The Reason We Have 7 Days in a Week 

I wanna be it's president 😂

They wouldn't let him call it George, so instead they called it... Uranus? In terms of how many jokes would be made about this planet's name, it probably came out about even.

in the past, the order is as follows: Moon Venus/Mecury Mercury/Venus (not sure) Sun Mars Jupiter Saturn In Zechariah Sitchin's work, even if Earth is said to be the seventh planet, if you use our counting, the seventh planet would correspond to Saturn, which looks yellow. No wonder Zechariah Sitchin's seventh planet (Earth) is full of gold...

No I'm not ! It had the best name ! 🤔Now it's named after the president .

​@@georgedeedsnotwords2162 Ah! Didn't even think of that. Putin is also from olde latin...... 🤔 Though, I have got to admit I've never heard them call Uranus that other word.

🤣🤣🤣 I died laughing at that!

Like Classic Coke, I still consider Pluto a classic planet.

Pluto is a dwarf planet, It was not considered as a planet after 2006

Pluto: I was big enough for your mother!

Neil has a never ending war with pluto, thou shalt not speak thy name of big rock smaller than other big rocks

I teach the week days in the same way Neil does it. So from now on, here is Neil and Chuck's video, and then "I would have told you the same exact thing".

Listen to Chronicles Of Judah 144

I bet u dont show indian connection, outdates greek by many thousand years, do some research into that

Say more please

​@@jaspreet_singh_247yea no

Shows the worship of the gods they truly serve.

​@jaspreet_singh_247 Egyptian astrology is older than Greek wheel but the Greek perfected it by understanding the ages,today Greek astrology is accurate I'm pisces

Ah, that what the Weekend means. (Weak end) 😂😂😂

​@@salamander337 If you have a weak end, you can always take a pill for that! 😆🤣😆🤣

I like it.

😆 🤣 😂 🗣STOP IT

It also means that Monday thru Friday is a strong beginning

no

❤❤❤Pluto forever!!

Pluto, No matter what anybody says, you'll always be a prince to me 🧞‍♂️

Pluto is a planet to me no matter what anyone says.

Pluto is their just not in our system 😂

Bhai ye admi creation key time sey gyaani hai mat ched 😂

When they say Greek note it as Greek Egypt Indus all are same time and they ignore Indus because inferiority complex

Indian names so accurately match with the planets that I doubt the ideas were copied abroad. But yeah, u could be right, Indus is one one of the ancient, must be the father of all other civilization.

Any link between them and the four hunours or Temperaments. Ayurvedic?

The four humors or temperaments are related to the four element system of the previous times. Each humor/temperament is related to one of the four elements: earth, water, air and fire.

You should not bathe in lead on saturday, it is poison to the brain.

Could it be possible that each 1 of those planets makeup be the reason the planets are balanced and spaced the way they are

We come from the Land of the Ice and Snow!

Indeed, I would in fact say that this episode of StarTalk is perhaps one of the weakest so far in terms of solid evidence based argumentation. It is clear that Mr. Tyson does not know norse mythology very well with where he draws the comparisons, but then... That's not his expertise. ;)

Old norse: laugardagr "pool day" so bathing day is correct for Saturday. The same in Finnish loan word "lauantai" .

It's the same in English, other than Saturday. The same gods. Of course Wednesday is Woden's day, as you Scandinavians have this habit of dropping W from the beginning of some words...like wool = ull and in Norsk wolf = ulv. I'm guessing Norse influenced Thursday, as it's no longer the full Thunor's day, like in Dutch and German.

I have a question: why are they named in a particular sequence "Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturday"

You know he's just plagiarizing Carl Sagan, right? Man doesn't have a unique thought in his head (unless it concerns gender studies.)

what would "linggo" translate to? Cuz in spanish Sunday is "Domingo" (which i can´t understand it's correlation to Sunday, given that "sun" in spanish is "Sol"

Only if Ceres can be a planet too

When I was growing up it was a planet now I guess it's a star

@@tiptoe87 all planets are stars, but not all stars are planets, pluto is a Dwarf planet

Yes,I concur.that little cold quiet planet never hurt nobody😢

the Europeans copied India's system

I didn't know that, Thanks!

​@@yashuchiha99Actually I believe it was the Greeks that taught them that system after Alexander took over the middle east and attempted to encroach into India.

Thanks so much for this.

Yogeshavi. Thank you!

Wow! Is this coincidence or linkage. In the Akan culture of Ghana 'day' is also called 'da'. eg. Friday is known as Efiada, which means the day of Afia and we do same for all the seven

Woww! Thanks for sharing that's crazy

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Maybe it's the origin

Peak peagan critique

I asked some of my Japanese teachers how the Japanese names and Western names matched up so well but nobody knew the answer. Of course, they taught Japanese and not history but I assume that it came from the West via China at some point long ago.

Amazing can you teach me Japanese too?🙏🤟💯😎

You're close: "kin" does normally mean "gold," but in this specific case it would translate as "metal."

it's global, oldest known is in India. the names aren't arbitrary but instead calculated

@@masonheipel The Babylonians created the seven-day week named for the moving lights of the sky more than 5,000 years ago. It is such a convenient coincidence that seven divides evenly into the 28 days of the lunar cycle that the system was adopted over and over again by Eurasian cultures as it spread along trade routes.

Yes and no; it's named after Donar, the Thunderer, which is the proto-Germanic for Thor (just like how Wotan is the Germanic name for Odin, in Norway, Denmark and Sweden it's not Wednesday, it's Onsdag, directly from Oden's Dag or Odin's Day). Donar among the Germanic tribes, Thuner in the Old Frisian tribes, Thunar in Old Saxon, and then Þórr in Norse, the latter of which then became Thor (and despite the weird letters phonetically sounds very similar also).

thur is named for thor wich means thunder just like donar the dutch or GERMANIC name for thor all of witch mean Thunder so it is named for his NAME!

@@Sacremas Both Wodan or Wotan after wich Wednesday, or in dutch Woensdag is named and Odin mean Furious or Angry.. Or the Furious one.

@@mantara100 Huh, didn't know that, I figured it would be the "Wise One" (due to the rune stuff, secret stuff, spying via Hugin and Munin, etc).

@@mantara100 My friend`s cat should be called Odin lol

Portuguese is similar: 2a Feira - Monday 3a Feria - Tuesday 4a Feira - Wednesday 5a Feira - Thursday 6a Feira - Friday Sábado Saturday Domingo Sunday

acutally s solar/lunmar calender not solely a lunar calendar. By the way if you have 13 months every month has 28 with one extra incalulary day or 2 in leap year and 1 or 2 incalulary days or 1 or 2 months with 29 days. If we went to 13 month calendar th last month could have the extra day(s) keep the calendar align though out the year.it would also allow each day to haves begining of the year 21 times out of 28 years allowing every weekday to have at least 84 first i day n 99 years and e in from 1901 to 2099 you have each year have 169 times at least each day startsthe new year.

A couple corrections, expansions Shabbat doesn't come from the root for seven (shin-beth-ayin) but from the root for cease (Shin-beth-tav) The extra month, in the Torah, is only added if you cannot find enough ripened (aviv) barley in Chodesh HaAviv (The first month) in time for the Sheaf offerings during Hagh HaMatzot (Passover). The Hebrew day begins at sundown, specifically described as Beyn HaArbayin (between the evenings or muddlings) generally understood as the time between when the orb of the sun drops below the horizon and when the light of the sun has dissipated.

Islamic calendar is purely based on The Moon but has similar nomenclature: yaum as-sabt يوم السَّبْت (sabbath day) yaum al-ahad يوم الأحد (first day) yaum al-ithnayn يوم الإثنين (second day) yaum ath-thalatha' يوم الثُّلَاثاء (third day) yaum al-arba`a' يوم الأَرْبعاء (fourth day) yaum al-khamis يوم الخَمِيس (fifth day) yaum al-jum`a يوم الجُمْعَة (gathering day)(Friday)

Portuguese names of the week are similar, except for Sunday (Domingo as in Dominus Day)

What about samedi and dimonche?

@@Malik-Ibi Black Sabbath and AC/DC?

@@Malik-Ibi Samedi = Saturne Dimanche = ... in latin, Solis dies (day of the Sun) has then been replaced by dies Dominicus... and then over the centuries slowly became Dimanche. (that is why the 'di' is at the begining)

@@ge2623 yes, like the USA in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan?

@@breuschbarbare0248 Those don't count. They were for money. 😁

Marking time in lunar cycles was why Moses was so old . Divide his age by 13 and you will get his real age in years.

I don't know man, we Indians have been using them for so long and we even call them exactly what we call planets in our language.

I agree. The video explained why our seven days of the week are named what they are named but not how we got to seven days in the first place. It was more of a convergence of coincidences, where the goofy math of the ancient humans worked well with the celestial observations of the slightly less-ancient people, and then the plethora of god names we all came up with later were implemented after the fact. I doubt Babylonians bothered with god names for their week days but we will never know. Those guys seemed to be all about business and trade and probably just called them day one, day two, etc.

Thank u for the explanation ❤❤❤❤

Maybe I'm tripping here, but I'm pretty sure the reason they gave for having 7 days in a week is because there was 7 observable celestial bodies. 7:10 to the end of the video is literally titled "Why We Have Seven Days" lol

Before Zappa, we referred to Gustav Holst's composition "The Planets".

It just worries me how we present this nonsense to the general public, I’m an igbo man, igbo language is not complete, what you listed is called the four market days, which can fall into any day. Are there four days in a week or should the world adjust to four days because we are igbos? Since the igbo doesn’t have the translation yet, they spell those days according to the English sounds!

@@DIPLOMATCENTER My brother if Igbo is not complete, what effort are you making to make it complete? Who do you think that will complete those incomplete lexicon you're referring to ? It is always easy to sit and criticize without offering any tangible solution. No one is forcing the world to adopt Igbos' days of the week or coerce Igbos to accept others days of the week. The fact remains that Igbos legitimately and proudly have their days of the week which is handed over to them by our ancestors as enumerated above. If you refuse to accept it, then , you deal with it because we will continue to use it till the end of the world.

@@ikehsamuelifeanyi4925 You can imagine how weak and preposterous your argument came off, I pointed out facts that you and I know very well if you attended any igbo class. I only said we can’t continue to bring that to a global front, if you questioned who will complete the lexicons, why now stay rigid that we will live with the incomplete language till the end of age? People are working hard in that regards and doing a whole lot of translation jobs. Anyway, drag along, I actually don’t need the language to communicate on a global scale which is what I do.

Nice. It seems to mean that for Christians, Saturday is the church going day, not Sunday

@@manasavuibaubatiwale3593 for Christians, the church day is Domingo (Dominus Day, that means day of the lord). I guess that the counting was referring to the day God rested after building the world, but I am not sure about that

Chuck is getting an education whether he wants it or not. He has come a long way.

In Russian is воскресенья meaning resurrection of the Lord

dude, I literally paused it and gave Chuck all kinds of love for that one. You know he's been around some brown folk for a minute. lol

Funny that he gave Chuck grief for using a Spanish word, "Sabado" saying they're doing it in English; then wants him to name the days of the week in Spanish that correspond to planets.

Good grief. I just checked and saw that it's been 9 years already since the show went off the air. It doesn't seem that long ago. I miss watching that show every Saturday night growing up

Just to add, i think he is married to a Latina woman

He did say this is for the English language. Tell us about Portuguese please.

@@caramia4789 It's simple: Sunday: Domingo - Domenus (day of the lord); Monday: Segunda - second day; Tuesday: Terça - third day; Wednesday: Quarta - fourth day; Thursday: Quinta - fifth day; Friday: Sexta - sixth day; Saturday: Sábado - Sabath.

@@gustavofigueiredo1798 Well I was expecting it to sound like Spanish/Italian... Interesting because I was born in Armenia and in Armenian the weekdays are also following a similar format. monday erkushapti - erku 2 Tuesday erekshapti - erek 3 Wednesday chorekshapti - chors 4 Thursday hingshapti - hing 5 Friday urbat Saturday shabat Sunday kiraki Friday - Sunday, I don't know where these come from or what they mean... except Shabat that is Sabbath

@@caramia4789 Ah yes, I can see why you thought that. As I see, both Portuguese and Armenian are farther away from latin than Italian and Spanish. Interesting to know that our languages have this in common. Thanks for sharing.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@gustavofigueiredo1798 it’s almost the same in arabic sunday: ( al ahad | الاحد ) - first day monday: ( al athnayn | الاثنين ) - second w tuesday: ( al thulthaa | الثلاثاء ) - third day wednesday: ( al arbaa | الاربعاء ) - fourth day thursday: ( al khames | الخميس ) - fifth day friday: ( al jumaa | الجمعه ) - A day when people gather saturday: ( al sabat | السبت ) - day of sleep and rest

I kind of like the adding of -feast to almost every day. -Why are we celebrating? asked Piglet. -Because it Tuesday, Pooh answered. Make every day to a feast! :D

And Tyr = bull and its a badass name. Get out of here with that weak name mumbo jumbo.

Sense since

​@@greatdane131That's just a coincidence though

Tuesday in English is named after the English god Tiw, not the Norse god (though they had the same origin)

@@se6369 if it's the same origin, then it's basically the same from our perspective today. Otherwise, we could also argue that "Martes in Spanish is named after the Roman god Mars, not the Greek god Ares"... Myths evolve throughout times and societies.

Something similar happened on Iceland

I guess it was the same in Greece. You have the Day of the Lord (Domingo - Κυριακη), the second - fifth days (segunda, terça, quarta, quinta - Δευτέρα, Τρίτη, Τετάρτη, Πέμπτη), then in Greek you have the Day of Preparation for the Sabbath, Παρασκευή, because Jesus died on a Friday, then the Sabbath (sábado, Σάββατο). Originally in Greek the days beginning on Monday were called Ἡμέρα Σελήνης, the Day of Selene, the Moon goddess; Ἡμέρα Ἄρεως the Day of Ares/Mars; Ἡμέρα Ἑρμοῦ, the Day of Hermes/Mercury; Ἡμέρα Διός, the Day of Zeus/Jupiter; Ἡμέρα Ἀφροδίτης, the Day of Aphrodite/Venus; Ἡμέρα Κρόνου, the Day of Chronos/Saturn; Ἡμέρα Ἡλίου, the Day of Helios, the Sun god.

@@segueoyuri Wait... you're saying that modern Greek is one of the languages where the name of the weekdays do not carry the ancient meaning related to planets or gods, that the ancient greeks spread across the world? That's a plot twist! 😅

@@WonderingWanderer88 "you're saying that modern Greek is one of the languages where the name of the weekdays do not carry the ancient meaning related to planets or gods," Yes. "that the ancient greeks spread across the world?" ?????????????? Obviously no. "That's a plot twist!" Your strawman really is great. You can congratulate yourself now hahahah

Segunda-feira Terça-Feira Quarta-feira Quinta-feira Sexta-feira It’s just numbering the days of the week. What about feira?

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makes total sense.

Greeks learnt about Astronomy from the Indians, including the planets and name of the days. European sources attribute the nomenclature of the weekdays to the Greeks or the Babylonians. However, there is scant evidence for these claims, and the claims are mostly based on conjectures, circular logic and uninformed opinions. However Indian system is explained by the 5th century Aryabhata and the even older Surya Siddhanta which is calculated to be over 7,300 BCE. From the (Aryabhatiya, KalaKriya Pada, Verse, 16): सप्तैते होरेशा: शनैश्चराद्या यथाक्रमं शीघ्रा:| शीघ्रक्रमाच्च्तुर्था भवन्ति सूर्योदयाद् दिनपा: || Meaning - The seven Grahas beginning with Saturn, which are arranged in the order of increasing velocity, are the lords of the successive hours. The Grahas occurring fourth in the order of increasing velocity are the lords of the successive days, which are reckoned from Sunrise (in Lanka). "Grahas" did not mean "Planet", it meant an astral object that grasps another astral object (e.g. ‘Graha’ approach-ing a nakshatra (star) - a visual delusion, of course). It also means an astral body that exerts attractive force on the earth.) The lords of the twenty-four hours (with hours being measured from sunrise at Lanka) are: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, respectively, and the lords of the seven days are: Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, respectively. The lord of the day is the lord of the first hour of that day, the day being measured from sunrise. Surya Siddhanta has similar explanation (Bhugoladhyaya -78) मन्दादध: क्रमेण स्युश्चतुर्था दिवसाधिप: होरेशा सूर्यतनयादधोध: क्रमशस्तथा Starting from the Saturn downward, the fourth graha is called the lord of the day. The graha starting from the Saturn successively downwards are the lords of the hour. The only rational explanation for the nomenclature of the weekdays comes from an Indian source. No other culture provides any reason for why a particular graha (planet) is associated with a particular day of the week. Only the Indian Jyotish (Hora-shastra) provides the rationale, and not some folklore reason, but rather an astronomical one. Hindu concept of seven day week is much older and has other associated astronomical issues.

Greek influenced the east after alexanders conquests. There are even budah statues found in the likeness of greek style.

India named the days based on the greeks.

Mars is Roman. The Greeks called this one Ares.

@@GowthamNatarajanAI You do realise that Hinduism is the oldest religion and mythology.

I would assume less with the Greeks, but more with older civilisations in Mesopotamia. They were the ones who likely "invented" the seven days week. And if you look at the map - Mesopotamia is right in the middle between India and the Mediterrenean. Ancient cultures influenced each other quite a lot.

Small correction. "Mars" is the name of the god of war, in Latin, meaning the Roman adaptation of the ancient Greek god "Ares". ;)

wait, Jupiter = Dieu-Pitar = Tiw-Pater. Why isn't Tuesday Jupiter?

Same with the original semitic languages! (First=sunday, second, third, fourth, fifth, the gathering, the sabbath (arabic as an example here)

In Persian also is like that But months name are older pagans persian gods which some of them have similarities to greeks and norse gods

Yep I was thinking the same when listening to this

What are the names?

His mother is from Puerto Rico.

His wife is also from Puerto Rico.

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Doesn't that sound so much better than "Praise God"? Cause I certainly think so!

Philippians 2:10-11 New King James Version 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

@@michellejohnsen912 I respect your religious beliefs and you comment is simply a statement. It is not a demanding and hatful message. Thank you and I respect you for that.

@@00corin00 you're welcome and it's coming from love my friend. I believe it is the truth and has the only power to save us. I want you to be saved 💛

sounds like adapted from Spanish. Which makes sense if we remember Philippines was dominated by the Spanish Empire for a while as well.

@@WonderingWanderer88yes

Oh really? Tell me more!

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He’s actually correct. Not Freya at all.

​@Dylan_Time I just looked it up. It is, indeed, spelled Freya (or, more accurately, Freyja). Additionally, it's neither spelled nor pronounced Tiw, but Tyr. His name comes from the old High German word Ziu, which loosely translates to god. I give Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson all the credit in the world, but he does mispronounce names from time to time.

@@thereadersvoice but Friday itself was not named after Freya…..

Should have changed it to Chronos.

Uranus is Greek deity as well. The personification of sky.

What do Starship Enterprise and Toilet paper have in common. Both of them circle Uranus looking for Klingons. (sorry. couldn't resist)

YES, I think he's a JOKE as well!😲

I am very certain that is part of the reason, yes.

But we have 365 days in a year and 366 in a leap year. Where you get the 364 days?

Facts

Tiw is the old English name of Tyr. It's an Ares/Mars situation. It's why it's Woden not Odin.

@@VanAesir ok

Tiw is also known as Tyr. Its pronounced different based on the Germanic tribe your from.

@@Greatness810 facts

but it is so beautiful, the most brilliant of all after the sun and the moon.

She is beautiful but also very powerful.

One bring beautiful and being nice are two separate distinct things

It da purdiest, but it da bichiest, yo!

Venus is the hottest planet in our Solar system, just like Aphrodite is the hottest goddess in Greek mythology 😉

By buddhist monk and brahman stole them from them

But that doesn't explain the names of the days IN ENGLISH, which is what they were talking about here.

Don’t say “YOU PEOPLE” it’s rude