by Magi Monday - Moon Tuesday - Mars Wednesday - Mercury Thursday - Jupiter Friday - Venus Saturday - Saturn Sunday - Sun
English has retained the original planets in the names for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. For the four other days, however, the names of Anglo-Saxon or Nordic gods have replaced the Roman gods that gave name to the planets. So, Tuesday is named after Tiw, Wednesday is named after Woden, Thursday is named after Thor, and Friday is named after Freya. As shown above, the planets have given the week days their names following this order: Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Sun Why this particular order? One theory goes as follows: If you order the "planets" according to either their presumed distance from Earth (assuming the Earth to be the centre of the universe) or their period of revolution around the Earth, you arrive at this order: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Now, assign (in reverse order) these planets to the hours of the day: 1=Saturn,
2=Jupiter,
3=Mars,
4=Sun,
5=Venus,
6=Mercury,
7=Moon,
8=Saturn,
9=Jupiter, etc.,
23=Jupiter,
24=Mars
Then, the next day will then continue where the old day left off: 1=Sun, 2=Venus, etc., 23=Venus, 24=Mercury And the next day will go 1=Moon, 2=Saturn, etc. If you look at the planet assigned to the first hour of each day, you will note that the planets come in this order: Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus This is exactly the order of the associated week days. Coincidence? Maybe. |
