations of time) on the movement of the heavenly bodies. The first convenient division of time to be devised (after the day) was the month because it could be tracked by observing the cycles of the moon. It was at some point deemed convenient by Babylonian scholars to find a division of time greater than the day and shorter than the month. The big problem was that a cycle of the moon lasted about 29 and a half days. No round number of days divides evenly into 29 and a half - 4 was the best division they could find. So they went with the seven day week and worried about the loose change of extra days later. \n\nThroughout the world various systems for the week had developed. The most popular competition for the seven day week was the 10 day week. Yet the ten day week proved to be too long for those looking forward to the weekend. Besides, adoption of the seven day week by the Hebrews would ensure its longevity over other forms; during the early Christian Era it grew in popularity with the popularity of both Judaism and Christianity. The Christians converted the Romans and the Romans forcibly converted the remainder of the civilized world. In this way the creation story, where God creates the universe in six days and then rests on the seventh, became a model for the activities of all mankind. \n\nSo today we still use the seven day week. Only now, as a tribute to man's productivity, we rest two days a week. Like the week itself, each day of the week has its own particular story.
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Sunday -- Sun's day\nMonday -- Moon's day\nTuesday -- Tiu's day\nWednesday -- Woden's day\nThursday -- Thor's day\nFriday -- Freya's day\nSaturday -- Saturn's Day
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sunday- sun\nmonday-moon \ntuesday- mars\nwednesday-mercury\nthursday-jupiter\nfriday-venus\nsaturday-saturn
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Monday, is the first day of the week.  God made the Earth in six days and rested on the seventh which is Sunday the last day of the week.  They put Sunday the first day of the week on the calendar so people don't get Saturday & Sunday mixed up.
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You already know its Tuesday from the other answers.\n\nHere's what I'll add. You can look up AND day with this virtual calendar:
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Try here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
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Catholics and most Protestants use the new Gregorian calendar decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.\n\nThe Greek Orthodox Church uses the old Julian calendar introduced in 46 BC by Julius Caesar.
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BLUE MONDAY - "It is an unquestioned fact that during the Middle Ages the Monday before the beginning of Lent was called Blue Monday - but there are two schools of thought as to why it got that name. One holds that the churches were decorated in blue on that day. Another believes that because so many people spent the weekend before Lent in drunken revels, they woke up mighty 'blue' and hung over on that Monday morning. And then there's a later version of the origin of blue Monday, this one stemming from the days of sailing ships. Monday - any Monday - was flogging day. Errant sailors were brought before the mast and flogged until they were black and blue." From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988).\n\nBLUE MONDAY\nFats Domino\n\nBlue Monday, how I hate blue Monday\nGot to work like a slave all day\nHere come Tuesday, oh hard Tuesday\nI'm so tired, got no time to play\nHere come Wednesday, I'm beat to my socks\nMy gal calls, got to tell her that I'm out\n'Cause Thursday is a hard workin' day\nAnd Friday I'll get my pay\n\nSaturday morning, oh Saturday morning\nAll my tiredness has gone away\nGot my money and my honey\nAnd I'm out on the town to play\nSunday morning, my head is bad\nBut it's worth it, for the times that I've had\nBut I've got to get my rest\n'Cause Monday is a mess
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umm... it took me a long time but i found it out. I think that it falls on a thursday. if this helped, please pick this as best answer. thank you!
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Most Latin-based languages connect each day of the week with one of the seven "planets" of the ancient times: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. French, for example, uses:\n\nEnglish French "Planet"\nMonday         lundi   Moon\nTuesday mardi   Mars\nWednesday mercredi  Mercury\nThursday jeudi   Jupiter\nFriday         vendredi  Venus\nSaturday samedi   Saturn\nSunday         dimanche  (Sun)