What are the definitions of the days of the week? and where do the names come from?
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Monday - Named for the day of the moon\nTuesday - Named for Germanic god Tiw.\nWednesday - Named for Norse god of war and wisdom, Woden (Odin).\nThursday - Named for Norse god Thor\nFriday - Named for Norse goddess Frigg\nSaturday - Named for the day of Saturn\n\nThese names are older than you and me..
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Personally I consider Monday the beginning of a new week.  For me it goes "the week" (Mon-Fri), then weekend (Sat & Sun) and then it all starts over.
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a Thursday's yesterday is Wed.\n\nso, saying the first part differently:\n\n  "If the day after tomorrow's yesterday is Wed....."\n\nTommorow's yesterday is today.\n\nSo, revising the first part again:\n\n  "If the day after today is Wed......"\n\nSo "today" must be Tues.\n\n6 weeks and a day after Tuesday is a Wed.\n\nAnswer: WEDNESDAY\n\nAt least I explained it!
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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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Wednesday came from - wodnes dæg, meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden who was a god of the Anglo-Saxons in England \n\nWednesday is considered either the third or the fourth day of the week, between Tuesday and Thursday. The name comes from the Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English Wodnes dæg, meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden who was a god of the Anglo-Saxons in England until about the 7th century AD. Wodnes dæg is like the Old Norse Othinsdagr ("Odin's day"), which is an early translation of the Latin dies Mercurii ("Mercury's day"). Although Mercury (the messenger of the gods) and Woden (the king of the Germanic gods) are not equivalent in most regards, both gods guided the souls of the dead to the underworld.
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Sunday First day of the week.\nDerived from the Latin dies solis, "sun's day," a pagan Roman holiday. \nMonday Second day of the week.\nDerived from the Anglo-Saxon monandaeg, which means "the moon's day." Latin: dies lunae, "day of the moon."  \nTuesday Third day of the week.\nNamed for the Norse god of war, Tiu, or Tyr, the son of Odin. \nWednesday Fourth day of the week.\nNamed to honor Odin, or Woden, chief god in Norse mythology. Onsdag in Sweden and Denmark. \nThursday Fifth day of the week.\nNamed for Thor, Norse god of thunder. Torsdag in Sweden and Denmark. \nFriday Sixth day of the week. \nNamed for the Norse goddess of love, Frigg, or Frija. Variation of the Old High German frìatag, "day of Frija." \nSaturday Seventh day of the week.\nNamed in honor of the Roman god Saturn. Latin: Saturni. \nSater-daeg by the Anglo-Saxons.
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It depends which day; you call the seventh day Sabbath. Catholics admit the Sabbath is Saturday (evidence enclosed).\n\nThe Sabbath is from Friday Evening to Saturday Evening; Jews still keep it as some christians. No work is to be done this day.\nJesus himself told us to keep this day (John 4:22-24).\n"Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews." John 4:22\nNotice Jesus was saying that we should worship Saturday like the Jews.\n\nLook Sabbath up in Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol.24, pp.68-69.\nThe Calendar also tells us the 7th day is Saturday.\n\nIf you look up Genesis 1:8; it tells us that the evening and morning were the second day. Lev.23:32 says from evening to evening to celebrate the Sabbath.\n\nGENESIS 2:2-3 "AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE; AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE. AND GOD BLESSED THE THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT: BECAUSE THAT IN IT HE HAD RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH GOD CREATED AND MADE." {sanctify = to set apart; make holy}\n\nEXODUS 20:8-11 "REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY. SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD: IN IT THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY DAUGHTER, THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THY CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES: FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS, AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY: WHEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY, AND HALLOWED IT." {the 4th Commandment}\n\nREV.14:7 "SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, FEAR GOD, AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM; FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGEMENT IS COME; AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATER."{fear God means reverence him; also this text points back to the 4th Commandment}\n\nLEV.23:3 "SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF REST, AN HOLY CONVOCATION; YE SHALL DO NO WORK THERIN: IT IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS."\n\nDEUT.5:12-14 "KEEP THE SABBATH DAY TO SANCTIFY IT, AS THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE. SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK: BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD: IN IT THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY DAUGHTER, THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THINE OX, NOR THINE ***, NOR ANY OF THINE CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES: THAT THY MANSERVANT AND THY MAIDSERVANT MAY REST AS WELL AS THOU."\n\n{Jesus's Example= "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:..-1PETER 2:21}\nLUKE 4:16 "AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP: AND, AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP TO READ."\n\nMARK 2:23-28 "AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT HE WENT THROUGH THE CORN FIELDS ON THE SABBATH DAY; AND HIS DISCIPLES BEGAN, AS THEY WENT, TO PLUCK THE EARS OF CORN. AND THE PHARISEES SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, WHY DO THEY ON THE SABBATH DAY THAT WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE NEVER READ WHAT DAVID DID, WHEN HE HAD NEED, AND WAS AN HUNGRED, HE, AND THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM? HOW HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD IN THE DAYS OF ABIATHAR THE HIGH PRIEST, AND DID EAT THE SHEW BREAD, WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL TO EAT BUT FOR THE PRIESTS, AND GAVE ALSO TO THEM WHICH WERE WITH HIM? AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH: THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS LORD ALSO OF THE SABBATH." {The Pharisees thought his disciples were breaking the Sabbath by plucking and eating corn; but Jesus told them it wasn't work. Jesus healed on the sabbath as helped people. On the Sabbath day you can even warm meals as boil water for oatmeal on the Sabbath. The work that you cannot do is cooking meals because it takes an h
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Monday and Thursday,\nBut can you be more specific about what you mean exactly.
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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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Twenty-four-hour days, originated from ancient Egyptian sundials that divided the daylight into 12 equal segments. Sixty-minute hours and 60-second minutes are are from the ancient Mesopotamian sexigesimal numbering system, or base 60.\n     after the French Revolution the new government implemented  a decimal time system, or base ten. The french idea never took root and so we still have what we have today.\n \nneat question thanks for asking\n\npeace to you,\n\nBondservant
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The Sabbath is the Sabbath.  God never changed it, Jesus never changed it, the desciples never changed it.  The Lords Day, is also the Sabbath, unless you are looking for a way to justify going to church on monday, or teusday, aor any other day that you want to identify as the Lords.\n\nThat being said, nobody is going to Heaven nor hell based on thinking that one day is better than another.
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1.  Thursday\n2.  Thursday\n3.  Sunday
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The common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.\n\nThe first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.\n\nExtra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.\n\nThere are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.\n\nOne viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).
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The first day of the week, Sunday, since ancient times has been designated the "day of rest". For Christians it is the holy day of the week, due to the fact that Christ was reported to have risen from the dead upon this day. \nYet the name of Sunday has nothing to do with Christianity, but everything to do with even more ancient religions. The ancient Greeks knew that the sun was the source of life on the planet and they gave it prime importance in their thinking. When the Romans later adopted the seven day week they emphasize their respect for the sun by naming the first day of the week for it..."dies solis"..."day of the sun". \n\nThe actual word "Sunday" is derived from the German word "Sonntag" (and they likely got it from the Scandanavians). These folk too placed a great deal of importance on the sun. Some tribes of these Germanic peoples invaded England in the 500's or so. They were known as the Angles and the Saxons. The old English work was "sunnandaeg" and it changed over time to become our current, "Sunday". \n\nThere are several holidays that are traditionally held on Sunday. Mother's Day (second Sunday in May) and Father's Day (third Sunday in June) began to be celebrated rather recently, 1914 and 1924 respectively. Easter is an ancient holiday that was officially designated by the Church in the year 325. Its position on the calendar has confused lay people for centuries. The date is calculated by taking the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the 21st of March.
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An excellent book on the subject of calendars is: 'The Calendar - The 5000-Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Days' by David Ewing Duncan.\n\nThe phenomenon known as an equinox is one of the reasons concerning longer and shorter days and is often defined as: 'the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and when the length of day and night are approximately equal; the vernal equinox or the autumnal equinox.'\n\nHope this helps.
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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