Just a quick note to say, today, is
Wednesday! It's Woden's Day or Odin's Day.
SMILE and enjoy :)
FYI:
Sunday is named after Sunne (
Sól), Germanic goddess of the Sun, from which the word
Sun is also derived. The practice of naming the seven days after the then known "planets" goes back to Babylonian or Egyptian times and was adopted by Greeks and Romans.
Monday. It gets its name from the Moon, which in turn gets its name from
Mani (
Old English Mona), the
Germanic Moon god. The
Japanese word for Monday is getsuyōbi (月曜日) which means
day of the moon.
Tuesday: The name comes from
Middle English Twisday, from
Old English Tiwes dæg, named after the
Nordic god
Tyr, who was the equivalent of the Roman war god
Mars, and Greek god
Ares.
Wednesday. The name comes from the
Middle English Wednes dei, which is from
Old English Wēdnes dæg, meaning the day of the
Germanic god
Woden (
Wodan) who was a god of the
Anglo-Saxons in
England until about the
7th century.
Wēdnes dæg is like the
Old Norse Oðinsdagr ("
Odin's day").
Thursday comes from the Old English
Þūnresdæg (pronounced [θuːn.res.dæg] or [θuːn.res.dæj]), meaning the day of Þunor, commonly known in Modern English as
Thor, the god of
thunder in
Norse Mythology and Germanic Paganism
Friday comes from the Old English
Frigedæg (pronounced [fri.je.dæg] or [fri.je.dæj]), meaning the day of Frige, the Germanic goddess of beauty, who is a later incarnation of the Norse goddess
Frigg, but also potentially 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.
And there you have it.
A reason to Celebrate!!
:)