Some do, but most don’t. They don’t wear funny hats anymore or pepper their speech with “thees” and “thous”. Some, including my dad, have even served in the military.
Assuming that fundamentalist is mean tot include all varieties of Evangelicals & Pentecostals, I’d say they generally don’t know that Thursday is named after Thor and so forth. In particular, many Pentecostal ministers are poorly educated.
Why didn’t they call it Thorsday? That would be cool.
They do in Ireland (phonetically).
I meant they use terms like ‘First Day’ with each other. As an example, Sunday School is often called First Day School. They’ve mostly stopped using plain language otherwise, because it’s not plain if it’s different from the common usage.
During WWII, the majority of male Quakers eligible for military service enlisted, attempted to enlist, or did not request exemption for the draft based on CO status. Many did use CO status to request assignment as medics or chaplains though.
All this is off target though. It is very difficult to find a Quaker who could be described as a fundamentalist.
I’m not in charge of that. If I were, it’d all be about..
Nah. I don’t have any Athena-jokes in me today. Maybe tomorrow.
Yes, but the (supposed) instructions from God don’t actually say that the Sabbath must be arrived at by an unbroken count from an original Creative week, just that one day in seven be sanctified in numerological imitation. As I tried to explain once before,
Once upon a time, this was tried in German, but only of them took. They changed Wednesday, which was probably something like Wodenstag, to Mittwoch (midweek) but none of the others changes survived. I’m surprised that even the one did.
According to RAE, “Sabbath” means “rest”. Hey, any Hebrew-speakers around? C’mon, it isn’t even the Sabbath, I know some of you are here!
And Sunday is the Day of the Lord (which isn’t exactly the same as “Lord’s Day”) because it’s the day He resurrected, by our counting.
All twelve months inherit their names from Latin, including the two named after divinized men that you left out.
I realized as I was reading this thread that after over twenty years with the language, those oddball Portuguese days are as infused with meaning for me as our English days. Segunda feels exactly like what it is: laundry day, and back to work. Quinta feels exactly like Thursday.
I’m not sure how many other parts of the Portuguese language have so fully bound themselves to their concepts in my mind as the days of the week. Numbers certainly don’t share the same level of familiarity in my mind.
I’ve heard at least two possible reasons for Mercury being Germanicized as Odin for Wednesday: that they were both gods of commerce at one time, or that they were both psychopomps, guides of the dead to the afterlife. I’ve heard others as well, but can only remember those two offhand.
It goes back at least to Julius Caesar, who wrote that the Gauls’ principal god (their equivalent of Wotan) was Mercury.
Can you explain this statement? The Gauls were no closer to the Germanic tribes than the Romans. Further, Gaulish Lugos (presumably who Caesar meant, though no Gaulish name is given) isn’t particularly like Wotan, as least based on what we know, as least no more like Wotan than either is to Jupiter.
The “Storm God” aspect seems the simplest explanation for the Germanic days. For the Celtic days, Brythonic Celts borrowed the Roman calendar: Welsh Dydd Mercher (day + Mercury), Breton Dimerc’her. We don’t know the Gaulish names for the weekdays, if any, and the Irish names are post-Christian and on a different system: Irish Dé Céadaoin (day +first-fast).
It comes pretty close to worship for most teenage boys!
Oh,and some of the months too.
Psst. Post 14.
Just to nitpick some more since what the hell, the origins of the names of the months:
January = Janus, Roman god of doorways.
February = Februa, a purification ritual.
March = Mars, Roman god of war.
April = Apire, a verb meaning to open, an allusion to spring.
May = Maia, a Greek maternity and fertility goddess.
June = Juno, Roman goddess.
July = Julius, aka Julius Caesar.
August = Augustus, emperor of Rome.
September = Septem, seventh.
October = Octo, eighth.
November = Novem, ninth.
December = Decem, tenth.
So, we have 2 named after Roman gods, 1 named after a Roman goddess, 1 named after a Greek goddess, 1 named after the season it happens in (more or less), one named after a ritual that happens in that month, 2 named after powerful Romans, and 4 named after numbers that do not coincide with their place in the year (although they are in order).
The months have the right number if you start the year where the ancient Romans did, in March (March - Wikipedia)
I thought you were going to ask why the 7th day of the week is the 1st day of the week? Then again, in W. Europe, isn’t Mon the 1st day? So, who’s to say when the Sabbath is?
Don’t take this the wrong way but I love you for saying this. Nothin’ funny, though…