LMFAO - Wednesday = Wodens day. Thursday = Thor's day.
December 25th marks the Winter solstice and was sacred to Dues Sol Invictus, the Sun god. He was named supreme Roman god by the emperor Elagabulus. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) around 220CE Christians also stole the halo from Sol.
Days of the week in order in order:
Sunday (the first day of the week) = The Sun's day
Monday= The Moon's day
Tuesday= Tiw's day (from 'Tiew'=Mars)
Wednesday= Wodan's day.
Thursday= Thor's day
Friday =Frige's day (Venus)
Saturday= Saturn's day (the god Saturn)
EVERY day of the week was originally associated with some god or goddess,at least in our calendar,which is only one of many which have been invented, and by no means the most accurate.
The emperor Augustus Caesar had a whole month named after him. Not sure about the other months.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus
December 25th marks the Winter solstice and was sacred to Dues Sol Invictus, the Sun god. He was named supreme Roman god by the emperor Elagabulus. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) around 220CE Christians also stole the halo from Sol.
Days of the week in order in order:
Sunday (the first day of the week) = The Sun's day
Monday= The Moon's day
Tuesday= Tiw's day (from 'Tiew'=Mars)
Wednesday= Wodan's day.
Thursday= Thor's day
Friday =Frige's day (Venus)
Saturday= Saturn's day (the god Saturn)
EVERY day of the week was originally associated with some god or goddess,at least in our calendar,which is only one of many which have been invented, and by no means the most accurate.
The emperor Augustus Caesar had a whole month named after him. Not sure about the other months.
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Quote:Since the reign of Septimius Severus, sun worship had increased throughout the Empire.[31] Elagabalus saw this as an opportunity to install El-Gabal as the chief deity of the Roman Pantheon. The god was renamed Deus Sol Invictus, meaning God the Undefeated Sun, and placed over Jupiter.[32] As a sign of the union with the Roman religion, Elagabalus gave either Astarte, Minerva, Urania, or some combination of the three, to El-Gabal as a wife.[33]
He provoked further outrage when he himself married the Vestal Virgin Aquilia Severa, claiming the marriage would produce "god-like children".[34] This was a flagrant breach of Roman law and tradition, which held that any Vestal found to have engaged in sexual intercourse would be buried alive.[35]
A lavish temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill to house El-Gabal, who was represented by a black conical meteorite from Emesa.[18] Herodian wrote "this stone is worshipped as though it were sent from heaven; on it there are some small projecting pieces and markings that are pointed out, which the people would like to believe are a rough picture of the sun, because this is how they see them".[5] In order to become the high priest of his new religion, Elagabalus had himself circumcised.[32] He forced senators to watch while he danced around the altar of Deus Sol Invictus to the sound of drums and cymbals,[18] and each summer solstice he held a festival dedicated to the god, which became popular with the masses because of the free food widely distributed there.[33] During this festival, Elagabalus placed the Emesa stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus