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- bjk1961Lv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
This guy named Wayne named the days of the week. He lives next door. He's always bragging about how he named the days of the week, except Thursday. For some reason, he let his friend, Lewis, name Thursday.
Apparently, Wayne also named the letters of the alphabet. He doesn't brag about that as much. I think he may not want anyone to look too closely at that. Maybe he plagiarized some of the names. Anyway, his name is Wayne.
- 10 years ago
Originally the days were named for what the Romans saw as the furthest to nearest heavenly bodies to the earth. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon. This is also why we have a 7-day cycle: It was instituted by Rome. But Constantine the Great changed the days of the week in 321 AD to the names of the Norse gods, leaving Saturday, Sunday, and Monday alone probably because those days were not the important ones to the Norse people. So the days now are:
Sunday (after the Sun), Monday (after the moon), Tuesday (after Tewis, a Germanic God), Wednesday (after Wodin, aka Odin, a Germanic God), Thursday (after Thor, a Germanic God), Friday (after Frigg, a Norse Goddess) and Saturday (after Saturn, a Roman God).
I'm sure Friday's origin will get a lot of comments, but let's keep it clean here.
Steve
- 10 years ago
The days of the week were named during the Middle Ages (Perhaps earlier) it is unknown exactly who named them, but it is known that they were named after pagan gods for the most part.
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- 10 years ago
Jesus Christ named the seventh day of the week the sabbath unto the LORD. He called each other day by number. The first day He created light, our Sunday.
- Anonymous10 years ago
by middle ages people