https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-are-there-seven-days-in-a-week I'm willing to bet a Pope in Vatican City, Rome, wrote that God made the heavens and the Earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th because of this Roman week from 321 CE. Spoiler This also backs up another claim I have that The Holy Bible was written by people, not by God, and more likely than not, it was written by Roman people, and organised religion back in the day was the tool for controlling the masses; Now, that's not to say it wasn't based on real people, but it was written by people who needed to control a populous. What was days of the week for Jesus some 200 years earlier than the Roman week? Does anyone know or is this information lost on humanity to the ages?
The article you posted says that it's the babylonian ? Furthermore the genesis come from jews and so it's a story that existed before the birth of Jesus ?
We sure it wasn't messed with by a Roman? Or maybe the Romans used Genesis for their week? (But that seems unlikely as they had their own Gods).
Well, I suppose we would know has babylonian left us plenty of archeological artifacts. What I would see as : Babylonian invent the seven day week => a few centuries thereafter, Jews build their genesis myth on top of that => a few centuries thereafter Constantin make it official. From what I red, romans simply had no week equivalent, they just had month and days. Furthermore, it seems that it was the babylonian that considered 7 as a cursed number, then considered it was a bad idea to do something the 7th day => origin of the Sabbat thing. I can't complain, I like to have one day per week to chill.
It'll be cool to have a new day between Saturday and Sunday, making for a 3 day weekend. That would be awesome. Not quite Saturday, not quite Sunday, so Saturday will always feel like the start of something special every week (this 3 day weekend) and the day after Saturday gets to be part fun, part realisation that Sunday's tomorrow and making Sunday an even greater rest day and buffer day for getting ready for Monday and over the 3 day weekend. Let's make the 8 day week/3 day weekend/insert an extra day in between Saturday & Sunday for a 3 day weekend, a thing the 21st Century could give to humanity. There could still be 31 days to a month, 365 days to a year, but retaining the 5 day working week and adding an additional day to the weekend. What's the harm in that? Could it damage an economy somehow meaning people have to wait longer for Monday to Friday? I'm sure there's a downside to an extra day in the weekend somewhere, but I'm not seeing it.
For those who don't know, this is the basis for the names. Tue-Fri are based on Norse mythology. Moon-day Tiw's day (Tiw = Tyr) Wotan's day (Wotan = Odin) Thor's day Freya's day Saturn-day Sun-day
One of the many questions I like to ask pastors and religious folk to get their blood pressure up. Along with, if God didn't create the Sun and Moon until the 4th day, how did they know that 4 days had passed?
I seem to recall it originating with the Sumerians, who based it on phases of the moon, which was probably a common thing to do. The Aztecs had a 14 day week, which was probably similarly derived.
And how, exactly, on the third day did the vegetation and plants grow without the sun for photosynthesis?
Hard questions are unfair!! Trees are older than the Sun and the Moon and all of the stars (Genesis 1:11-19).
Your link won't load for me for some reason. Regardless, we have a seven day week because that is about how long each phase of the moon lasts and the old people used to work on a lunar calendar well before Emperor Constantine, who by the way, was a Christian.
