--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 2/20/07 4:59:56 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > > sparaig@ writes: > > > > > > hence the reason why all Romance languages (as far as > > > I know) call Saturday "Sabbath Day." > > > > > > > > > > > > I always thought it was Saturday after Saturn and Sunday after > the Sun and > > > Monday after the moon. > > > > > > English is a Germanic language. And the English names seem to > follow (at least partly) the > > convention used by China and Japan, rather than Rome: > > > > Sun Day, Moon Day, Fire Day, Water Day, Wood Day, Gold Day, > > Earth Day. > > English follows German pretty closely; the days > are all named for the sun/moon and the planetary > gods in English, but German has mundane names for > Wednesday and Saturday: > > Sontag/Sunday (sun's day), Montag/Monday (moon's day), > Dienstag/Tuesday (Ziu/Mars' day), Mittwoch/Wednesday > (midweek/Mercury/Wodan's day), Donnerstag/Thursday > (Donner/Jupiter/Thor's day), Freitag/Friday (Freia/Venus' day), > Sonnabend/Saturday (Sunday eve/Saturn's day) >
Gold day is "payday" in Japan and much of Asia and apparently has been for many centuries. Saturn was god of crops and seeds. The Chinese/Japanese symbol for soil/ saturday shows a stalk of some kind growing from the ground. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=soil+kanji
