Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
Aphrodite Anadyomene (Aphrodite rising from the sea) standing in her sea shell.
🏛️ Terracotta figurine, made in Amisos (Pontus), late 1st century BCE - early 1st century CE, found in Kertch (ancient Panticapaeum). Today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris
@AimeeMaroux@mythology@histodons@antiquidons
The misunderstanding may have been caused by a common habit in Antiquity: Names of
foreign Gods and Goddesses were customarily translated into names of own deities. Herodotos
f. i. constantly used names of Greek deities for Egypt ones (interpretatio graeca).
In the same way Latin writers used names of Roman Gods and Goddesses when they translated
Greek myths into Latin (interpretatio romana).
@AimeeMaroux@mythology@histodons@antiquidons
Much later the same procedure
was followed when names of Germanic gods were used to transfer the Latin names for some
days of the week - see picture
But the use of indigenous names for foreign deities had no influence on the everyday religion;
it is a widely discussed question, if these names even concern the same Gods and Goddesses.
@Irisfreundin@mythology@histodons@antiquidons I am not saying that the goddesses are the same at all? I am saying the name of the day is the same, they's all Friday.
In ancient Greek, Friday is named after the "Star of Aphrodite", i.e. Venus. The Romans, and today Italians and other Romance languages still call Friday the Day of [the planet] Venus". In the Germanic languages, the days of the week were named after associated Germanic gods. If Friday was named after Frigg or Freya is uncertain.
@mythology@antiquidons@histodons@Irisfreundin@AimeeMaroux
It's amazing how it has spread to rest of the world.
In Chinese they don't use planets for week days, probably did in the past.
Sunday is still "day of sun", the rest of the days are numerical: "first day" - Monday to "sixth day". But the word for "week" is Xingqi 星期 - "Stars Period"
In Portuguese, sábado (Saturday) is also an exception. Our system is one of those historical curiosities. 🤓 🇵🇹 An Early Medieval change of system dating back to the times of the Suebi Kingdom (which, in the 5th and 6th centuries, occupied all of Galicia and the north of Lusitania), due to the action of St. Martin of Dume.
Furthermore:
«The "feira" (fair), from Monday to Friday, means, in origin, a feast day and comes from the Latin “feria-”. Domingo, from the Latin «dominicu-», means «(day) of the Lord», therefore it is instead of a «first» fair! As for Saturday (which would be the “seventh”!) it comes from the Latin “sabbatu-”, coming, in turn, from the Hebrew “shabbath”, 'weekly rest'.»
In the Renaissance a Frisian Goddess Firdi ( Fera, Ferda Freda, Fridi) is mentioned. Her day is the 6th day of the week. It is not clear, of Friday or Saturday is meant. The source is called "Divisiekroniek" because it it structured in 32 divisies (sections).
From "Illustrated Lexicon of Germanic Deities" by Gunivortus Goos
I am 28 (29 in a few days), I have been fluent in English since age 13. I also briefly learned Spanish.
I NEVER wrapped my head around the funky names y'all have for days of the week. I still have to look it up every single time 💀
Why isn't two's-day the second day, why isn't third's-day the third day, what the fuck is a when's day? Spanish can also go fuck itself, I just don't have a funni joak for it.
Just count your days you weirdosssssss ooommmmggg overdramatic armwaves around
Several years ago I used to produced calenders in German and English. The problem was: In Germany Monday is the first day of the week. In the English speaking world that is Sunday.
In the Netherlands both countings are used.
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