example:freddy was named after friday(thats just an example not really)
2007-04-30 14:42:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Sunday = Sun Day
Monday = Moon Day
Tuesday = Tiw's Day
Wednesday = Woden (Odin)'s Day
Thursday = Thor's Day
Friday = Frigg's Day
Saturday = Saturn's Day
Or at least that's what I remember hearing
[edit] and yes, Sunday, Monday, and Saturday are NOT from the Norse Mythology.
2007-04-30 14:47:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sunday = from the Old English sunnandæg, meaning the day of the Sun (not Norse)
Monday = from the Old English MÅnandæg, meaning "day of the Moon" (not Norse)
Tuesday = 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
Wednesday = Woden's day
Thursday = Thor's day
Friday = 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.
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.
2007-04-30 21:51:10 · answer #2 · answered by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friday comes from Frieda which is equivalent to venus/aphrodite/isis/semiramis and thursday comes from thor which equivalent to zeus/jupiter/baal/ or lucifer which is the devil!
Sunday is obvious-the sun which is not the sabbath saturday is which named after saturn which is the same as cronos.
Monday-the moon goddess arttemis/diana
tuesday-mars/aries god of war
wednesday-mercury/hermes/horus the messenger
In other words all are days and months are named after evil ruling spirits and the calender we follow is the satanic one....months really start with the new moon and the year doesn't really start in January either!
2007-04-30 22:03:53 · answer #3 · answered by thirdeyeeagle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tuesday - named for Tyr (Tiew in Anglo-Saxon), god of war and the sky
Wednesday - named for Odin (Woden in Anglo-saxon), king of the gods
Thursday - named for Thor, god of thunder and lightning
Friday - named for Freya, goddess of love and beauty and procreation
Sunday, Monday, & Saturday are not derived from Norse names
2007-04-30 21:48:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The days of the week were named after the gods of the seven planets by the ancient Greeks.
The Romans translated these to Roman gods, and the German and English to the names of Germanic gods.
So the GREEK ones were:
(E.G. in Greek Sunday=hemera heliou), so
Sunday, Helios god of the sun;
Monday, Selene goddess of the moon;
Tuesday, Ares god of war;
Wednesday, Hermes messenger of the gods;
Thurday, Zeus god of weather;
Friday, Aphrodite goddess of love;
Saturday, Cronus god of time.
The ROMANS changed these to:
(E.G. in Latin Sunday = dies solis)
Sol,
Luna,
Mars,
Mercury,
Jupiter,
Venus,
Saturn.
Finally the GERMANS and ENGLISH switched them to:
(E.G. Sunday = day of the sun)
Sun,
Moon,
Tyr,
Woden,
Thor,
Freya,
Saturn.
So the goddess of Friday evolved from Greek Aphrodite (hemera aphrodition) to the Latin Venus (dies venera), to the Germanic Freya (Freya's day, later shortened to Friday).
2007-05-01 02:56:00 · answer #5 · answered by Thalia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thursday- Thor
Sorry that's the only one I can come up with right now
2007-04-30 21:45:10 · answer #6 · answered by dancingqueen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tiw's day - Tuesday
Wotan's day - Wednesday
Thor's day - Thursday
Frigg's day - Friday
2007-04-30 21:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋