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The following Days of the Week are after Greeco-Roman, Norse, and Germanic Gods:

  • Sunday – Day of the Sun.

  • Monday – Day of the Moon.

  • Tuesday - Tyr or Tiw was the Norse God of War. Also known as Martius Roman God of War.

  • Wednesday - Mercury the messenger God. Also known as the Norse God Odin, and Woden or Wotan to the Germanic Tribes.

  • Thursday - Thor was the Norse God of Thunder. And Jupiter also chief of the Gods.

  • Friday - Fria Norse God (in this case a goddess). She was believed to be the wife of Odin and was the goddess of marriage and the hearth. The Roman's had named this day for Venus their goddess of beauty.

  • Saturday - Saturn Roman God of Time and the Harvest.

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