Strong Astrology Defines ‘week’ in All Languages

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STRONG ASTROLOGY DEFINES WEEK IN ALL LANGUAGES

Without why? What? And how? Our lives would be unimaginative, dull andpassive like inanimate objects.It is not only in questioning but exploring to seek the answers for these why?What? And how? Whatever source they emanate from and in all possible ways, iswhat educates and emancipates mankind.In this process of enquiry, we must steer clear of impenetrable jargons, lukewarmsea of half-baked theories, the illusion that life and its meanings and problemscan be reduced to some specific straight-jacket dogma, and delusions of fetteringaxiomatic certitudes like something is said to be so and therefore, it is so; and awhole lot of other such aspects of the culture of escapism, and indifference andlies.

Of these ubiquitous trinity of why? What? and how?

Let me take up only why here. Why is a magical word. Small children use it tokeep their parents talking on and on without end. Unfortunately, it is not only tokeep their parents talking but also out of inquisitiveness. Inquisitiveness is whatproduces a wide range of characters starting from an eavesdropper, a scandalmonger or a clandestine voyeur or a gossip giant or a spiritual mediator or asocial inventor, etc. So the type of reply a parent gives to a childs enquiry of awhy? (out of inquisitiveness) will produce such a deep impression that, thechilds mind would start using the question why to get a particular expectedanswer and also produce any of the above referred characters depending uponthe parents reply.

Very often parents tend to give clever replies like a tourist guide who, when once,a lady asked him How a row of fine rock formation were piled up, said theyhave been piled up here by the glaciers. When she anxiously asked him Whereare the glaciers? he replied Madam, they have gone back to get some morerocks. Such replies are often the result of ignorance, half-knowledge orimpatience or all of these.

I, for one, would rather like to go to the maximum extent possible to find the

answer for all the whys that arise in me. Thus I was haunted by two whys. One,why in all the languages from the very, ancient ones, which originated severalhundred years back to the latest ones the days of the week are named after theplanets, the sun and moon? And two, how come that in all these languages they(the days) follow the same sequence, i.e. Sunday followed by Monday, Tuesday,and so on.

It is obvious that the various languages which have evolved in different periods
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and in different places could not have been manipulated by any vested interestgroup. In fact the greatest and most unique aspect about languages is that theyhave been stronger than everything, including we human beings, by virtue of notsuccumbing to any ideologically inspired homogenization mania. Thats whywords carry with them or contain in them either a truth, a concept, a belief, a

social system, a theory etc., in short, they carry the best imprint of life in thisuniverse than any account of history or scriptural claims. This is the reason thatbesides their semantic influence languages also have their own self- justificationand it is for this reason I am always driven by an impulse to get to the bottom ofthings to understand by unraveling the mystery of certain words.

Thus, even in this present enquiry, as a polyglot, I am proceeding to analyze thequestion, by studying the words that form part of the question.

1. Languages - its greatness2. Day - its etymology, origin and duration.3. Week - its duration why only seven days? and why not 5 days or 10 days?4. Names of planets, basic facts about planets and their name forthe days.5. The mystery of same sequence of days in all languages.

Having explained in brief what languages means in a wider perspective, I amproceeding to the other four aspects.

The word day in English and taq in German are etymologically from the Indo-European, dhegh which also gave the Sanskirit dah burn and nidaqha heatand this leads us to infer that the word day denotes the time when the sunlightis hot or time of burning heat.

The origin of day and its duration:-Time, we all know, is not linear but cyclic, an unending repetition of events, andthough it is infinite, Human beings intelligence felt the need and found therhythms to break time into convenient periods to measure and give temporalmeaning to activities. Thus when the human mind was observing nature, the

circadian (circa dien LATIN almost 24 hours ) cycle came to light and the lengthof the day was determined by the period taken by the earth to spin once aroundits axis.

So the origin and duration of the day is based on earths spin, still no day isnamed after the earth. They are named only after the planets, the Sun and theMoon, because of their influence astrologically on earth. So whatever the criticsof the science of astrology say still it has left an indeliable mark in the names of


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the days of the week. Influence of astrology is so strong that even the GuinnessBook of Poisonous quotations says Anybody who believes in astrology must havebeen born under the wrong sign.

Week- Its etimology and duration:-

Week- This word has evolved from a prehistoric Indo-European wikon whichgave the German woche from the base wik meaning Bend or turn or changeprobably denoting change with specific reference to change of phase of the moon.

What would have gone into deciding the duration of the week. The best possibleexplanation is traditional belief in septenary (seven) factor and observation whichconfirms and strengthens this traditional belief.

Septenary factor is so strong that in spite of the millions of sins [ we all know arebeing committed everywhere] the basic sins are seven sins. This apart, in realityarent basic colours unfolded by the spectroscope seven; the basic music notesseven; basic wonders of the world seven; basic senses of man seven; (besides thefive senses, the mind and the intellect included) the seven holes in the face twoeyes, two ears, two nostrils and one mouth which allow the sevenadhyatmapranas (vital airs) to the soul within,the seven endocrine glands (glands whose secretions do not pass through anyducts but pour directly into the bloodstream as it circulates through the glands the pineal, the gonads);the seven corresponding chakras or plexus (network in Hindu esotericism).

Dr. Laycock (Lancet 1842-43) writing on the periodicity of vital phenomenarecords. The facts I have briefly glanced at are general facts, and cannot happen

day after day in so many millions of animals of every kind from the larva or ovumof a minute insect up to a man, at definite periods , from a mere chance orcoincidence I think it is impossible to come to any less general conclusion,than this, that in animals, changes occur every three and a half, seven, fourteen ,twenty one or twenty eight days or at some definite number of weeks or septenarycycles and whatever type the fever may exhibit there will be a paroxysm on theseventh day, the fourteenth will be remarkable as the day of amendment (eithercure or death taking place !)

The cyclothymic rhythm is said to alternate at 35 days intervals so that ones

emotions vary in a curve that rises to a peak every 5 weeks resulting in alternatingperiods of depression and exhilaration .Every 42 days, there appears to be anintellectual rhythm affecting ones grasp of practical things, concentration andmemory. Traditionally it was believed that every seven years the human beingpassed through certain life phases like till 7 a child, attends puberty at 14 , is anadult at 21, house holder at 28, acquires proficiency in his profession at 35, apublic figure at 42 and ready for the end by 63 or 70 etc.


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Well then it is only normal that tradition chose seven days for the week, probablyon the undocumented observation of bio and astrobiotic rhythms.

In fact the French Revolutionists, tried to rid the astrological connotations ofseven day week and came up with a convenient metric system of the New

Revolutionary Calendar and it was introduced by official decree on 24thNovember 1793 wherein each month was divided into three (3) 10 day cyclescalled decades, with the names of ten days as primidi, durdi, tridi, quartidi,quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi, decadi. And it was the practical Napoleanwho officially reinstated the seven day week in September, 1805 after officiallyrecognizing the failure of decades.

Then Stalin tried a five-day week formula with four days work and one day rest,wherein the rest days were staggered throughout the population to ensure thatfactory production went uninterrupted and it was labeled as uninterruptedproduction week and introduced in 1929 but withdrawn by 1931 and Stalin hadto revert to the 7 day week.

Can anyone stifle popular beliefs and astrology?

Unfortunately, there is pseudo-intellectual tendency among humanity at large tomock at all traditional beliefs and ancient sciences because of human beingsinadequate tools of empirical verifiability.

But instead if we make an unbiased observation into many traditional beliefs,then we can know how our ancestors with very limited equipments and evenwithout any gadget have managed to make some far-reaching observations. There

are evidences of incised reindeer bones dating back some 20 to 21 thousand yearswherein theCro-Magnon humans tabulated the phases of the moon, a pointer to ourancestors science of astrobiology. All beliefs to have wider following andacceptability were sugar coated with religious and ritualistic dos and donts, evenas we need at present, some political backing or populist ideology or a corporatesponsorship for anything to have wider following and acceptability.

So whether the astronomers find any cause to believe in the links of planets andhuman beings; whatever various religions try to do (this aspect we shall discussin the following passages); however much political pressures have tried to subdue

it , the traditional belief in septenary (seven) factor and astrology have left anindelible imprint on humanity by ensuring that all over the world the days of theweek are seven and they (days) are named after the planets and in a specificsequence. Now we need to find out how and why it is so.

Brief astronomical facts about the planets, the sun and moon:

Jupiter-the largest planet fifth in order from sun-mean distance from the sun is


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483,000,000 miles.

Saturn -the second largest planet sixth in order from sun, mean distance fromthe sun ,mean distance from the sun is 886,000,000 miles.

Venus -the second in order from the sun-mean distance from the sun is67,000,000 miles.

Mars -the fourth in order from the sun- mean distance from the sun is142,000,000 miles.

Mercury -the nearest planet to the sun and the mean distance from the sun is36,000,000 miles.

Moon -the earths natural satellite orbiting the earth at a mean distance of238,857 miles.

Sun -the star that is the central body of the solar system and its mean distancefrom the earth is about 73,000,000 miles.

From this information, it is clear that the order of the days have not been basedon any of these astronomical factors like size, mean distance from the sun orearth. Then, what possibly influenced the sequence of the days?

In the realm of languages, the word for the days in all Indian languages are basedon Sun, moon and five major planets- i.e. Ravi or Surya (Sun) , Soma or Chandra

(Moon), Mangala or Kuja or Angaraha (Mars), Budha (Mercury), Guru orBrahaspati (Jupiter), Sukra (Venus), Sani (Saturn) and in some other majorlanguages that I know it is:

Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus SaturnLatin Dies solis Dies Lunae Dies Martis Dies Merculi Dies Jovis Dies Veneris DiesSaturniEnglish Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

French Dimanche Lundi Mardi Mercredi Jeudi Vendredi SamediGerman Sonntag Montag Dienstag DonneStag Frietag

Some words for some of the days have been underlined. These do not give anyreference to the planets why? And this is where I decided to read the history andreligious influences behind them.


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First, I went through the Hebrew versions. In fact, for Hebrew, YAHWEN wasengaged in creation for 6 days and then rested on the seventh. The word Sabbath is derived from Shabatath meaning to cease from work and theHebrew name for Saturn is interestingly shabati. Probably Saturday was the firstday of the week. We shall discuss this when we discuss how astrology has taken

the most relevant astronomical factor and influenced the sequence for days andhow?

Well the underlined names are the result of what Christianity tried to do; itwanted the days of the week to be dissociated from their pagan origins. In fact thefirst day of the week was named by early Christians as The Lords Day. Latintranslates this as Die Dominicia; French retain it as Dimanche ; in Russian,Sunday is Resurrection Day (VOSKRESENIE).

Tuesday:- from Tiu or Tiy or Tyr in Scandinavian mythology son of Odin andidentified ultimately with the German Zeus, Latin Deus and Sanskirit Devas.

Wednesday:- from Anglo-saxon Wodens day or Scandinavian Odins day-theGod of Wisdom, poetry and agriculture.

Thursday:- the day of God Thur- God of thunder and the French call it Jeudithat is Joves Day. Both Jove and Thor were Gods of thunder and formerlyThursday was sometimes called Thunder Day.

Friday:-from Freya- Goddess of peace and crops.Saturday:-from Saturn-the Roman deity identified with Greek Kronos (time).

Whatever and however much pressure has been put to change the names of days

from tht of planets, yet there is a particular astrological and astronomical factorthat has ensured the specific sequence of days . So we need to know what it is andhow it is so?

We are living beings on earth. So everything is connected with earth, thereforethe length for the day (24 hours approximate) is determined by the period takenby earth to spin once upon its axis.

Then going further into astronomy, the most important astronomical factor isthat all planets are orbiting. The speed of the planets in relation to the orbital

periods when viewed from earth are approximately in ascending order (the fasterthe movement, the shorter the orbital period) as follows:-Moon 27 daysMercury 88 daysVenus 225 daysSun 365 daysMars 687 daysJupiter 12 days


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Saturn 30 days

This has been the major factor that determined the sequence of the days. Butthen, isnt it logical that the days should be Monday followed by Wednesday,Friday etc. or the reverse in descending order as Saturday followed by Thursday,

Tuesday, etc. It is not so. Again Why?

Well, the answer is, as per the astrological doctrines of chronocracies practicedin Alexandria, each hour of the day was assigned to one of the seven planetarygods and the day was named based on the god that governed the first hour of theday. Initially it was in descending order of the orbital period and as such the firsthour of the first day was assigned to other planets in the descending order of theorbital period (Hebrew Shabtai for Saturn and Sabbath- the rest day). Thus ifwe tabulate the 24 hour period, we get Saturday followed by Sunday followed byMondday, etc. as per the following chart.

As per the Babylonian sequence of planetary days, Saturday was the first day. Thechoice of any day as the first day of the week is of course a matter of convenienceand perhaps accepted practice but the sequence is the same.
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