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The Seven-Day Week
Appendix, The Boxer Dread: 331 B.C. to Present
© 2017 James LaFond
APR/6/17
With Alexander’s conquest of Babylon, the Greek world adopted the seven-day week, based on the visible planets and named for associated deities.
Babylonian: Shamash, Sin, Nergal, Nabu, Marduk, Ishtar, Ninurta
Greek: Helios, Kallisto, Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, Kronos
Roman: Sol, Luna, Mars, Mercurius, Jupiter, Venus, Saturnus
Nordic: Sun, Moon, Tiw, Wodin, Thor, Freya, Saturn
Modern: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
 
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Shep     Apr 8, 2017

Dept. of nit-picking: how did the Nordics appropriate the Roman god Saturn? He doesn't seem to fit in the Nordic pantheon. Not much contact between Scandinavia and Roman Empire, was there?
James     Apr 8, 2017

That smells tome too, but both of my sources, books on calendars and time had this listed. I will look into it, but perhaps we are counting an adopted Romano-English word as "Nordic."
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