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lionkingcmslWhile I am a believer I think some of the early Christians were a bit over zealous as they try to convert everyone. They tried to remove all other references to the other "pagan" religions, however they let some terms stay that affect our daily lives, at least in English.
I am talking about the days of the week, which are mostly named for "pagan" gods and goddesses.
Let's list them, shall we.
Sunday: The most important day in most Christian religions, as it is the Sabbath. This one is self explanatory; the day of the sun.
Monday: Again self explanatory; the moon's day.
Tuesday: This one is obscure; Tiu's day. Tiu is the Germanic god of war and sky and is identified with the Norse god Tyr.
Wednesday: The day that is the hardest to remember how to spell and another obscure one: Woden's day. Woden is the chief Teutonic god and is the same as the Norse god Odin.
Thursday: Actually pretty easy; The Norse god Thor's day.
Friday: A little harder, but not quite obscure; Freya's day. Freya (Freyja) is the Norse goddess of love and beauty.
Saturday: Important to the Seventh Day Adventist's and some others, as it is their Sabbath; Saturn's day. Not the planet, but the Roman god Saturn, for whom the planet was named. Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture and is the same as the Greek god Cronus.
They also let the names of the planets, they knew of, stand, all, but Earth, are named for gods and goddesses, mostly Roman.
So did they try and give up, realizing it was hopeless, or did they figure they would let the "pagan" religions have a bit of remembrance of their past. Though most people today do not know the actual meanings and origins of the days of the week.
Also, do not forget that January is a reference to Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways, and March refers to Mars, the Roman god of war. I will not go into the other months other than to say that July is named for Julius Caesar and August is named for Augustus Caesar; while September, October, November and December are references to the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months of the Roman calendar: the places they held before July and August were inserted.
BTW, Maggie is doing much better. :=3
I am talking about the days of the week, which are mostly named for "pagan" gods and goddesses.
Let's list them, shall we.
Sunday: The most important day in most Christian religions, as it is the Sabbath. This one is self explanatory; the day of the sun.
Monday: Again self explanatory; the moon's day.
Tuesday: This one is obscure; Tiu's day. Tiu is the Germanic god of war and sky and is identified with the Norse god Tyr.
Wednesday: The day that is the hardest to remember how to spell and another obscure one: Woden's day. Woden is the chief Teutonic god and is the same as the Norse god Odin.
Thursday: Actually pretty easy; The Norse god Thor's day.
Friday: A little harder, but not quite obscure; Freya's day. Freya (Freyja) is the Norse goddess of love and beauty.
Saturday: Important to the Seventh Day Adventist's and some others, as it is their Sabbath; Saturn's day. Not the planet, but the Roman god Saturn, for whom the planet was named. Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture and is the same as the Greek god Cronus.
They also let the names of the planets, they knew of, stand, all, but Earth, are named for gods and goddesses, mostly Roman.
So did they try and give up, realizing it was hopeless, or did they figure they would let the "pagan" religions have a bit of remembrance of their past. Though most people today do not know the actual meanings and origins of the days of the week.
Also, do not forget that January is a reference to Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways, and March refers to Mars, the Roman god of war. I will not go into the other months other than to say that July is named for Julius Caesar and August is named for Augustus Caesar; while September, October, November and December are references to the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months of the Roman calendar: the places they held before July and August were inserted.
BTW, Maggie is doing much better. :=3
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Date: 2015-10-20 03:32 pm (UTC)Christmas is mostly about the shortest day of the year. (Jesus being born in middle of summer.)
There's a lot of horrid stuff that was done way back when Roman Empire found a lot of pagans and druids that worshipped this sort of stuff and sent in their armies around when they conquered to destroy them.
The UK last place being Wales that fought back but it ended as a massacre. Of course that for those to get under them and for Catholics to begin as the main religion. Italy was a bit pissed off when the King of England at the time wanted to make his own religion which was part of Christianity.
At least Italy doesn't throw any other religion but catholics into the arena now to be mauled by lions and tigers.
Every new religion has done it's best to force its views onto others to get the bigger market share amongst the populace. That hasn't changed today.
You have one religion trying to wipe out another at any cost, though it is mostly hidden behind political means now but the same mob mentality is still there with radicals. And yes, I'm even counting Christianity radicals into that, there are some terrorists within that religion as well.
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Date: 2015-10-23 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-23 02:22 am (UTC)