Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)

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Bernie Adalem (badalem@tetherless.net) wrote:
:
: Actually Gilbert, most of them are names of ancient mythological
: gods and goddesses of the germanic/celtic/latin world, which was
: very confused because they tried to identify each others' deities
: with their own based on attributes.
:
: Sun and Moon were deities, as were
: Tues / german Dienster
: Wednes / which planet was that again?
: Thurs (Thor)/ Donner
: Freya
: Saturn
:

Wednesday comes from Wotan, not a planet.

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