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The days of the week are named after the stars. There are many, many translations of this in different languages, but here, for my purposes, I will use the rough Latin translation:

Sunday: Dies Solis = The Day of the Sun

Monday: Dies Lunae = The Day of the Moon -- me, being born on a Moonday, or a Moodday, this is a very special day for me.

Tuesday: Dies Martis = The Day of Mars

Wednesday: Dies Mercurii = The Day of Mercury

Thursday: Dies Iovis = The Day of Jupiter -- me, being a Sagittarius and my ruling planet being Jupiter, this is a very special day for me.

Friday: Dies Veneris = The Day of Venus

Saturday: Dies Saturni = The Day of Venus

Now, that was fun!

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"Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is the answer, it is the ONLY answer." -- Tim Larkin

"If someone comes to kill you -- arise quickly and kill him." -- The Talmud

"Time does not exist. To love, to want, infinitely, that is all and all is that"
SOLI DEO
Le 27 Jun 1566
Michel de Notre Dam

Do you also know why the days are named in that particular order? They are not in the same order in which the planets are found. Incidentally the method was given first by an Indian sage/mathematician called Parashar.

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Janani Janmabhoomishcha Swargadapi Gareeyasi - Being near to your mother in your motherland is better than being in paradise

Ekavarnam yatha dugdham binnavarnasu dhenushu | tataiva dharmavaichitryam tatvam ekam param smritam ||
Just as milk is of only one colour though obtained from cows of different colours so also the peculiarities of different religious thoughts lead to the same one ultimate truth - Mahabharatha

No, I do not know why. Why?

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"Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is the answer, it is the ONLY answer." -- Tim Larkin

"If someone comes to kill you -- arise quickly and kill him." -- The Talmud

"Time does not exist. To love, to want, infinitely, that is all and all is that"
SOLI DEO
Le 27 Jun 1566
Michel de Notre Dam

Parashar (circa 1600 BCE) had a fairly good idea about the location of the planets except for one mistake. He placed Venus nearest to the sun instead of Mercury. He proceeded to divide a day into 24 equal parts, each one called a Hora. Thereafter he proceeded to arrange the planets in a circular formation having Sun and Saturn at the two ends with Jupiter and mars on one side and Venus, mercury and Moon on the other. I have gven a rough diagram below:


---<----Mars---<------Jupiter----<-----
Sun ..................................... Saturn
----->Venus--->Mercury ----->Moon

Starting from Sun, a Hora is allotted to each planet continuously. So on day One, the First Hora belongs to the Sun, the second one to Venus, third to mercury and so on. This is Sunday. This way the first, eighth, fifteenth and 22nd hora would belong to the sun. 23rd and 24th would belong to venus and mercury at which point Day One will end. Therefore the first Hora of Day Two would then belong to the Moon. That will be Monday or the day of the Moon. On this day the the first, eighth, fifteenth and 22nd hora would belong to the moon and the 23rd and 24th would belong to Saturn and Jupiter. Day 3 will then begin with Mars which is Tuesday and so on.

PS: I use the terms Day and Planets (Graha) in the sense in which they are understood in Indian astronomy. Accordingly a day is always the time from sunrise to sunrise and not midnight to midnight as is the modern practice. Again a Graha (planet) is a heavenly body whose movements/change in position vis-a-vis the earth is discernible. It may be a planet or a star or a satellite according to modern science.

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Janani Janmabhoomishcha Swargadapi Gareeyasi - Being near to your mother in your motherland is better than being in paradise

Ekavarnam yatha dugdham binnavarnasu dhenushu | tataiva dharmavaichitryam tatvam ekam param smritam ||
Just as milk is of only one colour though obtained from cows of different colours so also the peculiarities of different religious thoughts lead to the same one ultimate truth - Mahabharatha

Saturday = VENUS???

It is Saturday = Saturn

now that makes sense if you ask me......

Yes, Saturday belongs to Saturn. Who said it is venus?

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Janani Janmabhoomishcha Swargadapi Gareeyasi - Being near to your mother in your motherland is better than being in paradise

Ekavarnam yatha dugdham binnavarnasu dhenushu | tataiva dharmavaichitryam tatvam ekam param smritam ||
Just as milk is of only one colour though obtained from cows of different colours so also the peculiarities of different religious thoughts lead to the same one ultimate truth - Mahabharatha

:lol: just a mistake by thread starter, read the first post :twisted:

:lol: sorry my english......