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However, in 563, this Episcopal, presiding over a council of the Catholic Church in that Portuguese city, obtained the decision to permanently change the ordinances to five of the seven days of the week, arguing that they paid homage to pagan deities. However, Monday in English - Monday, comes from the archaic m ȱ nandæg - day of the moon, a translation of dies Lunae. According to Hall (1985), the moon in Sumerian mythology was the deity Inanna and symbolized the personification of wisdom. The main sanctuary of Nanna in Ur was called E-gish-shir-gal, that is, the house of great light. It was in Ur that, according to this author, the role of the priestess (En) developed. It was an extremely powerful role played by Princess Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Acadia, that is, she was responsible for the cult of Nanna - the moon goddess. Innana was equivalent to the Ishtar of the Acadians, Astarte of the Philistines, Isis of the Egyptians, and Astarte of the Phoenicians . 16 iii. Tuesday The planet Mars is known as the red planet, and in fact it is because of its soil being covered by regolith - a dust rich in iron oxide - and the oxidation of magnetite. This pigmentary characteristic perceptible to the observers' scrutiny evoked the metaphor of blood and war, which was attributed to the divinity of combat and heroism in Norse mythology and Germanic polytheism. The day attributed to this deity is noted in the chrononym Tuesday in English derived from Old English tiwesdaeg and means day of Tyr, or day of Mars, the Roman god of war - dies Martis in Latin. iv. Wednesday In the onomasiological system of the planetary week, this fourth day is a tribute to the god of Norse 16 Dicionário das Mitologias Européias e Orientais . (Dictionary of European and Eastern Mythologies) [S.l.]: Cultrix. 1973. p. 126-127; 141. © 2021 Global Journals Volume XXI Issue IV Version I 30 ( G ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2021 Chrononyms and the Time Identity mythology called Woden, or Odin, whose name meant in archaic Norwegian fury and excitement. It is a deity equivalent to Mercury from the Greco-Roman pantheon and Lupus from Celtic. Hence the chronological Wednesday in English that derives from wodnesdaeg, or the same as dies Merculii in Latin, that is, the day of Mercury, or Onsdag in Swedish - Odin's day. However, the name for that fourth day is referred to as Mittwoch - middle of the week, in German, and keskiviikko (keski - middle, viikko - week) in Finnish. v. Thursday The planet Jupiter was the representative planet of Thor, the god of thunder, was used to designate the fifth day of the week. This homage is verified in the name dies jovis - day of jupiter, and in English Thursday - day of Thor. vi. Friday In ancient polytheism, the name of the goddess of love and beauty Frigga can vary in Freya, Freija, Frejya, Freyia, Fröja, Frøya, Frøjya, Freia, Freja, Frua and Freiya and means lady. She was Odin's wife. The sixth day of the week was named as Fr īġ edæ ġ or Frigga day, as perceptible in English Friday, and in Latin dies veneris - Venus day. vii. Saturday The lexical primitive that gave rise to the word Saturday is shabbat ( תבש ), from Hebrew, a noun for the verb shavat ( תַבָׁש ) - to rest, to cease work - being sabbaton in Greek ( Σάββατο v) and sabatum in Latin, it kept a distinct parallel name to the planetary week still maintaining its etymological meaning of rest in many modern languages as shown below: Board 2: Saturday in some modern languages Language Term Language Term Portuguese Sábado English Sabbath/Saturday Spanish Sábado Romenian Sâmb ă t ă Italian Sabato Swedish Lördag – bath Day French Samedi Danish Lørdag – bath Day German Samstag Finnish Lauantai – bath Day When looking at history, politics as well as the social and civil aspects involved with this chrononym, it is possible glimpse an ideological-religious dispute that has been periodically fought, as shown in the excerpts from the Commentary on Psalms of Eusebius and also in Hefele (1875) respectively: The Logos has transferred by the New Alliance the celebration of the Sabbath to the rising of the light. He has given us a type of the true rest in the saving day of the Lord, the first day of light […] In this day of light, first day and true day of the sun, when we gather after the interval of six days, we celebrate the holy and spiritual Sabbaths […]. All things, whatsoever, that were prescribed for the Sabbath, we have transferred them to the Lord’s day, as being more authoritative and more highly regarded and first in rank, and more honorable than the Jewish Sabbath […] Verily, all the