Saturnday

Sitday was great.  I sat all day.  Not really.

I spent a lot of time with a dear friend and we talked and chatted.  We saw a great movie, that meant a lot to us before we ever met, back in high school.  And we had two great meals.

The name Saturday does still have some cultural importance I think because people know Saturn as a planet.  It's the planet with the rings...  people think.  But lots of planets have rings.  That's just the planet people think of in that way.



So, looking back because that's half of what you do in January.... 


Sunday is named for the sun and Monday is named for the moon and Saturday is named for that other planet.  The rest are nearly incomprehensible to us but I figure most people know that much about the names, and would "get" Sunday, Monday and Saturday's connections if queried, whether or not they know that all the days were associated with particular heavenly bodies or whether or not they know Saturn is also the name of the deity.

Since there are four other days named after deities, it could kind of go either way:  the days were named for deities or the days were named for visible things in the sky.  Sunday remains unique because its namesake is not visible in the nighttime sky.  And our English term day, which can mean daylight hours, or can mean a 24 hour period, is probably not the best way to think about these 24 hour periods because during the daylight hours of six of them, you can't even see the thing the day is named after.

Evening and morning were the first day... and so on.