Tuesday?
See i'm trying this Root-naming thing, and i was wondering if it was only the God Tyr, or if there were other gods from different pantheons that gave there names to different days of the week?
Thanks!
2007-02-28 12:32:45 · 9 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sunna gives her name to the first day of the week, Sunna's day or Sunday. Sunna of course is the Goddess of sunshine.
Monday is named after the God Mani. (He was a deity associated with the moon.)
Among the Anglo-Saxons, Tyr was known as Tiu. His name lives on in the third day of the week, Tuesday or Tiu's Day. The Romans identified him with Mars, their God of war, but that doesn't do Tyr justice (pun intended). He was originally a Sky father type deity, a God of sovereignty, right order, and justice.
The Anglo-Saxons called Odin, Woden, from which we get the name of the fourth day of the week, Wednesday...or Woden's Day.
Thor gives his name to the fifth day of the week, Thursday...or Thor's Day.
Friday, or Frigga's Day, is named in the Goddess Frigga's honor. She is more than just Odin's wife, she's the All-Mother.
Saturday was named after the Roman God of time, death, and taxes, Saturn. This is the only day named after a God who isn't part of a Northern European pantheon.
2007-02-28 14:37:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tyr.
It was named for Mars in the Roman world. Tyr was the equivalent god in the Scandinavian world. In Old English Tyr was rendered Tiw, Tew or Tiu.
2007-02-28 20:37:14 · answer #2 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The days of the week are named for the Norse gods.
Wednesday - Odin
Thursday - Thor
Friday - Freya
Saturday - Saturn
Sunday and Monday, the first two days of the week, are obviously named for the sun and moon.
2007-02-28 20:37:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In English, all the days of the week are named for Germanic Gods except Saturday
Sunday - - - the Sun God went by many names
Monday -- - -the Moon God
Tuesday ---- Tiew's day God of reproduction ( many spellings )
Wednesday -- - Woden's day Woden chief of the Gods
Thursday -- - Thor's day God of war - - lightning, thunder
Friday - - - Frida -- - wife of Woden
Saturday- - - Saturn day God of planting and harvesting
2007-02-28 20:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tueseldorf, god of two-fors, as in two Led Zeppelin songs back to back. Every Tuesday, on KXUS FM!!!!!! The Home of Rock 'N Roll!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, it's Tyr.
2007-02-28 20:37:28 · answer #5 · answered by RabidBunyip 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sun - Sunday.
Moon - Monday.
Tyr - Tuesday.
Odin/Woden - Wednesday.
Thor - Thursday.
Freyja - Friday.
Saturn - Saturday.
All of these figures and planets were regarded as deities in ancient times.
2007-02-28 20:37:33 · answer #6 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Monday: The name Monday comes from the Old English MÅnandæg, meaning "day of the Moon"; it is a translation of the Latin name dies Lunae (cf. Romance language versions of the name, e.g., French lundi)
Tuesday: Tuesday comes from the Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning "Tyr's day." Tyr (in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu) was the Nordic god of single combat and heroic glory in Norse mythology. The name is based on Latin dies Martis, "Day of Mars" (the Roman war god); compare French mardi and Spanish martes.
Wednesday: This name comes from the Old English Wodnesdæg meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden, more commonly known as Odin, who was the highest god in Norse mythology, and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons (and other places) in England until about the seventh century. It is based on Latin dies Mercurii, "Day of Mercury"; compare French mercredi and Spanish miércoles. The connection between Mercury and Odin is more strained than the other syncretic connections. The usual explanation is that both Odin and Mercury were considered psychopomps, or leaders of souls, in their respective mythologies. However, in Old Norse myth, Odin, like Mercury, is associated with poetic and musical inspiration.
Thursday: The name Thursday comes from the Old English Ãunresdæg, meaning the day of Ãunor, commonly known in Modern English as Thor, the Germanic and Norse god of thunder. It is based on the Latin dies Iovis, "Day of Jupiter"; compare French jeudi and Spanish jueves. In the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the chief god, who seized and maintained his power on the basis of his thunderbolt (fulmen).
Friday: The name Friday comes from the Old English frigedæg, meaning the day of Frige, the Germanic goddess of beauty, who is a later incarnation of the Norse goddess Frigg, but also connected to the Goddess Freyja. It is based on the Latin dies Veneris, "Day of Venus"; compare French vendredi and Spanish viernes. Venus was the Roman god of beauty, love, and sex.
Saturday: Saturday is the only day of the week to retain its Roman origin in English, named after the Roman god Saturn associated with the Titan Cronos, father of Zeus and many Olympians. In Latin it was dies Saturni, "Day of Saturn"; compare French samedi and Spanish sábado, which comes from sambata dies (day of the Sabbath).
Sunday: The name Sunday comes from the Old English sunnandæg, meaning the day of the Sun; it is a translation of the Latin phrase dies solis. English, like most of the Germanic languages and several of the Celtic languages, preserves the original pagan/sun associations of the day; many other European languages, including all of the Romance languages, have changed the name of the day to the equivalent of "the Lord's day" (based on Ecclesiastical Latin dies Dominica). Compare Spanish domingo.
2007-02-28 20:39:21 · answer #7 · answered by Melanie T 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's usually the god that gets the credit, yes.
2007-02-28 20:38:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click on the day of the week and learn...
http://www.indepthinfo.com/weekdays/tuesday.shtml
2007-02-28 20:42:12 · answer #9 · answered by Jedi Baptist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋