SPIRIT Newsletter
- March, 2010
Today is September 9, 2010
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Origin of Days |
Origin of Months |
Origin of Holidays
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| Origin of Day Names |
| English |
Saxon |
| Sunday | Sun |
| Monday | Moon |
| Tuesday | Tiw (the Anglo-Saxon God of war, the equivalent of the Norse Tyr or the Roman Mars) |
| Wednesday | Woden (the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of the Norse Odin or the Roman Mercury) |
| Thursday | Thor (the Norse God of thunder, the equivalent of Roman Jupiter) |
| Friday | Frigg (the Norse God of love and fertility, the equivalent of the Roman God Venus) |
| Saturday | Saterne (Saturn, the Roman God of agriculture) |
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