Learn about where the 7 days of the week come from and who named the days of the week. Also see how the planets and different gods relate to the...
There are a number of modern names imitating the naming of Thursday after an equivalent of “Jupiter” in local tradition In most of the languages of India, the word for Thursday is Guruvāra – vāra meaning day and Guru being the style for Bṛhaspati, guru to the gods and regent of...
The Ancient Greeks Named the Days of the Week After Their Gods Sometime around the 12th century BC, the ancient Greek civilization grew in prominence, and they adopted the Babylonian system of marking time. They continued to recognize the prominence of the sun and the moon, calling two days ...
Days (dies) are so called from 'the gods' (deus, ablative plural diis), whose names the Romans conferred upon certain astral bodies, for they named the first day from the sun, which is the chief of all the astral bodies, just as that day is the head of all the days. The second ...
The Western names for days of the week. Prelude to origins of the names of the days of the week in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Mongolian.
Finding the Day The planetary hour system is the source for the planetary days and the seven days of the week. According to English classics scholar Leofranc Holford-Strevens, “the week as we know it is the fusion of two conceptually different cycles: the planetary week, originally beginning...
It was not quite Hastings but it inspired the jingle, “at the creek of Baginbun, Ireland was lost and won”. On August 23, Strongbow arrived with a large army on the other side of Waterford Harbour at Passage. Carew joined him in an assault on Waterford, which fell after a brutal ...
Interesting for the past few days the sun doesn’t set until after 11:00 at night and rises before 3:00 in the morning but during that 4 hours of nightfall its not dark and actually still light enough you could play tennis or golf. We had to check out of our hotel by 11:00 in...
A 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY is usually something to take pride in — something to celebrate! And, yes, the 100-year milestone of the 1914 date truly is something to celebrate. But not for the same reasons that the majority of Jehovah’s Witnesses are giving s
Calendar - Months, Days, Holidays: The months of the Jewish year and the notable days are as follows: The Muslim era is computed from the starting point of the year of the emigration (Hijrah [Hegira]); that is, from the year in which Muhammad, the