English Calendar. What can names of week days and months tell us 1

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“Calendar” - “a deb t book”. The first days were called the “Calends”.

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The modern word “Calendar” means a printed or electronic publication that looks like a table, a list or a book and contains a serial enumeration of days of the year.

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Monday came from the word “Moon” and became know as the day of the moon.

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Tuesday was named after the Greek god Tiu who was analogous to the god Mars.

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Wednesday came from the god Woder . This god was a tall, thin old man dressed in a black cloak. Ye became famous after the creation of runic alphabet. That fact connected him with Mercury- patron god of writing and speaking speech.

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In European language Thursday descended from the god Jupiter, but in Germanic countries Thursday was named after the god Tor, the son of Auden.

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Friday was named after the goddess of love and war, Freya, or from the Roman goddess Venus.

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Saturday came from the name of Saturn.

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Sunday is the day of the Sun, because it comes from the word “Sun”.

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January is the first month of a new year. It was named after of the Roman god Yanus who was the god of time, doors and gates.

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February has always been the coldest month of the year, Slavs called February as “Fierce”, but in truth February was named after Februus the god of the kingdom of darkness.

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March, the first spring month, was named after the Roman god of wars Mars, but Mars was not only the god of wars, but also a god of cultivators and agricultural workers.

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April was named after the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite. During month everything blossoms, spring mood appears.

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May is the warmest moans of spring, which was named after the Roman goddess Maia, who personified the fertile ground and the efflorescent nature.

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June, the first summer month, was named after the famous Roman godde s s Juno, who was the wife of Jupiter, and was the goddess of fertility, rain and marriage.

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July, the hottest summer month, was named not of the god, or goddess, but after the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar. Before that July was called “ Quintilius ” which meant the fifth. It was the fifth, because the year began not from January, but from March.

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August- name of this month, also came from the famous Roman Emperor Octavius August. Before that month was called “ Sextile , which meant “Sixth”.

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The name of September came from the word ” Septem ”, which meant “seven”. October came from the Latin number “ Octo ”, which meant “eight”. Slaves called this month as “Fall of the leaves ”. November has the root of “ Novem ” which was translated as “Ninth ”. December is the first winter month and the last month outgoing year, but, it was named after its ordinal number “ Desem ”.