“星期的由来”英文版The Naming of the Days

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The Naming of the Days

Unlike the Britons, who were Christian, the Anglo-Saxons worshipped many gods, including Tiw and Woden, gods of war, Thor, god of thunder, and the goddess Frig. These gave us the names of four days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

The Greeks named the days week after the sun, the moon and the five known planets, which were in turn named after the gods Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Cronus. The Greeks called the days of the week the Theon hemerai \"days of the Gods\". The Romans substituted their equivalent gods for the Greek gods, Mars, Mercury, Jove (Jupiter), Venus, and Saturn. (The two pantheons are very similar.) The Germanic peoples generally substituted roughly similar gods for the Roman gods, Tiu (Twia), Woden, Thor, Freya (Fria), but did not substitute Saturn.