I had a great day.... it was bright and sunny for the most part and 2 inches of rain on Saturday.
2007-11-04 08:25:07 · 19 answers · asked by Icy Gazpacho 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Then Sunday lived up to it's name.
It is the Day of the Sun from the Eygptian calendar.
The days of the week/hours of the day were named after the 7 planets the Eygptians knew and were visible. And have devolped with other languages over time.
Days and years are natural divisions of time based on the astronomical relation of the earth and the sun, but weeks and the names for the days of the week have their source in astrology. The practice of dividing the year into seven-day units is based on the ancient astrological notion that the seven celestial bodies (the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn) influence what happens on earth and that each controls the first hour of the day named for it. This system was brought into Hellenistic Egypt from Mesopotamia, where astrology had been practiced for millennia and where seven had always been a propitious number. The ancient Romans did not divide their calendar into weeks; they named all the days of the month in relation to the ides, calends, and nones. In A.D. 321 Constantine the Great grafted the Hellenistic astrological system onto the Roman calendar, making the first day of the week a day of rest and worship and imposing the following sequence of names on the days: Diēs Sōlis, “Sun's Day”; Diēs Lūnae, “Moon's Day”; Diēs Martis, “Mars's Day”; Diēs Mercuriī, “Mercury's Day”; Diēs Jovis, “Jove's Day” or “Jupiter's Day”; Diēs Veneris, “Venus's Day”; and Diēs Saturnī, “Saturn's Day.” This new Roman system was adopted with modifications throughout most of western Europe. In the Germanic languages, such as Old English, the names of four of the Roman gods were converted into those of the corresponding Germanic gods. Therefore in Old English we have the following names (with their Modern English developments): Sunnandaeg, Sunday; Mōnandaeg, Monday; Tīwesdaeg, Tuesday (Tiu, like Mars, was a god of war); Wōdnesdaeg, Wednesday (Woden, like Mercury, was quick and eloquent); Thunresdaeg, Thursday (Thunor in Old English or Thor in Old Norse, like Jupiter, was lord of the sky; Old Norse Thōrsdagr influenced the English form); Frīgedaeg, Friday (Frigg, like Venus, was the goddess of love); and Saeternesdaeg, Saturday.
2007-11-04 08:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deos Solos! The day of the Sun, or the Venerable Day of the Sun. The days of the week were named for the old pagan gods. Sunday is the traditional day of Sun worship, and has nothing to do with Christianity. The only day that is proscribed as a day of worship in the Bible is the Seventh Day of the week, which is Saturday, the Sabbath! There is not a single 'Thus saith the Lord' for the change in the day of worship.
2007-11-04 08:34:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
becuse in french all of the days stand for a planet
when they were translated they kept SUNday as sunday
In Ptolemaic Egyptian astrology, the seven planets—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon—had an hour of the day assigned to each in that order, but the planet which was "regent" during the first hour of any day of the week gave its name to that day. The Egyptian form of the seven-day week spread to Rome during the first and second century when the Roman names of the planets were given to each successive day.
2007-11-04 08:29:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anon101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about english but I know that in Latin days of the week are named after the planets.. like in french
Lundi (monday) is for Lune (moon)
Mardi (tuesday) - Mars
Mercredi (wednesday) - Mercure (mercury)
Jeudi (thursday) - Jupiter
Vendredi (friday) - Venus
Samedi (Saturday) - Saturn
but I'm not very sure about what sunday is..
2007-11-04 08:47:20 · answer #4 · answered by Nour 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because of the cult of the Sun god in the late roman empire, which is also the reason that sunday is the day of rest.
2007-11-04 08:28:36 · answer #5 · answered by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A. The names of our present weekdays come from paganism
Sunday - Day of the sun god Baal, as well as Ra, Helios, Apollo, Ogmios, Mithrias, and the sun goddess Phoebe
Monday - Day of the moon goddess Selene, Luna and Mani
Tuesday - Day of Tyr/Tir, the god of honorable war & son of Odin/Woden
Wednesday - Day of Odin/Woden, the Norse god of war and Frigga
Thursday - Day of Thor, the god of strength and thunder
Friday - Day of the goddess Frigga
Saturday - Day of Saturn, the god of agriculture.
http://www.biblestudy.org/question/where-did-names-for-days-of-the-week-come-from.html
2007-11-04 08:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by Nikki 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is the pagan "Day of the Sun", the day that the pagan Romans would worship the Sun. In fact, all of our days of the week are named after pagan Roman gods.
2007-11-04 08:37:52 · answer #7 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the days are named after pagan deities : sunday=sun monday=moon wednesday=weddings thursday=thor friday=trees (fir) saturday=saturn
2007-11-04 08:29:07 · answer #8 · answered by wickedawesomem 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know . When people were stating to make words they called a chair a chair. Not everything has to have a meaning or a purpose.
2007-11-04 08:28:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
why is a tree called a tree?
why is a car called a car?
why is a monkey called a monkey?
why is a book called a book?
why is a crayon called a crayon?
why is a computer called a computer?
why is a dog called a dog?
why cant they called it something else?
2007-11-04 08:28:15 · answer #10 · answered by Questioning Machine 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋