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The English name Friday comes from the Old English frīġedæġ, meaning the "day of Frig", a result of an old convention associating the Nordic goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus after whom the planet was named; the same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German, and vrijdag in Dutch.
The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum. [citation needed] Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh.
The English weekday name Friday (ultimately meaning 'Frigg's Day') bears her name. After Christianization , the mention of Frigg continued to occur in Scandinavian folklore . During modern times, Frigg has appeared in popular culture, has been the subject of art and receives veneration in Germanic Neopaganism .
A full calendar system has a different calendar date for every day. [20] [21] Thus the week cycle is by itself not a full calendar system; [22] neither is a system to name the days within a year without a system for identifying the years. The simplest calendar system just counts time periods from a reference date. [23]
Frigg gave protection to homes and families, maintained social order, and could weave fate as she did the clouds. She also possessed the art of prophecy, and could bestow or remove fertility.
An eight-day week was used in Ancient Rome and possibly in the pre-Christian Celtic calendar. Traces of a nine-day week are found in Baltic languages and in Welsh. The ancient Chinese calendar had a ten-day week, as did the ancient Egyptian calendar (and, incidentally, the French Republican Calendar, dividing its 30-day months into thirds).
Medieval calendar with the so-called Sceptre of Gediminas, 14th century A Lithuanian language calendar by Laurynas Ivinskis. Lithuanian researcher Libertas Klimka [] proposed that there was a simple astronomical observatory on the Birutė Hill in Palanga before the Christianization of Lithuania.
Not only are most post offices closed on this day of the week, meaning your mail would have to wait until Monday to go out anyway, but you also won’t be able to use any in-person postal services ...