Sunday doesn’t have anything to do with Jesus. It’s just the Christian Sabbath. AKAIK the Soviets never had any problem with a calender that counted the years from “the birth of Christ” (unlike the French). For what’s it worh my great aunt visisted the USSR several times in the 70s and early 80s and she said that everything basically shut down on Sundays.
Ancient Romans didn’t have a fixed day of the week off.
Instead, the Roman year was littered with all sorts of holidays (holy days), each with their own theme and dedicated to their own god and/or target group.
On average there were four to eight holidays per month. If you got all of these off, that would have resembled a modern work week.
Smirnoff count: 19.
I am now more educated.
But, Sunday is a holiday because it is the day after the Sabbath, the day on which Jesus rose from the dead. The Sabbath, according to the Hebrew bible, is the seventh day of creation, the day on which God rested. Hence our weekend.
I realize the day names are not Christian based - Sunday is literally named after the Sun and Monday after the moon and the following days after the some Norse gods and or planets (Saturn for Saturday) but the basis for the days which become our weekend are based on the Bible. Am I wrong here?
Saturday is the Sabbath.
Right, that’s what I said.
Sorry to continue a hijack…
They did indeed have a leap year, which was considered a very dangerous time. I wish I still had them, but my Egyptology professor gave us a few extant spells having to do with the prevention of plagues and curses at this auspicious time. IIRC, Sekhmet was most often appealed to for the prevention of these, in a sort of homeopathic (for lack of a better term) solution - she was the goddess of such phenomena.
Upon reading without crossed eyes, yeah, you did. :smack: