The ancient Babylonians chose to organize their calendar around 7 days of the week, and each day corresponds to one of the seven “planets” visible to the naked eye. [Planets is in quotations because two–the Sun and the Moon–are technically not planets (they’re luminaries).] Monday ...
Accordingly, they organized their life into a system of seven days, aligned to the seven celestial bodies they could see. The first two days of the week—our Sunday and Monday—were ruled by the Sun and the Moon. The next five were ruled by the planets. Notably, even back then, chillin...
The ordering of the week pertains to the Hellenistic practice of putting the 24 hours of the day under the dominion of each of the planets in order. The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians divided the day into 24 hours, but based on the length of day and of night. They did so by dividin...
The Planetary Hours and the Names and Sequence of the Days of the Week As Lilly notes there are seven days of the week and seven planets and each planet rules or is lord of, one day: Sunday, the Sun; Monday, the Moon; Tuesday, Mars; Wednesday, Mercury; Thursday, Jupiter; Friday, Ve...
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While the Eastern Mediterranean languages reflect variations on a simple numbering of the days of the week, the languages of Western Europe all (except Portuguese) reflect names based on the names of the naked eye planets, which included the Sun and the Moon, either in a Latin version or a...
In ancient cultures, people named the days of the week after celestial bodies. The Ancient Romans identified each day thoughtfully. They used the sun, moon, and the five known planets as inspiration. Monday receives its designation from the moon, which was“diēs Lūnae”to the Romans, or“D...
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Saint Sylvester I, pope from 315 to 335, whose long pontificate saw the beginnings of the Christian Roman Empire.