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Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => English => Topic started by: lima_diu on February 15, 2011, 11:48:51 AM
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The days of the week come from the Names of mythical figures,
so the first letter of each day must be a CAPITAL letter.
Days of the Week:
Monday = associated with the Moon
Tuesday = from the god Tiw, associated with Mars
Wednesday = from Germanic god Odin
Thursday = from Germanic god of thunder Thor
Friday = from Germanic goddess Frigga associated with Venus
Saturday = associated with Saturn
Sunday = associated with the Sun
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The names we use for each of the 12 months of the year have come down to us from the days of the ancient Romans.
In early Roman times, March was the first month of the year, and February was the last. January didn’t become the first month of the year until 153 B.C.
March was named after Mars, the Roman god of war.
April comes from a word that meant “second,†since it was once the second month of the year.
May was named after Maia, an earth goddess.
June was named after Juno, the queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage.
July was named after Julius Caesar. Before Caesar’s time, it was called Quintilis, or the fifth month.
August was named after Augustus Caesar. Before that, it was called Sextilis, or the sixth month.
September means seventh month,
October means eighth,
November means ninth,
December means tenth.
January was named after Janus, the god of doors and of beginnings and endings.
February was named after februa, a Roman festival held in the middle of that month.
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Here are the names of the moon according to Celtic lore.
January: Quite Moon
February: Moon of Ice
March: Moon of Winds
April: Growing Moon
May: Bright Moon
June: Moon of Horses
July: Moon of Claiming
August: Dispute Moon
September: Singing Moon
October: Harvest Moon
November: Dark Moon
December: Cold Moon
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Our calendar comes from the ancient Romans, and is based on the sun. But before the Romans began to use their solar calendar, they used a lunar calendar, based on the moon.
A real month is the time it takes the moon to go around the earth, about 29.5 days. So the Romans gave their months 29 or 30 days. But their 12 months added up to only 354 days, so they had to add a short month of 11 days to the year from time to time.
During Julius Caesar’s reign, the Romans began to use a solar calendar instead of a lunar calendar. The Romans took the extra 11 days in the solar year and divided them up among the other months, making the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh months each 31 days long. Then they took a day away from February, so that the 12 months contained exactly 365 days.
Some historians think that Augustus Caesar took a day from September and added it to August, the month named after Augustus, and also moved a day from November to December.
That’s why August and December now have 31 days, and September and November have 30. But there’s no proof that this is the way it really happened.
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Thank you lima mam & shamim sir for your informative explanation of every days & month............
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Every days and months and important for us and now by reading the post we can know the importance and meaning of the days and months. Thanks Lima Mam and Shamim Sir.
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I've read the information with a great interest.