Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

>     So as not to spurn anyone's religion, you can go back to deriving
> their
> names from the numbers one through seven (or, you can be really daring
> and
> claim there are six or eight or ten days of the week).  However, you
> might
> inadvertantly insult someone by, say, making the world's equivalent of
> Saturday the seventh or sixth day, or whatever.  As for me, I always
> think of
> days of the week in terms of colors: Monday's blue, Tuesday's white,
> Wednesday's red, Thursday's yellow, Friday's green, Saturday's orange,
> and
> Sunday's purple.  :)
The use of colors might turn out to take on a religious meaning. In
Christianity, white would be Sunday (the Resurrection), Friday red (the
Crucifiction), Wednesday purple (one of the two days of fasting in the
Eastern Church), Saturday blue (the Jewish Sabbath), Monday green (new
week), la dee da...

In Islam, Friday might be identified with green, since it's the day of
public assembly and green represents Islam.

~ dw ~


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