AHC/WI: Christianize the Names of the Days of the Week

As the tin says, what if/the challenge is to get the days of the week to have Christian names rather than those of pagan deities.

For English, the obvious one is to change Sunday to Sonday/Sonsday for God the Son instead of the Sun God. I guess you could have Fathersday for God the Father, maybe Mothersday or Marysday for the Virgin Mary?
 

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Work with Genesis maybe?

They look a bit silly.

Monday - Lightday

Tuesday - Waterday or Landsland

Wednesday - Edenday or Plantsday

Thursday - Heavensday or Sunday or Moonday

Friday - Birdsday or Fishday

Saturday - Mansday or Adamsday

Sunday - Restday
 
Days of the week are named after the celestial bodies. You'd need to rename them, for some reason. Perhaps they'd get named after angels- so you get Gabriel's day, etc. It actually seems that the Seven Archangels correspond to the seven days, so if for some reason the old weekday names are considered too heathen, you have a ready-made substitute.
 
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Days of the week are named after the celestial bodies. You'd need to rename them, for some reason. Perhaps they'd get named after angels- so you get Gabriel's day, etc. It actually seems that the Seven Archangels correspond to the seven days, so if for some reason the old weekday names are considered too heathen, you have a ready-made substitute.

I think the English is what's at work here. The Western names for days (ex: Giovedi) doesn't come over to the English "Thor's Day" even though they're analogous.

You could get away, then, perhaps with the English deciding to do away with the pagan names while the rest keep it. Perhaps during the Plantagenet era. Not sure if that counts for the AHC.
 

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Saturday and Sunday in Romance Languages come from religion. For Saturday, the Spanish sábado and French samedi come from the Latin Sabbatum ("Sabbath"). For Sunday, Spanish domingo and French dimanche come from Latin dies Dominica ("Day of the Lord").

You could get away, then, perhaps with the English deciding to do away with the pagan names while the rest keep it. Perhaps during the Plantagenet era. Not sure if that counts for the AHC.
It could also happen during the formation of the Anglican Church.

Though Anglicans only recognize four archangels: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Uriel.

Maybe have four archangels for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, then the "King's Day" is Friday, the "Sabbath" is Saturday, and the "Lord's Day" is Sunday.

Or if Henry VIII goes full Henry VIII, Friday could just be Henry's Day.
 
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Saturday and Sunday in Romance Languages come from religion. For Saturday, the Spanish sábado and French samedi come from the Latin Sabbatum ("Sabbath"). For Sunday, Spanish domingo and French dimanche come from Latin dies Dominica ("Day of the Lord").
In Italian as well - Sabato and Domenica.
 
You could go the Portuguese route and just call Monday through Friday "second fair", "third fair", etc. Saturday could then be "Sabbath (day)" and then Sunday could be "Lord's Day" or even "Dominick".
 
You could go the Portuguese route and just call Monday through Friday "second fair", "third fair", etc. Saturday could then be "Sabbath (day)" and then Sunday could be "Lord's Day" or even "Dominick".

Dominus
Second Fair
Third Fair
Fourth Fair
Fifth Fair
Sixth Fair
Sabat
 
I think the English is what's at work here. The Western names for days (ex: Giovedi) doesn't come over to the English "Thor's Day" even though they're analogous.
Actually, they were 'translations'. French Lundi (Moon day), Mardi (Mars day=Tyr's day), Mercredi (Mercury's day = Woden's day), Jeudi (Jove's day=Thor's day), Vendredi (Venus' day = Frig's day).

The equivalences look weird to us, because we think of Woden/Wotan/Odhinn as being the chief god and equivalent to Jupiter/Jove/Zeus, but that's not the equivalence the Romans made. Firstly, Odin as chief god is a result of poets writing for Kings - and since Odin was god of both poets and kings, his rôle got massively magnified.
 
Why would all of them need to have a day of the week named after them? It's not like every Roman/Greek god had a day named after them.

The Evangelists and Paul gives us five, Mary (or Peter) for the sixth, and then the Lord's day. Blam!
 
Well I think thanks to the movie Se7en we are aware there are seven deadly sins but there are also Seven Heavenly Virtues which could make the days of the week.
Monday - Chastity : When we start the week reborn from church on the sabath
Tuesday- Temperance :
Wednesday- Charity :
Thursday- Diligence :
Friday- Patience :
Saturday -Kindness :
Sunday - Humility : when we humble ourselves before the Lord.
 
Work with Genesis maybe?

They look a bit silly.

Monday - Lightday

Tuesday - Waterday or Landsland

Wednesday - Edenday or Plantsday

Thursday - Heavensday or Sunday or Moonday

Friday - Birdsday or Fishday

Saturday - Mansday or Adamsday

Sunday - Restday

The Evangelists and Paul gives us five, Mary (or Peter) for the sixth, and then the Lord's day. Blam!

I made up a list of two versions of the days of the week based off of these and using sound corruptions like what exist in our current days of the week (Thursday - Thor's Day, etc.):

(starting with Monday)

Jesus - Jesuday (prounounced: Jess-Uu-Day)
Matthew - Matuday (prounounced: Mat-Uu-Day)
Mark - Marday (prounounced: Mar-Day)
Luke - Luday (prounounced: Luu-Day)
John - Joday (prounounced: Joe-Day)
Mary - Maraday (prounounced: Mar-Ah-Day)
God - Lorday (prounounced: Lore-Day)

Light - Liday (prounounced: Lye-Day)
Land - Landay (prounounced: Lan-Day)
Eden - Edenday (prounounced: Edd-En-Day)
Heaven - Hevenday (prounounced: Hev-En-Day)
Fish - Fisday (prounounced: Fiz-Day)
Adam - Adaday (prounounced: Ad-Ah-Day)
Rest - Resday (prounounced: Rez-Day)
 
Dominus
Second Fair
Third Fair
Fourth Fair
Fifth Fair
Sixth Fair
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