How did the days of the week get their names?
Gods in the Calendar
How did the days of the week get their names?
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday... you've said these words a thousand times. But have you ever wondered where they came from? The names hiding in our calendar are much older and stranger than you might think — borrowed from gods, planets, and ancient people who looked up at the sky and decided to name time itself.
Our story starts with the Romans, about two thousand years ago. They looked at the seven objects moving across their sky — the Sun, the Moon, and five visible planets — and thought, "These should be gods. And these gods should get days." Sunday belonged to the Sun. Monday to the Moon. They built a weekly calendar around the wanderers in the heavens.
