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minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·3 months agoBonus panel: Moon enters with shit-eating grin.
minus-squarecriticon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-23 months agoI’m Spanish all the days of the week are named after the planets, the moon and the Sun Lunae Dies’ en honor a la diosa Luna, es lunes. ‘Marti Dies’, en honor al dios de la guerra, Marte, y es martes. ‘Mercurii Dies’, en honor al dios del comercio, es miércoles ‘Jovis Dies’, en honor a Júpiter, dios de dioses, es jueves. ‘Veneris Dies’, en honor a Venus, diosa del amor, es viernes. ‘Saturni Dies’, en honor a Saturno, dios de la agricultura, es sábado ‘Solis Dies’, en honor al dios Sol, es domingo
minus-squarefunkless_ecklinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 months agoI mean in English it’s Sun Moon Tyr (Mars) Odin (Mercury) Thor (Jupiter) Freya (No roman counterpart, arguably occupies the same function as Venus) Saturn
minus-squarecriticon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoI knew English names were the Nordic gods but I didn’t now they equated to the Roman gods/planets. TIL
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agopeople starting the week with sunday will never cease to inflict psychic damage
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoSaturn is also how we get Saturday in English. Wednesday comes from Woden’s Day, an alternative spelling of Odin’s Day. Which leads us to Thor’s Day: Thursday. I don’t know where we get from Mars to Tuesday and Venus to Friday though.
Bonus panel: Moon enters with shit-eating grin.
I’m Spanish all the days of the week are named after the planets, the moon and the Sun
Lunae Dies’ en honor a la diosa Luna, es lunes.
‘Marti Dies’, en honor al dios de la guerra, Marte, y es martes.
‘Mercurii Dies’, en honor al dios del comercio, es miércoles
‘Jovis Dies’, en honor a Júpiter, dios de dioses, es jueves.
‘Veneris Dies’, en honor a Venus, diosa del amor, es viernes.
‘Saturni Dies’, en honor a Saturno, dios de la agricultura, es sábado
‘Solis Dies’, en honor al dios Sol, es domingo
I mean in English it’s
Sun
Moon
Tyr (Mars)
Odin (Mercury)
Thor (Jupiter)
Freya (No roman counterpart, arguably occupies the same function as Venus)
Saturn
I knew English names were the Nordic gods but I didn’t now they equated to the Roman gods/planets. TIL
people starting the week with sunday will never cease to inflict psychic damage
Saturn is also how we get Saturday in English.
Wednesday comes from Woden’s Day, an alternative spelling of Odin’s Day.
Which leads us to Thor’s Day: Thursday.
I don’t know where we get from Mars to Tuesday and Venus to Friday though.