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ouer father only names 1 day of the week - others?
DIR By: toolebox
Date: January 20, 2024, 10:35 am
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the only day Of the week that our father named seems only to be
the sabbath-- something few adhere to ??
The days of the week were named by the Romans with the Latin
words for the Sun, the Moon, and the five known planets12. The
Babylonians named each of the days after one of the five
planetary bodies known to them (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
and Saturn) and after the Sun and the Moon, a custom later
adopted by the Romans2. The days of the week are named after the
sun, the moon, and a collection of Norse and Roman gods3. The
English language has inherited and changed these names to what
they are today
No more logic supports seven days than, say eight or five, yet
the seven-day week has resisted any and all attempt at change.
Unlike the year and the month, which correspond to the movements
of the earth around the sun and the moon around the earth, the
week has no astronomical analogue. Seven days is roughly the
same length of a phase of the moon (seven days, nine hours) but
any system of timekeeping quickly falls apart due to the extra
hours piling up.
Officially adopted by the Emperor Constantine in A.D. 321, the
seven-day week goes back thousands of years. Here’s some
history…
The seven-day week started with the first civilizations of the
Middle East. Mesopotamian astrologers designated one day for
each of the seven most prominent objects in the sky—the Sun, the
Moon, and the five major planets visible to the naked eye.
The Jews also adopted a seven-day cycle, based on the time it
took the Lord to create the universe as reported in Genesis. A
new wrinkle in their week was the Sabbath, a day set aside for
rest. This was the first time a culture had invented a holiday
that occurred on a regular basis, unrelated to natural
phenomena.
The Romans adopted different weeks for business reasons; they
thought of a week as the 8 days between market days.
West African societies preferred a four-day market cycle.
In Assyria, 6 days was the rule; in Egypt, 10; in China; 15.
The ancient Germans used a five-day cycle named for their
primary gods which is how our week ended up honoring Norse
deities like Tiw (Tuesday), Odin (Wednesday), Thor (Thursday),
and Frigga (Friday). Our word “week” may come from the Old Norse
word vikja, which means “to turn.” Sunday and Monday, or course,
honor the Sun and the Moon.
Atheistic revolutionaries tried, unsuccessfully, to get rid of
the seven-day week. In 1793 the leaders of the French Revolution
produced a new calendar divided into three ten-day “decades.” It
never caught on, and Napoleon abandoned it in 1805.
In 1929 the Soviet Union tried a five-day week, with one day of
rest.
Instead of the traditional day names, the days were given
colors: yellow, orange, red, purple, and green.
In order to keep mass production going, each Soviet citizen was
assigned a different day of rest, so that a husband might have a
yellow day off, while his wife took her leisure on green.
Due to mass confusion, the plan was revised in 1932 to a six-day
week, with numbers replacing the colors.
By 1940, the Russians were back on the familiar seven-day cycle!
Somebody was always trying to come up with something better! In
1936 the League of Nations solicited proposals for world
calendar reform and considered almost 200 different schemes,
many of which rearranged the week.
Edward Skille of Drummund, Wisconsin, suggested a year
consisting of 73 five-day weeks called “metos.” The days of the
week would be called Ano, Beno, Ceno, Deno, and Eno.
Why the seven-day week? It doesn’t divide evenly into 365- or
366-day years, so that holidays fall on different days of the
week from year to year. But human beings are not logical
creatures. Who can imagine saying, “What are you doing next
purple?” or “Yeah, it’s Eno!”
As one member of the British Parliament remarked in a 1944
debate on calendar reform, “It is bad enough to be born on April
1, but to have one’s birthday always on a Monday would be
perfectly intolerable.”
The biblical book of Genesis does indeed record God creating the
universe. It is interesting to note that, in the holy
scriptures, when the Hebrew word yom is used in connection with
reference to night time, it means a twenty-four hour day. When
yom is used in connection to a reference to day time, it also
means a twenty-four hour day. So, in Genesis chapters one and
two, when Moses, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, used the
word yom in reference to night AND day, it absolutely means a
twenty-four hour day. God created the universe in six literal
days, and He did no work on the seventh day, because His work of
creation from the beginning was "good" and "ended" . This sets a
pattern for everyone to work, but to set aside a day of rest.
Thank you.
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