The Origins of the Seven Day Week

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[@tsg2009]

it was good but the music always drives me away

[@redpill6201]

Thanks for the video. Also, there are 13 Houses in the full Zodiac including Ophiuchus The Serpent Bearer. There are 13 X 2,000 Year Ages in the Platonic Great Year Cycle of 26,000 Years. Just as there are 13 Moon Cycles (Full to New to Full) of 28 Days or 4 Weeks in a Solar Year. 28 X 13 = 364 days + 1.25 days = A Year And A Day (+ leap years). Each Week Day (a turning) is dedicated to an allegorical sky god. Sun-day, Moon-day, Mars of Mardi (Twi of Tuesday), Mercury of Mercredi (Woden of Wednesday), Jupiter of Jeudi (Thor of Thursday), Venus of Vendredi (Freya of Friday), Saturn of Saturday. Venus-Lucifera, The Morning Star, The Bearer of Light, The Divine Mother, The Holy Ghost, The Statue of Liberty, The Torch Bearing Bearer of Light visual pun, Columbia Goddess. She who bore and gave birth to the sun god (Horus, Ra, Apollo, Jesus, etc.). Do you know the fable of Osiris (Moon) being cut up over 14 nights (Full to New) by Set (of the Night) and then Isis (Venus, Mother of Horus, the Sun/Son) reassembling him over 14 nights (New to Full) but that his giggle tackle fell into the River Nile and was eaten by fish, so lost? Moon God = Jehovah, Baal, Osiris, Yahweh, El or Allah. Obelisk, O-Baal-isk. Shaft of Baal. The missing giggle tackle. The tallest one is in DC at 555.5 feet tall, 6666 inches. 6666 is divisible by 3 for the 3, 4, 5 sacred triangle symbolism. Located on God's Longitude 77° West of London Greenwich Zero Longitude. United Grand Lodge England (UGLE) is in London. DC is 38.5 ° Latitude North of the Equator, 77/2=38.5. The Holy Trinity family with the Holy Ghost Mother. Venus, Isis, Minerva, Aphrodite, Freya, Athena, Astarte, etc. In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, Amen (Amon-Ra) Moon Father + Venus Mother Begat The Sun/Son. Allegorical Symbolism: Sacred 3, 4, 5 right angle triangle. Vertical 3 = Father, Horizontal 4 = Mother, Hypotenuse = Son Square 3X3=9, Square 4X4 = 16, Square 5X5 = 25. 9+16 = 25. Father + Mother = Son. ☪= 🌞 The square of the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides. These sky gods were visible with the naked eye before telescopes. Allegorically, the Sinister Left Path Dark Path Craft of Satanism is not the same as the Right Path, White Path Craft of Luciferianism. See Black/White Masonic Chessboard and Yin/Yang symbolism. Allegorically, the Snake (Serpent) Enlightened "humanity" to the Knowledge (English), Gnosis (Greek) or Science (Latin) of the difference between Good versus Evil in the well-known "Garden of Eden" fable. It is the moral and ethical struggle that each Enlightened sentient mind/body organism has to struggle with internally, every day, during their incarnated existence. ~~~~~~~~~ IX XI (09/11) mm/dd or XI IX (11/09) was New Year Day, Enkutatash, because it marked the heliacal rising of Sirius (Dog-God) Canis-Major, the Star of Bethlehem and the annual flooding of the River Nile period. K is letter 11 so K9 is a pun for Canine (Sirius) and for 11th September. There was no year zero, which is a more modern maths concept. Anno Lucis = The Year of Light. Anno Domini = The Year of our Lord. Age of Taurus IX XI Anno Lucis Year I to MMI Age of Aries IX XI Anno Lucis Year MMI to MMMMI Age of Pisces IX XI Anno Lucis Year MMMMI to MMMMMMI Age of Aquarius IX XI Anno Lucis Year MMMMMMI to MMMMMMMMI ~~~~~~~~~ Age of Taurus Enkutatash Year 4001 BC (Age of Pisces Year 1) ~ 2001 BC. Age of Aries Enkutatash Year 2001 BC ~ Anno Domini Year 1 (Jesus-Fish). Age of Pisces Enkutatash Anno Domini 1 ~ AD 2001 (Jesus-Fish Era). Age of Aquarius Enkutatash (11th September) Anno Domini 2001 ~ 4001. ~~~~~~~~~ *13 HOUSE ZODIAC INCLUDING OPHIUCHUS linked to Moon (Moonth) cycles.* Rather like the Easter (Eostre) Moon linked fertility festival drifts around in "Spring" (in the Northern Hemisphere) the 28 day X 13 month Moon cycles drift around the Christian Era 12 month Solar Year a little. There was a bit of a Satanic sacrificial "ritual" going on in the US on the first day of this New Age of Aquarius. A K9 Bomb Sniffing Yellow Labrador Dog called SIRIUS (no kidding) allegedly died in the illegal demolition of the North Tower. ~~~~~~~~~ So Approximately: VIRGO = SEPTEMBER ~ OCTOBER LIBRA = OCTOBER ~ NOVEMBER SCORPIO = NOVEMBER ~ NOVEMBER OPHIUCHUS = NOVEMBER ~ DECEMBER SAGITTARIUS = DECEMBER ~ JANUARY CAPRICORN = JANUARY ~ FEBRUARY AQUARIUS = FEBRUARY ~ MARCH PISCES = MARCH ~ APRIL ARIES = APRIL ~ MAY TAURUS = MAY ~ JUNE GEMINI = JUNE ~ JULY CANCER = JULY ~ AUGUST LEO = AUGUST ~ SEPTEMBER

[@redpill6201]

​@James Warden Jr. The French Revolution tried to create a 10 day week, 30 day month, a 10-hour day, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. It obviously didn't catch on!

[@markrademaker5875]

"In the beginning God Created the heavens and the earth." [Genesis 1:1] He/The Triune God Did it in six 24-ish hour days then Rested on the seventh. Long story short, at the tower of Babel, The I Am/The Lord God Dispersed the people...they took with them the 7 day week. This is why we have a 7 day week. 🙂

[@davidbenner2289]

Bull sh*t.

[@naiman4535]

In Japanese: Sunday = Nichiyobi (Nichi = Sun); Monday = Getsuyobi (Getsu = Moon); Tuesday + Kayobi (Ka = Fire, for Mars, the fiery planet, or Kasei); Wednesday = Suiyobi (Sui = Water, for Suisei, the watery planet Mercury); Thursday = Mokuyobi (Moku = Wood, for Jupiter as the Wood planet, because its lines and markings resemble wood grain); Friday = Kinyobi (Kin = Gold or Metal, with Venus being the golden hued planet); Saturday = Doyobi (Do = Earth, because Saturn is earth colored). In Japanese astrology, the Sun was called Taiyo, or the Great Yang, as it was the Great Yang luminary; the Moon was called Taiyin, or the Great Yin luminary. The other five of the seven classical planets were each associated with each of the Chinese Five Elements: Mars = Fire; Saturn = Earth; Venus = Gold / Metal; Mercury = Water; and Jupiter = Wood.

[@danieldoherty5034]

Surprising connections! Thanks for posting.

[@debbiecurtis4021]

Very through explanation

[@juanausensi499]

The association of Jupiter with wood is very amusing, if you know what i mean :P

[@BBarNavi]

That's tied directly into Babylonian astrology

[@astrohari]

Great, new information.

[@clawsoon]

As a math kid, my guess was always that 7 was special to the Babylonians because it was the smallest number that didn't fit nicely into their base-60 number system. It's the smallest prime that creates infinitely repeating decimals if you try to divide with it when you're using base-60.

[@EMNstar]

Yeah, I think people forget all the time that different peoples over time used different mathematical base systems. We use base ten. That doesn't mean EVERYONE uses and used base ten.

[@urbangorilla33]

Seven is also interesting because it has a quite unusual repeating decimal. 1/7 is .142857 repeating infinitely. 2/7 is the same, just starting on the 2.

[@us3rG]

The moon

[@gljames24]

​@@EMNstarHeck. English still has remnants of base 12 and base 20 with the gross and the score.

[@Krishna13847]

how do you know base-60 and why do they used?

[@williamking3301]

In comparison, for example, the Ancient Egyptians had a solar calendar in which there were 10-day weeks comprising a 30-day month, with seasons tied to the flooding of the Nile. It would be interesting for you to make a video comparing the time reckoning systems of say the Hindus, Aztecs, Mayans, Arabs, and Incas.

[@hydrolito]

13 months a year would give 28 day month with one extra day plus leap year day.

[@justmote]

@@hydrolito this is the original amount of days in a month. The moon faces take exactly 28 days to complete and align directly with women's menstrual circle which in Africa we say "she's seeing the moon", as translated literally.

[@Inkulabi]

This may have been covered in the Zeitgeist documentaries

[@adiboy010]

Thanks for the comment.. I can say that hinduism does have a similar 7 planet name convention.. Somvar (moon day- monday) , Mangalvar (mars day - Tuesday), Budhvar (mercury day), Brahspativar (Jupiter day), Shukarvar (Saturn day) and Rawivar (sun day)..

[@ariapinandita9240]

According to Penanggalan Jawa (Saka-Mataram Islam calendar) in Java, Indonesia, we use a 5 day/week system (pancawara) and 7 day/week system (saptawara)... Yups... The legacy of Aji Saka/Ajiwaka... Our unifying figure from Kali Serayu river region (Bumi Majeti)...

[@peterwielhouwer426]

You can still see the clear Roman Latin influence in modern romance languages, too. For example compare the Roman weekdays with the Spanish and French names for those days: English - Latin/Roman - Spanish - French Monday - Lunae - lunes - lundi Tuesday - Martis - martes - mardi Wednesday - Mercurii - miércoles - mercredi Thursday - Iovis - jueves - juedi Friday - Veneris - viernes - vendredi

[@aldrinmilespartosa1578]

Filipino and Tagalog weekday names are practically a carbon copy to the Spanish version.

[@chrismill5303]

strange, though, that latin and the succeeding romance languages christianized (abrahamized?) "dies saturni" to reflect the hebrew "sabbath", while english retained the old name. saturday is "sabado" in spanish and "sabato" in italian. sunday, too, was imbued with religious significance as "dominicus".

[@andrewwalsh6790]

The English names for days of the week come from the names of norse gods

[@vulpes7079]

In Portuguese it's: Domingo - Sunday (from the Latin "dies Domini", or "day of the Lord") Segunda-feira - "second fair day Terça-feira - "third fair day" Quarta-feira - "fourth fair day" Quinta-feira - "fifth fair day" Sexta-feira - "sixth fair day" Sábado - Saturday (from the Biblical Sabbath) The "fair day" expression was equivalent to the modern English "business day". The medieval Portuguese did sometimes use the Spanish names (except for Sábado and Domingo) in their reckoning of the days of the week, but since that was a direct reference to pagan gods, the Church sought to stamp it out. That worked in Portugal, but much less so in Spain

[@chrismill5303]

@@vulpes7079 thanks for that! i thought the portuguese habit of putting numbers on their days came from the arabs (yowm al ahad, the first day, and so on...). your explanation makes more sense to me.

[@adiabd1]

For me that knows lunar calendar and always go to work before sunrise, in many times I can see the phases of the moon and from there I can simply deduce roughly what day is it. So my thought for why a week is seven days is simply because its the easiest way to divide a moon in four. Namings of those days depends on cultures so its fine which name we use

[@MrSanTang]

Exactly! No need to look any further than the moon. The moon is the easiest and most obvious celestial body to observe. It has been observed for many thousand years. Especially also because of its apparent relation to women menstrual cycles. The lunar phases were easily distinguished and were very early in human history associated with the passage of time. Of course the one day period was already known as constant. Observations confirmed that there are 28 days (counted with 28 rocks or twigs on the ground) between one full moon to another : that is a lunar month. Eventually, the moon phases were also observed as being constant. Full moon (1st row of rocks), Last quarter (2nd row), first quarter (3rd row) and new moon (4th row). Each are separated by seven days distributed on four rows of seven rocks. Voilà! This is how I imagine our prehistoric ancestors came up with this first 'magical' way of measuring time.

[@DontStopBrent]

“We have to go further back than creation.” That’s an interesting trick.

[@mickyfingaz5132]

Back before the book

[@thewberry]

Silly

[@darrenmott]

I thought the same thing. But then I caught myself n realize he must've meant before the bible

[@ryankelly5308]

For real, right? Babylon was founded around 2300 BC. For those like me they believe the Bible to be inspired by God and truth, it was literally at creation that God spoke a 7 day week into existence. This is a disappointing video to try and state with fact something otherwise.

[@ryankelly5308]

And on this note, Babylon did not grow in importance for either trade or technology until around 800 BC, which is more than likely when this came into common use in the empire. Moses wrote Genesis at around 1600 BC, reflecting inspiration given to Him by God who invented the 7 day week. Better question for me - why 365.25 days per year?

[@roxannamason4400]

Explain why Saturday mean sabbath in hundreds of the world's languages.

[@renemartin5729]

Why don't you explain it?

[@hassanwally9161]

In Arabic it’s “SABT” where all letters are pronounced. Maybe one is derived from the other.

[@TrevorRGHolt]

Just wow. I really appreciate how comprehensive this was through the eras.

[@vaibhavsaxena1084]

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[@antoinekubler7472]

Wednesday is named after Wotan, also known as Odin. The link is the following: Mercury is two-faces (metaphorically), as he protects thieves and merchants, side with one group one day and with a different one another day. Hence a “mercurial” type of character. The same goes with Odin, whose allegiance was very fluctuating.

[@anamicasinghkotwal]

. It is important to note here that Rig veda is dated nearly 3000 BCE by various scholars and historians but we Indians consider it to be tens of thousands if not hundred thousand year old. Although there also exists long list of other post Christ era texts like Aryabhatiyam by Aryabhata, Panchsidhhantika of Varahmihira , kalmadhava by Madhvacharya ,Siddhant shiromani by Bhaskarcharya to name a few. Theory and order Indian astronomers (siddhant jyotishi / khagol shastri) knew the Heliocentricity of the solar system before the Kepler’s Theory of Heliocentricity (1617-1621) which can be established by the facts mentioned in Aryabhatiyam (4th CE), Panchhsidhantikka(5-6TH CE ), Grahaganit (9TH CE ) .However while calculating the order of the day one needs to follow geocentric method .This is because we live on planet earth if we follow heliocentricity we will get Earth-Day instead of Sunday and Moon-day/Monday will get omitted altogether. To avoid this very error we follow geocentric model . One may get bewildered that as per vedic astrology we have 9 planets(pind) but we have 7 days ,the reason is Rahu and Ketu are considered to be lunar nodes not planets. To determine the order of weekdays one needs to know two things the first being speed of rotation of planets and the second being Hora (a Sanskrit word derived from another Sanskrit word Ahoratra meaning a complete Day ) . One ahoratra has 60 ghatis which is equal to 24 horas which corresponds to nearly 24 hours. To get the sequence of weekdays one must first arrange the planets from slowest to fastest (according to their speed of rotation). The order comes out to be Saturn(shani), jupiter (guru),mars(mangal) , Sun(ravi) , venus (shukr) , mercury(buddh ) and moon(som) .And afterwards he/she needs to make the list of hours from 1st to 24th in a row and then start assigning the each hour a graha/planet staring with Saturn ,followed by Jupiter, mars and so on as mentioned above in the order of their rotation velocity. When one reaches the bottom that is 24th hour one will get mars(mangal) as per order .Carry over to next row following this very sequence starting with 1st hour again upto 24th hour doing so upto seven times one will get 7 rows with 1st hour of each row represented by its dinpati .Therefore first row will have Saturn/shani in its 1st hour which is also its dinpati . In second row’s 1st hour one will have sun/ravi which is dinpati of 2nd row . In 3rd row’s first hour one will have moon/som which is also dinpati of 3rd row .In 4th row’s first hour person will get mars/mangal which is dinapti of the 4th . In 5th row’s first hour

[@anamicasinghkotwal]

For further information read regaveda

[@skrayraja]

Amazingly the days were named after the same Gods or heavenly bodies. Ravi war is Sunday and Ravi is Sun. Mangal war is Tuesday and mangal is mars and so on. Remarkable

[@roryclague5876]

Proto Indo-Europeans got around.

[@कश्परैना]

​@@roryclague5876 there is no indo -european thing.... it's Bharatiya civilization 🙏🙏

[@Sam-tz8ou]

@@कश्परैनाexactly

[@vaibhavsaxena1084]

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[@abhinaysingh8306]

@@roryclague5876 it's propaganda by europeans about proto indo european. we indians don't have any connection with west. we don't speak like them, don't look like them, our religion is very different than them.

[@THEScottCampbell]

I would think that the seven day week predated Babylon by at least 1,000 years from Sumer and Akkad.

[@SamPandiangan]

The 7 days of a week already exist before Babylon.

[@apmoy70]

In Greek the days of the week are named after the ordinal names of the cardinal numbers (bar Friday, Saturday & Sunday): Monday: Δευτέρα /ðefˈteɾa/ = Second Tuesday: Τρίτη /ˈtriti/ = Third Wednesday: Τετάρτη /teˈtarti/ = Fourth Thursday: Πέμπτη /ˈpempti/ = Fifth The three days that stray away from the norm: Friday: Παρασκευή /paɾasceˈvi/ = Preparation (after the name given to the day in the Christian Gospel of Mark (15:42): "Καὶ ἤδη ὀψίας γενομένης, ἐπεὶ ἦν παρασκευή, ὅ ἐστι προσάββατον" - "And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath" (English King James Version) Saturday: Σάββατο /ˈsavato/ < Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát) Sunday: Κυριακή /ciɾʝaˈci/ = Lord's (day). Note that all the names of the week in Greek have feminine gender (except Saturday which is neuter)

[@loistverberg900]

There are several other Greek references to the “day of preparation” being the day to prepare for the Sabbath - Friday. Alexander the great was very impressed with the Jewish Temple and brought many Jews in his army to Alexandria, Egypt. Their influence caused the Greeks to adopt the Jewish calendar. The Romans adopted the Greek calandar's style but filled it with pagan gods to mask the influence of the God of Israel.

[@johnrayner1643]

Probably also worth mentioning how the same Roman gods gave their names to French and Spanish (and probably others) days of the week - Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Venredi, Samedi, Dimanche or Lunes, Martes, Miercoles, and I forget the rest!

[@andreascandido2130]

Italian: lunedì, martedì, mercoledì, giovedì, venerdì, sabato e domenica

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

Just a slight correction: The days of the week are not capitalized in French.

[@simonruszczak5563]

There were no Roman gods or Roman Empire. Dr Anatoly Fomenko, book "History: Fiction or Science?".

[@adralestosdragonrider8759]

spanish lunes , martes, miercoles, jueves, viernes, sabado, domingo. moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus, saturn (more jewish sabath), domingo- domine day of the lord

[@Malfurionxtc]

Probably also worth to mention the "sabado" in Spanish, and "sabato" in Italian, are words for the "rest day/holiday - Sabbath" that originates in Bibble, corresponding for final day of the week. In roman scripts (not really found in Bibble, but in some other historical source), Sabbath was mentioned as day when Jewish people gathered and rested, and they (romans) used it to raid them more efficiently.

[@frankwalder3608]

An explanation I heard was that the Babylonians had six day weeks, six weeks in a month, and ten months in a year. An extra month was added to the beginning of every sixth year, and an extra week was added to the end of the tenth month every twenty-four years. According to the version I’m referring to, Romans originally had ten month years just like the Babylonian, and that Julius Caesar added “July” and Augustus Caesar added “August” named after themselves, taking days from February to make ‘their months’ 31-days long.

[@silencemeviolateme6076]

Not sure about the end part. Julius Caesar reformed the calendar. Augustus just renamed august. Also winter has fewer days than summer.

[@jozefkostelansky]

In Slavian languages the names have completely different origin of names: Sunday = nedeľa - from nedělá = without work Monday = pondelok - from po neděli = day after nedeľa = the day after sunday Tuesday = utorok - from vtoroj = the second (day) Wednesday = streda from stred = middle (of the week) Thursday = štvrtok - from štvrtý = the fourth (day) Friday = piatok - from piaty = the fifth (day) Saturday = sobota - from Jewish Sabbath = Saturday - but for Jewish it is like our Sunday A week starts on Monday, and not on Sunday. So standard 2 days weekend is always in the same week. 😀

[@nyagolnyagolov7130]

Sabbath was deliberately translated to ...'the first day of the week'.... in the Bible, so to fit the changed day of worship by the pagan emperor Constantine when he created his fake hybrid pseudo-religion in the 4th century! You can check the oldest manuscripts on the matter! He deliberately divided the Church to conquer it, roman style, using 1/6 of the bishops who became apostates! In Bulgarian the days are like in Polish, but in Greek they differ! Ponedelnik/ponedelok is deutera which means second day of the week, and so on till you reach the 7th day called sabbato! And kiriaki/Sunday was called first day before the above mentioned fakery! And of course, the 7 day week comes from the Bible as it is a narrative of the Creation, Babylon was made centuries later! Every culture must have had some notion of the story as there are many stories of the Flood!

[@CATAZTR0PHE]

Wow, I'm from Poland and it is very interesting, and indeed our words reminds those you mentioned. Niedziela, poniedziałek, wtorek, środa, czwartek, piątek, sobota.

[@nyagolnyagolov7130]

@@CATAZTR0PHE Wow did you read what I wrote as a Christian and a Bulgarian?

[@nicolashoareau5992]

Sounds very similar to Russian, except Sunday, which is "воскресенье" (i.e. "the day of the resurrection).

[@modmaker7617]

Every Slavic language uses the same exact names of the week except Russian. Russian using a different word for Sunday for some reason.

[@gshenaut]

I assumed that the Babylonian mathematicians were trying to make a solar calendar. A pretty accurate way to do that is to have four seasons each with 13 seven-day weeks. This yields 364 days. Add one or two extra festival days per year and that's quite accurate.

[@entropy5431]

Not really as your maths relies on 4 seasons as accepted knowledge. The seasons are totally blurred and overlap in reality and could easily be defined as three.

[@gshenaut]

@@entropy5431 No, it's just based on computing an accurate solar year with small integers. You could call them “fourths” if you don't want to know about seasons. But, since seasons were based originally on basic things such as when a sundial's shadow lines up exactly or when the day is shortest or longest or equal in duration to the night, I doubt the ancient Babylonians would have ignored that correspondence.

[@entropy5431]

@@gshenaut Just no.

[@retardno002]

@@entropy5431 what season is redundant in the easily defined 3 season year? Depending on geographical position you could even say there are 2, but 3 is very odd (no pun intended). I'm genuinely curious.

[@entropy5431]

@@retardno002 It doesn't really matter which one you remove but summer would make most sense for the English climate (joking a little). The ancient Egyptians had 3 seasons.

[@frankb3347]

The ancients also knew of seven metals (gold, silver, mercury, tin, copper, lead, and iron) that were each associated with a different one of the seven heavens (aka "planets"). Not to mention the seven primary colors. For example Venus = copper = orange = Friday.

[@theophrastusbombastus1359]

The world's first religion. The only true religion that all others were born from.

[@deirdre108]

@@theophrastusbombastus1359 And that would be the Sumerian religion, right?

[@theophrastusbombastus1359]

@@deirdre108 Before even that. Long before. The Atlantean religion, which many would call today Hermetecism or Alchemy

[@retiredtom1654]

We're never too old to learn, and today I did. Thanks!

[@lexx2645]

Amazing work as always! Still definitely the best channel. Very informative and extremely well-made video.

[@Tsukiyasi]

In portuguese the names of the days are so simple. Sunday is considered the last day of the week, it's called "Domingo", coming from the Latin "dies Dominica" or "Day of the Lord", it was the first day of the fair. Them comes Monday, "Segunda-feira", the meaning is just the second day of the fair, but we never say "feira", we just say Segunda, that just means second. It's the same for all the other days, "Terça-feira" terça meaning third, "Quarta-feira" quarta meaning fourth, "Quinta-feira" quinta meaning fifth and "Sexta-feira" sexta meaning sixth. And there's Saturday, that we call "Sábado" which comes from hebrew shabbatt

[@Thisissparta1972]

very good. it is said that an arianist fled nicaea to bracari ,modern day braga, and somehow had an impact on the naming of the days because he later on became a saint... I read that somewhere and I might be wrong but still

[@andrewlankford9634]

5:13 Our word "planet" comes from the Greek word for "wanderer". It originally wasn't the huge ball of non-stellar matter that we conceive of now, but a distant object moved against the background of stars. Galileo and Copernicus weren't around to change their understanding.

[@familyshare3724]

Exactly. Who are we to say "they didn't understand"? We changed the definition because "we don't understand".

[@danielmaher964]

​@familyshare3724 thank you. Modern thinking is so narrow.

[@familyshare3724]

@@danielmaher964 I call it "arrogance from ignorance". For example, you will hear elementary teachers actually say that the "geocentric model is wrong". No it's not, it's exactly what we see with our eyes, standing on the Earth. No human has nor will ever directly perceive a heliocentric model. The "classical planets" are the "wandering stars we consistently see with our eyes", including of course, the Sun and Moon, but not Uranus, Neptune, etc

[@danielmaher964]

@familyshare3724 you should read The Discarded Image by CS Lewis, you'd love it. I think you're spot on.

[@familyshare3724]

@@danielmaher964 I'll pick it up. Thanks for the tip!

[@deniss2623]

Whatever the secondary reasons, the universal seven-day week bears eloquent testimony to the six days of creation plus the Sabbath.(Genesis 1) Glory to God!

[@janekay4147]

Amen..

[@danielmalinen6337]

Possibly there were two Germanic groups, one choosing Frigga (frīatag/frīgedæg) and the other choosing Freyja (frjádagr/frīadagher). And I would consider this to be proven in the way how Swedish "fredag" and Finnish "perjantai" are pronounced. And it is more suitable with Freyja than with Frigga. But the Frigga became a Swedish "flicka" (girl) and a Finnish "likka" (gal).

[@bradhartliep879]

My Grandmother's Name was "Frieda" - she was born in the US but her Parents and Older Sisters were all born in Sweden and Immigrated to the US just before my Grandma was born .. but there is also "Frida" in Switzerland [Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA, born to a Norwegian Mother and German Father but grew up and still lives in Sweden] - are these two names cognate to each other or do they have a different meaning / different linguistic trail? .. Is "Frid" / "Frida" the Norwegian variant of Swedish "Frieda"? ..

[@Tim_Nilsson]

​@@bradhartliep879 The spelling in Swedish is Frida. That was my great grandmothers (1901-2002) name and is still common. The oldest recording of the name in Sweden is from 1388. Frida is pretty much the only spelling you'll find in Scandinavia. Frieda I'd say is more German than anything so you might have German ancestry as well. Stockholm specifically had quite a large German population if you go back some hundred years. After a little research other variants can apparently also be Freida, Freda and Frinta. In older Swedish/Norse the word "fridh" apparently meant the beloved or beautiful which the Swedish version of the name is based on. In modern Swedish the words "frid" means peace so it's the same as German "friede". So Frida and Frieda might have different meanings depending on what the German origin is.

[@EebstertheGreat]

One thing worth mentioning is the order of the days. Why do the days go in an order that seems unrelated to the order of the planets? Apparently it comes from a somewhat confusing convention. Astrologers divided the day into 24 hours and named each hour after a planet. The classical planets were thought to circle the Earth at different speeds and distances, and the ones that tended to move fastest across the sky were thought to be the closest. So the planets were ordered from most- to least-distant Saturn-Jupiter-Mars-Sun-Venus-Mercury-Moon, and hours were also given the same names in a cycle. This will repeat every 7 days, i.e. once a week, and each day of the week was named after the first hour of that day. So if a week starts on the Sun hour, then the first day is Sunday. The 8th hour of the day will be Sun again, as well as the 15th and 22nd. Then the 23rd hour will be Venus, and the 24th Mercury, making the first hour of the next day Moon. So the second day of the week was Moon day. Going like this gives the order Sun-Moon-Mars-Mercury-Jupiter-Venus-Saturn, which is still reflected in the names today.

[@chrismichael6048]

In Malay, every name of 7 days originally came from their Arabic root. Monday=hari Isnin (means Day 2), Tuesday=hari Selasa (means Day 3), Wednesday=hari Rabu (means Day 4), Thursday=hari Khamis (means Day 5), Friday=hari Juma'at (means Day of Congegration), Saturday=hari Sabtu (means Day 7), Sunday=hari Ahad (means Day 1); also known as hari Minggu (means Day of Our Lord, originally came from Portuguese word Domingo)

[@marutanray]

it isnt arabic. it is chinese. days of the week are numbered in chinese.

[@franciscoflamenco]

@@marutanray You're very easily proven wrong. 1. The names of the days listed by @crismichael6048 have the Arabic names of the numbers (if they are numbered). 2. The Chinese system uses Monday as the first day, while the Malay system starts from Sunday as the first day.

[@marutanray]

@@franciscoflamenco the arabic influence on malaya is recent. the chinese influence is older.

[@franciscoflamenco]

@@marutanray I'm sure you're able to realize on your own that that's a completely different topic to the one being discussed.

[@Normal_user_coniven]

@@marutanray As an Arabic native speaker, I can confirm that we say: Sunday Ahad Monday Ithnein Tuesday Thulatha Wednesday Arbia Thursday Khamis Friday Jum'ah Saturday Sabt They didn't even translate it, they kept the same names as we pronunce it in Arabic. But, Sabt can be either from Sab'ah wich means seven, or from the Semetic word Sabt/Subat which means rest or sleep, as Jews saying. And, about the Chinese week in Malay Archapilo, they must had left it. In Arabic we had different names in pre-Islamic era, but left it and made new one.

[@RealitySurvival]

You are forgetting that the oral tradition of Genesis had been passed down for thousands of years since at least Abraham at around 4000BC. Moses didn't learn everything about the book of Genesis at the burning bush he was just given the 10 Commandments. Im not suggesting that 7 days necessarily did come from the Jewish religion, although it may well have. I am just noting that your history is inaccurate because at the time oral traditions were the more common way to pass down history.

[@bradhartliep879]

The ORIGINAL God of the Israelites was NOT "Yahweh" - it was EL .. EVERY single Israelite before Moses worshipped EL - they didn't have a clue who "Yahweh" was until Moses came back from wandering in the desert stoned off his gourd and lying through his teeth .. Yahweh was the god of the Midianites [ Moses' Wife was a Midianite ] .. he was a MINOR SUB GOD below the Supreme God .. the entire old testament of Moses is BULLSHIT ..

[@graemesandstrom5654]

How amazing! Isn’t it incredible that normally, people just take the number and the names of the week days for granted. Why doesn’t every school child know this information? There’s enough historical, geographic, linguistic, astronomical, mathematical, scientific and history of religious branches to investigate for 7 months never mind 7 days! Thank you 🙏👍🇦🇺

[@us3rG]

Kids don't learn how to navigate or anything about the world and the stars as it relates to us, they're just taught how to be good employees Linguistics should be studied like Linguistics History should be taught from words, numbers, arts, music, trade ....point of view

[@anisothmen3712]

In Arabic days are named after numbers (1,2,3,4,5 ) exept Friday and Saturday . Friday is called the gathering (because people gather for prayer ) and Saturday is the Arabic name of shabbath in Hebrew (sabt )

[@rubberneckershorts8314]

The Babylon tower is mentioned in the book of Genesis of the Bible and was built by the decedents of Noah. So there's still very good reason to believe that the 7 day celebration came from the actual history being told in the Bible. And the same reason every 7th day is religiously significant to the Babylonians (as you mention in the video). It would be the day that God rested. We call it the Sabbath day.

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

The Babylonians did not believe in "God".

[@jadenephrite]

Regarding 4:52, the astrological symbols for the planets were also represented by their alchemy symbols. The symbol ♀for the planet Venus was the alchemy symbol for copper. The symbol ♂for the planet Mars was the alchemy symbol for iron. The symbol ♃ for the planet Jupiter was the alchemy symbol for tin. The symbol ♄ for the planet Saturn was the alchemy symbol for lead. The symbol ☿ for the planet Mercury was the alchemy symbol for the metal Mercury. The symbol ☉ for the sun was the alchemy symbol for gold. The symbol ☾ for the Moon was the alchemy symbol for silver.

[@bravehome4276]

Just to be clear: One. There is no historical evidence indicating that the Hebrews took a seven day week from the Babylonians. Two. The seven day week was standardized in “modern“ times by Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome. Three. The Hebrew week begins on Sunday, and ends on the Sabbath, Saturday.

[@hubertk7363]

Latin and Germanic weekdays: Gods and Celestial bodies and stuff Slavic weekdays: Sunday - the one you don't work on Monday - the one after Sunday Tuesday - the second one (after Sunday) Wednesday - the middle one Thursday - the fourth one (after Sunday) Friday - the fifth one (after Sunday) Saturday - the sabbath

[@badidea932]

the spanish language had influence on the philippine languages because of spanish colonization english - spanish - filipino sunday - domingo - linggo monday - lunes - lunes tuesday - martes - martes wednesday - miércoles - miyerkules thursday - jueves - huwebes friday - viernes - biyernes saturday - sábado - sabado although in my native language waray we also use "domingo" for sunday instead of "linggo"

[@ವಿರೂ-ಯ4ಜ]

I am KARNATAKA (BHARAT, INDIA) our forefathers named seven days on the basis of planet. They considered Sun moon and venus as planets and named days of week as follows (Var = Day) Ravi var (Sun) Soma var (moon) Mangal var (mars) Budha var (mercury) Guru var (jupiter (teacher)) Shukra var (venus) Shani var (neptune)

[@KhalidHussain-]

Shani is saturn, not neptune

[@ansiaaa]

in Italian we kept the original roman names (Monday - Lunedì, from Luna - Moon, Tuesday is Martedì, from Marte - Mars, ...), apart from Sunday. For us is Domenica, which comes from dies Dominicus (day of the Lord), influenced by the Catholic religion that dominated our territory

[@imaginaryangle]

I learned bits and pieces of this story from different places, but your video ties them all together so nicely. Thank you!

[@LordGertz]

Akkad and Ur were both using a 7 day week and existed prior to Babylon.

[@Hfil66]

The other significance of the number 7 is that many consider it to be approximately the number of items a human can store in short term memory. This was why for a long while phone numbers were 7 digits long (not so any longer, but these days few people can remember phone numbers easily, they just use their contact list on their phone to recall their phone numbers).

[@colinmccarthy7921]

I learn something new everyday.❤️

[@346UNCLEBOB]

28 (number of days in a lunar cycle) factors by 4 and 7. This 28 day period can be divided into 7, 4 day weeks or 4, 7 day weeks. Four days per week is to short so seven days per week it is.

[@Altinget]

The week is the 4 phases of the moon: The four primary moon phases are: New Moon. First Quarter. Full Moon. Third Quarter (Last Quarter)

[@PrivateSi]

Yes, but the question is how and WHY... "It takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes for our Moon to complete one full orbit around Earth. This is called the sidereal month, and is measured by our Moon's position relative to distant “fixed” stars. However, it takes our Moon about 29.5 days to complete one cycle of phases (from new Moon to new Moon)."..... -- If they were just going by observed phases they'd have ranged from 28 to 31 days so could have easily chosen 30 day cycle and 6*5 or 5*6 day weeks... 360/30 days = 12 months all the same length + 5 (and a bit) extra days in a year... 28*13 months = 364 days so only 1 day short... Yet the ancients used 12 zodiac, 12 month calendars from early times. for 12 month calendars 6*5 (or possibly 5*6 but 5 can't be divided by 2 for a half-moon) makes more sense, with 30 day months + 5 day holiday time.. -- It seems various systems have been shoe-horned together.. Perhaps some places had 13 month calendars and 28 day months so 7 day weeks became the norm, then the zodiac lot forced their 12 month system and had to make all the months different lengths to fit it into 365... 13 months in the year and 4x7 day weeks in a month makes more sense if you want to make all the months the same length, which also makes more sense.. -- The Ancients were somewhat confused!

[@celtspeaksgoth7251]

also anyone can gauge the duration of the phases of the moon - new to half (7) half to full (7) full to half (7) half to new (7). That's where the 7 comes from. To ancient man there were only two heavenly objects which clearly moved. In Welsh the days are : Dydd Sul (sol, Latin), Llun (lunar), Mawrth (Mars), Mercher (Mercury), Iau (Iove = Jupiter), Gwener (Venus), Sadwrn (Saturn)

[@PrivateSi]

@@celtspeaksgoth7251 .. Then why not 13 months of 28 days = 364 days.. Could have gone with 6x5 day weeks, 12x30 months = 360 + 5 day holiday.. This can be divided into 2. 11*32=352+13 day holiday .. 12*28=336+29 day holiday so that doesn't make sense.. It's more complicated than you think, a mixture of compromises / systems shoehorned into someone else's system.. 13 months * 28 days + New Year's Eve holiday is the most sensible solution for modern times if you ask me... But 99% would disagree!

[@davidlamb1107]

@@PrivateSi You're not crazy. I completely agree with you and have for years.

[@thomaslyall3841]

The days of the week in Thai also use the "seven planets", making it relatively easy for me to name these "planets" once I had learned the days of the week. Interestingly, modern Greek does NOT follow the norm. Sunday = kiriaki (primary), Monday= deftera (second), Tuesday = triti (third), Wednesday = tetarti (fourth), Thursday = pemti (fifth), but Friday (= paraskevi) and Saturday (= savato) depart from this numerical progression.

[@donaldziemer1919]

Day light savings time messes up everything!!!!!!

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

In norway Saturday is called "lørdag" wich was earlier "lauderdag" which, means washing day, so, some people think being clean is more important than some god, probably 6 gods was sufficient they thought

[@chagildoi]

Amazing channel! I just “discovered” it and I’m binge watching your videos. Glad to see you’re getting sponsors!

[@vaibhavsaxena1084]

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[@alexanderSydneyOz]

I have a couple of comments to add. 2600 BC was well before the Babylon of which you know. Rather that was early dynastic Sumer. Akkadians with the north of Sumer in the area where stood, but by 1800 BC had ruled the area and already collapsed. Babylonians in the time of hammurabi were amorites who were from the Levant. Babylon was always culturally diverse but not descended from akkadians. Regarding the number 7, its use as the number of days of the week might have special connection with the lunar cycle, but that would be a special case. Ancient writings from the earliest of the Ur 1 period through to greco Roman mythology and later, are riddled with the number 7. It plainly has greater significance than anything related to time. 7 non stars visible in the sky seems the most credible

[@rkozakand]

There seems to be confusion as to why the sun and moon were considered planets. The word planet means wanderer, and originally referred to the 7 objects which moved across the sky against the background of the "fixed stars". We changed the definition of the word after Copernicus.

[@TrevorRGHolt]

The sun and moon are historically called planets e.g. celestial bodies as most histories actually translate it.

[@TrevorRGHolt]

Planet and celestial bodies are synonymous because of what they turned out to be

[@Delgen1951]

Seven is the number of completion and the number of God in Hebrew and six is the number of man (Adam), and a fortnight is two seven-day periods that was also used as a "week" by some other peoples. Also, anyone who works know that the real Monday's name is Morday.

[@imamsev]

I believe the Babylonian’s took the seven days from the prophets like Ibrahim and Noah etc.

[@nigelandmarycurtis3765]

Sunday’s name came from the day pagans worshipped the sun, and Monday from the day they worshipped the moon. The word “fortnight” is a shortened term for “fourteen nights”, ie two weeks. An old, unused term for a week is “se’n night).

[@happyface96]

@@imamsev makes sense as the story of creation was passed down through word of mouth from Adam to the early kingdoms/empires of the Bronze age, the significance of 7 would have already been preeminent to Sumerian culture even before the existence of the First Babylonian empire. It would only be written in stone by Moses centuries later depicting a story already commonly known culturally in the near east.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@happyface96 true.

[@HolgerJakobs]

_fortnight_ is something very British. In all other languages I know there isn't even a word for a 14 day period.

[@momochiyoda2960]

7:11 thousand/s of years later English = Spanish Monday = lunes Tuesday = martes Wednesday = miércoles Thursday = jueves Friday = viernes Saturday = sábado Sunday = domingo

[@JorgeBrown]

The word Babylon is often referred mostly because the first ancient documents translated were related to Babylon. However, most of all knowledge of even older civilisation such as Summer is also named Babylon. The specifics of this video refer to Summer not to Babylon.

[@mirpopolos6209]

You mean Sumer. Summer is a season.

[@JorgeBrown]

@@mirpopolos6209 Yes, you are right. Thanks! It was the bloody auto-correct. But the core of the comments keeps valid.

[@sergelevesque2718]

Great, this video comes to my KZbin recommendations just as my 4 year-old started asking why there are 7 days in a week! How on point! .........or should I be really worried?

[@anacondaeunectes1854]

Saturday is named after the Roman deity Saturn. The Greek Titan (NOT Roman) was called Kronos.

[@ToyTruck]

Here on the island of Java, Indonesia, we have 5 days in 1 week: Kliwon, Legi, Pahing, Pon, Wage.

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

Looking forward to a similar video about the names of the months.

[@redpill6201]

For September to be the 7th Month and December the 10th Month you would need New Year to be March 1st (Mars God of War). April is for the Goddess Aphrodite. May, the Greek goddess Maia. June sacred to Juno. July, Julius Cæsar, + Augustus Cæsar. January the month of Janus. February, the Roman festival of purification called Februa. But, if you see my long post in the top pinned thread, New Year Day could instead be 11th September, in a 13 Moonth Lunar Calendar, based on the 13 Houses of the Zodiac including Ophiuchus.

[@phantomforester9337]

Thanks for the multiple explanations. By the way, your buttons are on the wrong side.

[@dg-hughes]

I think the base 12 counting system of Sumeria must have influenced Babylonia. They may have broken the year in 12 months knowing the moon was about 28 days so a month was known. That would mean one month 365 days/12 would be 30 days per month. Then those 30 days were probably be broken up into four groups of seven days for some reason. Maybe dividing a 30 day month by three or five giving a ten day or six day week meant that those didn't fit some ritual or people just didn't like those numbers.

[@hankwilliams150]

Around 9:00 you have Thursday misspelt as Thurday.

[@walterulasinksi7031]

On the basis of Occam’s razor, the most likely explanation was the cycle of the moon. This being the 28 day cycle between full moon and full moon. Secondly,it divided down to the four week, seven day period. Uniquely, it also corresponds to the fertility cycle of human females. The Hebrew year consisted of 13 months, most likely from the Babylonians also as a measure of the winter solstice. While these were not exact, as the Babylonians worked out mathematically and through observation, they like most humans were pragmatic and used the easiest method available.

[@fanOmry]

No. The Jewish year has twelve months. Every seven years Hadar repeats.

[@arieleden]

@@fanOmry Wrong the second Hadar is added every 3 years, but because the cycle is 19 years (the sun cycle) at least once in that cycle second Hadar is added after 2 years.

[@fanOmry]

@@arieleden מה?

[@arieleden]

@@fanOmry לא הבנתה מה כתבתי?

[@fanOmry]

@@arieleden כן. אדר ב' זה פעם בשבע שנים...

[@graemesandstrom5654]

How interesting.. why isn’t every schoolchild taught this vital information! There’s enough information with all of the historical, linguistic, mathematical, geographical, astronomical and religious extensions to keep a teacher busy for 7 months let alone 7 days. Amazing ! 🙏👍🇦🇺

[@georgegonzalez-rivas3787]

I did know all this information as a schoolchild. I knew how to read for myself.

[@vaibhavsaxena1084]

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[@pentegarn1]

Its actually not strange at all that they seen Woten (Odin) as Mercury. We know from Caesar's "Gallic Wars" that Caesar decided the Celt's main God was Mercury. So it's not much of stretch to assume the Celt's neighbors pretty much had a similar God in charge of their pantheon. Just like the Celts had a one handed God and their neighbor had a similar one handed God.

[@JTStonne]

I think the 7 day week is based on the lunar calendar of 13 periods of 28 days (4 weeks of 7 days). Later the 13th period was divided among the 12 months resulting in various number of days per month.

[@media-rn6zc]

Ancient Hindus created lunisolar calendar which gave rise 7 day week.

[@infinite5795]

This Babylonian system is somewhat similar to the indigenous/traditional lunisolar calendars followed in India as well, by the Hindus as well Buddhists and jains who modelled it on Old Hindu/Sanskrit calendar. In Sanskrit, the days of the week are also associated with a specific planet( Hindus worship the personification of that planet in form of a god, their positions are consulted for horoscopes), they are:- 1)Monday- Somavasarah- Moon aka Chandra( the white one responsible for the thoughts and relations). 2)Tuesday- Mangalavasarah- Mars aka Mangala( the reddish-brown one responsible for wars) 3) Wednesday- Budhavasarah- Mercury aka Budha( the greenish one responsible for mental clarity and intelligence) 4) Thursday- Guruvasarah- Jupiter aka Brhaspati( the whitish one for luck and prosperity) 5) Friday- Shukravasarah- Venus aka Shukracharya( the golden one for luxuries and comforts) 6) Saturday- Shanivasarah- Saturn aka Shani( the black one for justice and Karma) 7) Sunday- Ravivasarah- Sun aka Surya/Ravi( the bright one who controls all these planets). Yes we Hindus also consider Sun and moon as planets, but somehow, we also believe that all planets depend on the sun for their influences and support. Also, Rahu and Ketu are considered 2 extra planets( North lunar node and South lunar node respectively). They are planets in Hindu astrology as they are believed to influence our life although they don't have any physical existence and are considered accountable due to eclipses. But, Hindu astronomy doesn't consider them as traditional planets, for the past 2500 years or so.

[@nuwanda923]

Do you know when did the seven day week format instaur in India? I am so curious about the “week” system. Did one particular day associate with a no-work day?

[@swapnilkakde3339]

​@@nuwanda923 Answer lies in a scripture called "Jyotisha Shastra" which is a small part of " Vedanga" which is a part of " Veda". As per what I've perceived to some extent by doing some dig up, different days are ruled by different "Graha". (Graha cannot be translated exactly as planets, but just to understand what I'm tryinna say rn we can consider it). There are total 7 Graha(same as shown in the video), which influence life on the earth. And Sunday is actually the first day being influenced by sun. It is considered to be an auspicious day to start working, and not a holiday. You may easily find related videos on yt. Try some Sanskrit/Vedic awareness channel to skip through incidental truffles. good luck.

[@haydenbsiegel]

Just a heads up on the Biblical portion. In Judaism we read it in Hebrew and the term for day is an irregular noun יום which can be used to account for multiple days. In the Talmud this is explained and each "day" is recognized as an undetermined length. Hence why it is believed there were 987 generations before humankind as we know it. Yom or יום is just a catch all term for an action performed and isn't necessarily linked to the 24hr day. Figured it might kind of a cool comment for this video.

[@lourdescorreia4201]

Saturday is the seventh day of the week.Sabbath is Yahuah rest day after He’s Creation .

[@trackinggod8087]

Hmm... Just wondering how you can go back further than the creation week. ;-)

[@mirpopolos6209]

You go from Latin to "Germanic" to Anglo-Saxon to English, but ignore German. In German, Wednesday is Mittwoch which simply means Midweek . Tuesday is Dienstag which seems to mean Service Day (cf "Ich dien"). I have heard it said that this day was devoted to working for the feudal lord instead of oneself (although if everyone did that on the same day, wouldn' t it have made his land overcrowded, and left unattended on all the other days ?). It has also been suggested that Dien refers to a sort of democratic assembly for freemen held on that day, the "ting" of "hustings". That seems the most likely.

[@AbWischBar]

Mittwoch is indeed the middle of the week, which however only works if Sunday (Sonntag) is considered the first day of the week. As a child, our calendar weeks started with Monday. First later i found out that Sunday was considered the beginning. I do find it more likely, that Dienstag does actually derive from the same roots as Tuesday - the good Tyr, which in old Germanic was called Teiwa (Tiwesdæg). And yes, Tyr was the protector of the Thing (pronounced Ting). The word “Ting” - meaning assembly of the people - is still in use in Nordic countries, as an example in Danish: folketing, tinglysning etc. Though as a German, before i moved to the Nordic countries and got familiar with all these words, I also considered the relation to “duty” “Dienst/dienen” as the origin. Just did not make any sense :)

[@mirpopolos6209]

@@AbWischBar Thank you so much ! That is very interesting. I never actually counted where the mathematical middle was, but assumed the Germans had got it right, being very technical. Of course, the Jews started all this, and God made "the light" on the first day, which must mean the sun on Sunday, mustn't it ? The TH in "thing" must have been pronounced differently at some stage, as it must have in Theresienbad and Thalkirchdorf, Thüringen and Thurmstein, usw. It's like RH in Rhein or Rhine (the English), or Rhöndorf, or Rhossili and Rhyl (both in Wales, like many others), or WH in white (not black). RH is a special kind of R in Welsh, and many Scottish people pronounce WH properly, but it is dying out in England (my mother did it), It sounds like "hwite", which I think is how it was spelt in Anglo-Saxon, but the two sounds are pronounced together (an aspirated English W --- don't even try this in Germany !). The Welsh people expect us to do LL more or less correctly, but RH is never mentioned. As for our English "husting" (or "hustings", which has become more common) the Concise Oxford Dictionary reveals that the "hus" is "house". Why didn't I think of that ? It comes from Old Norse, and means "House Assembly" (I suppose this would be the big house in the village, where everyone met in the Great Hall, rather like Westminster Hall the oldest part of the Houses of Parliament). Even in the 18th century (when we had democracy, sort of anyway ) I can imagine hustings being held in the big house where the candidate lived ! As I mentioned "ich dien" for the convenience of English people, you may not realise why. It is the motto of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales (similar to Crown Prince, in effect), The Prince of Wales killed the King of Bohemia (König von Böhmen) and stole it from him, also his feathers. Mind you, this was in 1346. Those two words are also similar to "Your man" in Welsh, which is what the Prince of Wales says loyally to the Queen (or usually King). The modern Welsh is "Eich Ddyn" . Funny, that ! But on the tomb of the first prince of Wales to use the motto, it is shown as "Ich diene", and of course, altogether it does mean "I am your man; I serve you". It fits very well ! Perhaps Prince Edward said "Wow, that's just the thing for me !". This was at the Battle of Crécy. I don't know why he was there. Hustings is quite an unusual word now. It means Wahlveranstaltung. People have televisions these days instead.

[@HolgerJakobs]

​​@@AbWischBarActually, there is an ISO standard for date and time, and it says that the week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. Since Saturday and Sunday are considered the weekend, this makes sense. Plus, according to the Bible, earth and its inhabitants were created in six days, so God could rest on the seventh day, which is Sunday. Of course that's just a tale, but even the week itself is something man-made. Mittwoch is the middle of the work week.

[@Defferleffer]

The week days in Scandinavia are of the same origin, execept the Norse replaced Saturday with Laugardagr (washing day), now lørdag/lördag.

[@dcmurray6466]

Don't wish to appear picky or anything, but at 8:58 you have spelled 'Thursday' wrong. It is missing an 's'. Yes, I know. I am too pedantic for my own good, but I do have Asperger's, so that's my excuse.

[@devidaspagar439]

Week system came From भारत (INDIA) WORLD OLDEST ASTRONOMY BOOK ' SURYA SIDHHANTA ' ( Indian Book) Surya Siddhanta : ~ 7300 BCE Surya Siddhanta has explanation in (Bhugoladhyaya -78) why week has 7 days ? How did week name derive ? detailed explanation kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4Hdan9thamgnZY The only rational explanation for the nomenclature of the weekdays comes from an INDIAN source. No other culture provides any reason for why a particular graha (planet) is associated with a particular day of the week. Only the Indian Jyotish (Hora-shastra) provides the rational, and not some folklore reason, but rather an astronomical one. Another Book: Aryabhatiya - astronomy Book ~ (476 AD - 550 AD) Also has detailed explanation in (Aryabhatiya, KalaKriya Pada, Verse, 16) I am asserting that ancient cultures of Europe/Africa/Arabia (Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylonia, etc.) were not aware of the true rationale behind naming and sequence of week days There are many things things INDIA gave first but We are not good at marketing. HOPE, World will know india's contribution

[@dpainter1526]

...You can't go back further than The Creation... Literally Day 1. (???) Another reason comes to mind on why the Babylonians adopted the seven day week: the Israelites were captured and enslaved by the Babylonians, and it is not unreasonable to me to suppose that some of their customs were adopted by them, especially as at least one prominent Israeli, King Jehoiachin, even lived in the palace and ate regularly with the Babylonian king (King Amel- Marduk, or Evil-Merodach). Given that King Nebuchadnezzar also acknowledged the God of Israel as Lord, he probably would have wanted to incorporate at least some of the new-found God's ways into Babylonian life.

[@allanrichardson9081]

Most of the Romance languages use the Roman names for the work week, but copy the Hebrew Bible in calling Saturday some derivative of Shabat, as Spanish Sábado (even when it isn’t “Gigante”), and copy the New Testament in calling Sunday the Lord’s Day (Spanish Domingo). But Portuguese and Hebrew are exceptions: in both languages Monday through Friday are called “second day” through “sixth day,” and Saturday is called “Sabbath day”. But Sunday is called “first day” in Hebrew, and “the Lord’s Day” In Portuguese, like the other Romance languages.

[@sanjoydey1030]

Greek learnt the seven days rule from Indians during the invasion of Alexander. The original book that describes the rule and naming of seven days are ancient Indian astronomical book like SuryaSiddhanta and Srimad Bhagavatam. No other astrological book provided such elaborated logic for making 7 days in a week and naming them after a planet or star.

[@vaibhavsaxena1084]

The Europeans think everything started with them when the fact is they didn’t even know decimals to accurately depict length of day month and year.

[@daniellogan-scott5968]

Something not addressed is syncretism. Ancient peoples encountering other cultures were quick to notice similar deities, largely due to universal human archetypes. For them, a similar foreign deity was a manifestation of their deity and not a separate entity. In his book Germania, Tacitus wrote that the Germans worshiped Mercury as their chief god. An analysis of Odin does reveal that he is similar to Hermes/Mercury. It is also worth noting that the days of the week in ancient Greek follow the same format and it is more likely that this inspired the Romans. These are the days of Helios, Selene, Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Kronos. As a side note, there is a Greek myth about syncretism. When Typhon attacked Olympus, all the Divines, except Zeus and Athena, fled to Egypt in animal forms. These animal forms equate to the Egyptian gods. For example, Artemis took the form of a cat thus linking her to Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess.

[@neillamontiii2911]

How can Babylon be earlier than "In the beginning"????

[@mirpopolos6209]

"In the beginning" was written while the Jews were in Babylon,

[@timsmith2525]

@@mirpopolos6209 Moses wrote Genesis after the exodus from Egypt. In it, he is describing something that happened much earlier. What we now call the Old Testament was canonized around the time of the Babylonian captivity.

[@mirpopolos6209]

@@timsmith2525 Do you really think it was written by Moses? Anyway, it was revised in Babylon. I forget why you are telling me this. What is your point exactly ?

[@timsmith2525]

@@mirpopolos6209 Yes. I am correcting the false statement that you made. No, it wasn't. Huh? My point is to correct the myth that you are propagating.

[@mirpopolos6209]

@@timsmith2525 What myth ? You Americans are so ignorant. European scholars realised in the 18th century that Genesis was written by at least three different people, for starters. You would never be able to prove that one of them was Moses.

[@hanswust6972]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing your enlightening work.

[@robertholt6444]

Again another great video and I learned something new. I'm sure your channel will keep growing.

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

In Russuan, the first day of the week is Monday or понедельник (roughly, pu-ne-del-nik) - essentially 'the day after the day of not working.' Then вторник (f-tor-nik), or 'the second day.' Then среда (s-re-da), or 'the middle day.' Четверг (chit-ver-k), or 'fourth day.' Пятница (p-yat-nitz-a), 'fifth day.' Cуббота (su-bor-ta), from 'sabbath.' And finally воскресенье (vas-kri-sen-ya), which means 'recovery or get well day.' In older Russian it was was неделя (no work day), although that word now means 'week' but before that седмица, 'seven days,' was the word for a week. Unlike English, Russian days if the week only have a capital letter ✉️ fbthey are at the start if a sentance.

[@gotzvonberlichingen6494]

This is very good high iq visuals of elementary subject matter , but I would have liked them to go more in depth about like why one day is Thursday and not Monday, yeah I get where the names came from but why in that order ? Why isn’t Wednesday the day before Friday?

[@redpill6201]

Saturn's-Day = The Mineral Age (Tin Man in "Wizard of OZ" Theosophy). OZ =77 in Gematria. Saturn, Satan, Santa, Kronos, Old Father Time, Death. Sun-Day = The Vegetable Age (Scarecrow). Moon-Day = The Animal Age (Lion). That is why those three days are apparently in that order, not sure about the rest. You might be interested in my long reply on the top "pinned thread" as well.

[@georgegonzalez-rivas3787]

I'm troubled by your chronology -- the Babylonians may be a little late to have influenced Genesis. They were preceded by the Sumerians and the Akkadians and several off-shoots. In fact, the Babylonians are explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament (moving finger and all that) suggesting that they're more parallel than predecessor.

[@hannabaal150]

Belshazzar was a Neo-Babylonian who lived in the 6th century BCE, 1400 years after Babylon was founded. I don't find his chronology any more troubling than yours.

[@jedgar63]

I had never thought of the seven day lunar cycle, but that would seem to be easier for the ancients to notice than the seven "wanderers". That a couple of constellations have seven stars, not most of them, makes that being the original source doubtful.

[@DoreenBellDotan]

Very good channel. Very informative. Thank you for your work. It is because the Rabbis returned to Babylon and adopted Babylonian astrology that we have a Shabbat that is one day out of seven and not an eternal Shabbat, as God intended.

[@rkozakand]

After doing some research, it is clear that the Babylonians did NOT have a 7 day week. True, the 7th, 14th and 21st days of the month had some significance, but so did other days. Also after the 21st, The cycle was broken until the next month started. So there was NOT an independent 7 day cycle in their calender. That started with the Jewish Calender. It is possible that the Jewish Sabbath was inspired in part by Babylonian practices, but they were the first ones to use the 7 day week. The Romans, Greeks, and others commented on this as one of the Jewish peculiarities, and they thought that the idea of resting every 7 days was completely absurd. The concept of the week was spread by Christianity, and later, Islam. This is when the 7 days were named after the planets, in the Christian era, by Christians. Noone in the pre Christian era used a 7 day week except the Jews.

[@Malfurionxtc]

Exactly... And roman-christians (after emperor Constantine) accepted it, but changed it to Sunday to mark the end of the week/rest day from Sabbath day/Saturday, trying to still keep the old believes (Sunday representing god of sun) and mixing with new religion that came: Christianity, so it will be easier for people to accept it (cause it was huge change for the romans going from having multiple gods to having just 1), shifting the 7th day to be Sunday. Confirmation of this can be found in some Catholic scripts that they still brag about the feat to display their "power" as a church, by saying (and I quote) "perhaps the boldest things, the most revolutionary change the church ever did happened in the first century. The Holy Day, The Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures (Bible) " that statement can be found in Saint Catherine Catholic Church Sentinel, May 21, 1995.

[@musar03580]

@@Malfurionxtc I think you'll find that Christians have always regarded Sunday as the first day of the week, not the last. The fact that Sunday supplanted Saturday as the holy day did not make it the last day. Sunday, the first day of the week, represented a new beginning, a fitting picture of the Resurrection and the day on which Christ rose from the dead.

[@Malfurionxtc]

@@musar03580 therefore ignoring the God's third (not 8th,not 9th,but 3rd) commandment "remember to keep *HOLY* the Sabbath day" , without any biblical script/passage that allows that change. I say Good Game romans, good game. Those are some balls of steel. Ps: that change didnt came in time of Christ, neither Christ said anything that allows the change of Sabbath day, neither happened soon after it, as a direct cause of Christ's resurrecton, but when Constantine introduced Christianity to the Roman people. Who already had Sunday as 7th they... They where playing a bit in the "gray area" at first "yea sure, Sabbath should be holy BUT also Sunday" and eventually, "you cant serve 2 masters" and if ended up as Sunday. That change didnt happened over night tho.

[@musar03580]

@@Malfurionxtc Yes, I was not suggesting that Sunday is a legitimate sabbath. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week, Saturday. I was only pointing out that Sunday has always been reckoned the first day of the week in traditional Judeo-Christian thinking.

[@farmergiles1065]

@@Malfurionxtc Most of the first Christians were originally Jews; both Jews and Christians considered Sunday as the first day of the week, as they still do. Likewise, Saturday was always the last day of the week (the 7th). Jews called it the Sabbath, keeping it as a day of rest, and also as a holy day, both together. Roman Catholic and Orthodox have always, and still do, affirm Saturday as the Sabbath. But historically, in Christianity, the Sabbath, even the whole week, took on additional significance. Sabbath continues as the day of rest, but the entire week, every day, is to be kept holy, in work or in rest. Sunday is the day of Christ's Resurrection, and the remembrance of that event has always been pre-eminent among all within Christianity. The celebration of communion and the gathering of Christians for worship is central. This can be done on any day of the week, but it should be done at least once a week, and then most fittingly on the day of the Resurrection, Sunday. For this reason, Protestants have often given it the name "the Lord's Day". It does not supplant the Sabbath, though, for every day is holy, the Sabbath as well. As this video described, the English name "Sunday", like the other names of the week, were given for various pagan gods of varying locations. Those names are unrelated to the God of Christianity. Christ has always been known to Christians as the "Light of the World", the enlightenment of souls. The physical sun gives light in particles, a part of the universe we live in. Early on, Christians saw how that could be symbolic of Christ, but never has there been any confusion between them. There is no worship of the sun in Christianity, just worship of the Son of God, the Creator of All, including the sun. God's works are marvellous, and the pagans, not knowing Christ, can be recognized as seeing that also even though not understanding it well.

[@astrohari]

7 days week existed in India. Weekday of Year change determines year lord, month change the month lord, weekday the weekdaylord, and hora (planetary hour) that run in the order of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, etc. concludes with Moon. One cycle has 7 days, after 3 cycles the 4th planet aligns with next sunrise. See Hora chart in Panchang.

[@MaxHohenstaufen]

The week lasts 7 days bc each moon phase lasts roughly 7 days. The end.

[@yanina.korolko]

The name Tuesday derives from the Old English Tiwesdæg and literally means "Tiw's Day". Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Old Norse. *Tîwaz derives from the Proto-Indo-European base *dei-, *deyā-, *dīdyā-, meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as "deity". The German Dienstag and Dutch dinsdag are derived from the Germanic custom of the thing, as Tiw / Týr also had a strong connection to the thing. The Latin name dies Martis ("day of Mars") is equivalent to the Greek ἡμέρα Ἄρεως (hēméra Áreōs, "day of Ares"). In most languages with Latin origins (Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Galician, Sardinian, Corsican, but not Portuguese), the day is named after Mars, the Roman parallel of the Ancient Greek Ares (Ἄρης). In some Slavic languages the word Tuesday originated from Old Church Slavonic word въторъ meaning "the second". Bulgarian and Russian Вторник (Vtornik) (Serbian: уторак utorak) is derived from the Bulgarian and Russian adjective for 'second' - Втори (Vtori) or Второй (Vtoroi).

[@exoplanet11]

Slight error at 5:45. The Babylonians had the lunar cycles mapped out exquisitely. They knew that after 223 lunations the exact conditions repeat, creating an identical eclipse, if there was an eclipse on the first day of this 18 year cycle. Look up Saros. They also probably inspired Meton of Athens, who calculated the similar Metonic cycle. It is still hard to divide the lunar synodic period (29.5 days) evenly. 28/4 = 7 is close... only off by 1.5 days.

[@sethflores1680]

The weekly cycle composing of seven literal days was long before the Babylonians. As a matter of fact it was long before the the peoples of the earth were devided into there separate kingdoms and tribes. The ancients already knew that the number seven held a special significance. If I'm not mistaken, I believe a discovery was made in a cave some years ago of a shrine built by a stone age culture which had no connections to the Babylonians. The researchers established that the builders of the shrine held the number seven of special significance. Moreover, as I mentioned earlier that the sacredness of seven by the ancients was long before the establishment of nations or kingdoms. According to the Bible, Noah also must have had a concept of the seven day cycle. (Note: all nations of the earth stemmed from Noah biblically) For the Bible mentions that Noah waited another seven days (a week) before he sent forth the dove. On a side note, the latest archaeological news of the research on Noah's ark is very exciting indeed. Information on the latest research can easily be Googled or attain on the internet. The new discoveries concerning this work appears to prove the authenticity of the biblical narrative.

[@nunyabidness117]

The week is 7 days long because that's how frequently payday rolls

[@kiratdosanjh3772]

Sunday is for worship sun Monday is for worship moon Tuesday is for worship mars Wednesday is for worship mercury Thursday is for worship Jupiter Friday is for worship venus Saturday is for worship satrun

[@showmikalam8979]

where is uranus neptune and pluto?

[@kiratdosanjh3772]

Showmik Alam vedic astrology only count planets till satrun

[@simonruszczak5563]

Venus worship (goddess Ishtar, Is) evolved into the Islamic religion ("Is" = Ishtar). Saturn worship (god Elyon, El) evolved into Judaism. Sun worship (god Mithra, Ra) evolved into son worship (Christianity). And each of the 3 religions still have their respective same day of worshipping, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Israel = Is + Ra + El = Venus, Sun, and Saturn worship

[@simonruszczak5563]

@@showmikalam8979 See my main comment.

[@kiratdosanjh3772]

Simon Ruszczak shukra(venus) is represented by white colour it represents white blood cells in body,sexual pleasures in life etc Satrun colour is black it judge your bad and good karm and reward and punishes accordingly Sun colour is safron it represent your backbone, father in one’s life and also goverment Venus and satrun are friend plantes but they are not friend with sun as per say

[@nylehotaling675]

A Book of Days, which works perfectly well, with some attributions in I Ching format. First Day, Azebulejube, planet Serapis (called Sedna), Direction North; Trigram T’ui, Hxgrm Moulting (49). Weekend or Sabbath, next but not an actual Day of 7, planet Cecefef, trigram, Ken or Mountain, Hxgrm Yenh (or Decrease) 41. Next, the solar Day, Afetefebeqel, planet Jupiter, Direction East, trigram Sunh, hxgrm Growth (or Increase) 42. Peri, the lunar Day, direction SE, planets Mercury, Uranhus and J’zuko; trigram K’un, hxgrm Grace or Gratitude (Peace) 11. Hedejec, planet Saturn, Direction South, trigram Chen, hxgrm Duration, 32. Cimeb, planet Pluto, Direction SW, trigram, K’an, hxgrm Idling or Idylling (Abysmal). 29. Sefefeh, planets Uethetexwihevej (Neptune), Vumefeqa (formerly, Venus) or Urmoguy, and Uj’tevene (P’zaiih, formerly Aphrodite), Direction West, trigram Chien, hxgrm Hankering 12 (classically Standstill). Weqpef, planets Odepewypei, Ceres, Hydae (called Chiron popularly), Direction NW, trigram Li, hxgrm New Experiences (Wanderer) 56. These are the esoteric planets, tradition is to cite planets more of the Primal or Ante-Primal scale- Azebulejube Urmoguy, Uj’tevene, Uethetexwihevej (called Neptune); Sabbath Pluto, Solar day Odepewypei and Pluto; Peri Lunar (Old Aeon, Neptune too); Hedejec Ares (a former planet); Cimeb Mercury (Uranhus and J’zuko too), Sefefeh Jupiter; Weqpef Saturn. For a single day time period, esoteric scale is the most meaningful. With the New Aeon, best is to interchange Azebulejube and Weqpef; also, although this year the synchronization aside from that is correct, next year it will be one day off, the year after that two off, etc…. Every year the week calendar should be reset to Azebulejube at First Day of Aries (same as 1st Day Nuin in the Celtic solar calendar), Umkethexgeq 10th by the calendar used.

[@rkozakand]

This is very off base and misleading. What evidence do you have that the Babylonians [who were part of the Akkadians, not their successors] had a 7 day week? You make it sound as if the Greeks gave the 7 day week to the Romans, but this is untrue. The Romans did not have anything resembling the week until after they had adopted Christianity, ditto the Greeks, and also everyone else. In antiquity, the Jews were the only ones who had a 7 day week, because of the Sabbath. NOT the Greeks, NOT the Romans. Christians, who also observe a sabbath, kept the 7 day week, and it spread around the world with Christianity, and later Islam, which also observed the 7 day week as they grew out of the same Abrahamic tradition.

[@ericowens964]

Exactly! Thanks for saying it before I typed it all.

[@galenwest9449]

Nice job making stuff up. There is no shred of evidence for anything that you just wrote.

[@nasirafsar5132]

In Arabic the days or "yaom" are named mainly after numbers Yaom al ahad= First day = Sunday Y al ithnain= Second day Y al tulata= Third day Y al arba'a= Fourth day Y al khamis= Fifth day Y al juma= congregation day Y al sabat= Seventh day = Saturday

[@paulohare4233]

im not a bible/god believer but when YOU quoted the bible having 6 days of creation and then on the 7th day god rested you then said that babylon predated this - how can you predate in the beginning god created the haevens and the earth lol?

[@milic5068]

predated the bible, not the creation... meaning the 7 day week practice existed even before the bibile was written

[@justleon721]

@@milic5068 Before it was written, sure. But the story also originated long before it was written. We have no way of knowing how long ago it actually began to be told.

[@freshbakedclips4659]

I think it's more intuitive to change the date every sunset. That would mean 12 would start at 6 in the evening. In other words, shifting the clock reading 6 hours back makes more sense, therefore new date would start every sunset (currently 6PM).

[@LUCKYMASON1]

Your ask is so close to the actual calculation of time system. The clocks start from the sunrise each day. The British imposed on the world a useless time measurement that has no significant at all! And so did they to the 0 degree longitude too moving it from India to Greenwich only to satisfy their ego.

[@sheldonweinles1072]

The Israelites and present-day Jews indeed have a nightfall to nightfall day.

[@freshbakedclips4659]

@@sheldonweinles1072 As a Seventh-day Adventist, we do share this same sentiment towards the Jews. It would be better if clocks start at sunset. 12 hour night and 12 hour day, even more intuitive.

[@jaishkhan7442]

The Hijri Muslim Calendar follows that

[@ScoundrelsDnD]

How many of these videos start with a long version of “if you’re a Christian, you’re wrong.”

[@charlottenilsson3820]

Scandinavian languages have same name as the English, except Saturday, which is lördag in Swedish. I think it means washing or cleaning. The week are måndag, tisdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lördag, söndag

[@josephm2521]

how can Babylon be before the creation?????????

[@simonruszczak5563]

"Babylon" means baby lion (Baby + Lon) "London" means lion roaring (was Londin, Lon + Din) Why did they choose that name? Mithra god has the head of a lion. The founders of London (Babylon rebuilt) were Mithra worshippers. The lion and lamb = Mithra and Jesus (both the same Sun god) The lion (Mithra) is the star constellation Leo. The lamb (Jesus) is the star constellation Aries.

[@dpainter1526]

@@simonruszczak5563 Jesus and Mithra are Not the same. Jesus is the SON of God, not "sun." The New Testament was written in Greek, not English, so "son" = "gios," "sun = "hilios". Two different words. Enough with the English punning!

[@Brad-gk9jd]

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

[@theobolt250]

As a good Christian I propose to abolish the week! Get rid of it! As it is steeped in heathen idolatry, astrology and superstition! 😁😜

[@astraeusgodofthestars676]

Nah too late mate, I've been practicing planetary devotion since 2020 and my life has been full of meaning and sense. I'm also studying in a Hellenistic Astrology course right now and my devotion to the planetary deities grew even more. Heck, even the Bible talks about astrology mate, just look at the magi visiting the baby Jesus by following the star (which was a Saturn-Jupiter conjunction at that time) lol. Plus reading astrological occult books like Picatrix and Three Books of Occult Philosophy will help you understand the world around you. Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Orphism, Bhagavad Ghita and other pre-Christian philosophies and religion make more sense than the Abrahamic monotheistic religion today (and why people are becoming more atheistic materialistic in today's day and age).

[@theobolt250]

@@astraeusgodofthestars676 Wow! That's impressive! I'm in awe (a bit anyways 😉). I am not a total stranger to those studies, so I know first hand how comprehensive and sometimes hard to grasp this is. Of course my first comment was in jest, kinda parody on bible thumpers. But, on that matter, are you also (still?) a Christian? If so, what denomination? Succes with your studies.

[@theobolt250]

@@astraeusgodofthestars676 One more thing, I agree that the old polytheistic religions make more sense, because they are closer to nature and have a way more direct approach to nature and its principles. But... monotheism has an advantage, a philosophical one; mono causality. One single cause from which everything stems. To me that sits very well with one almighty creator. But, that's my personal opinion. FYI I was a christian. Now... I don't know... there is some kind of divine, soullike principle, I grant you that... but God? Gods for that matter? I just don't know.

[@adolphromero7493]

@@astraeusgodofthestars676 you poor thing

[@adolphromero7493]

@@astraeusgodofthestars676 Did you miss it the word of God has proven itself Israel is on the map must be the last days 😉