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Date Posted: 17:50:35 08/05/07 Sun
Author: Toy tiger
Subject: Re: The Paganism/Asatru Thread
In reply to: Organ Morgan 's message, "Re: The Paganism/Asatru Thread" on 14:33:32 08/05/07 Sun

>>>>Strange the Christian Church didnt change the names
>>of
>>>>the days and left them based on 'pagan' Gods.
>>>
>>>the babylonians were the first ones to name the days
>>>after their gods. to them those were the stars which
>>>are visible to the naked eye in the geocentric world
>>>view. via greeks and romans this custom came to the
>>>germanic peoples in the 4th century. the christian
>>>church tried to repress this deeply rooted custom but
>>>in the german language succeeded at wednesday
>>>(mittwoch) and saturday (samstag) only.
>>
>>
>>'Mittwoch' is clearly 'midweek' but what is the
>>significance of 'Samstag?' Who is Sam, and why is it
>>his day?
>
>Samedi (Fench), Sambata (Romanian), are like Sabado
>(Spanish), Sobota (Polish),
>суббота
>(Russian) etc, meaning the Sabbath.

Thankyou, I didn't actually know that about 'samedi.' 'Saturday' appears to be derived from "Saturn", but why should it be, when the other six days are named after Norse Gods?

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