2007-02-04 18:21:43 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because you weren't there to suggest this idea.
2007-02-04 18:24:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The days are of the week were named after some gods and these god are mostly the Sun,Moon and some of the Great Kings that rule at that time just as there are status of human heads in the money we use today and it's a sign of greatness and to keep the people to remember that there once live a great time when some thing happened and someone live and he was worth to be remembered.
2007-02-05 02:52:21 · answer #2 · answered by Victor J 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In Ukrainian:
Sunday = No work
Monday = The Day After No Work
Tuesday =
Wednesday = The Centre
Thursday = The Fourth Day
Friday = The Fifth Day
Saturday = The Sabbath
2007-02-05 02:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some of the old gods do become saints
2007-02-05 02:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The days of the week were developed long before the concept of Saints.
2007-02-05 02:25:39 · answer #5 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the Julian calendar upon which our present day calendar is based was created during the days of the Roman empire before Christ was born and Christianity became a religion.
2007-02-05 02:28:59 · answer #6 · answered by Sicilian Godmother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is suprising that when Christianity reached Europe that no attempt was made to change that, well not successfully. It's the same in other European languages too.....
Maybe the Norse-Germanic tradition was fully rooted in the 5th to 7th century culture, but I doubt it somehow.
2007-02-05 02:28:53 · answer #7 · answered by Bart S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because half of your so called saints are just new tellings of the exploits of the Pagan gods.
2007-02-05 02:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same thing can be said of the planets. We live in an ungodly world.
2007-02-05 02:27:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
old gods are more interesting
2007-02-05 02:24:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋