English vs Spanish: Thursday
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Why is Thor important to the English language?
He is really important because it is with his name that they made up one of the days of the week and that is none other than Thursday which literally means Thor's Day (el Día de Thor).
Thor is not an invention of Marvel, the company that publishes Spiderman and also The X-Men. What they did is to take a figure of Norse mythology and made it more accessible to the minds of the audiences of the present time.
In Norse mythology, Thor is indeed a god, the God of Thunder, a deity that the Vikings held in great esteem. When the Vikings invaded the North of Europe they also spread their culture and their beliefs and a reflection of that event is the names of some days in English. Thursday is Jueves in Spanish and thus here is another difference between English and Spanish since Jueves literally means the Day of Jove (one of the many names the Greek god Zeus had).
In both cases whenever we say Jueves or Thursday we are using the names of gods from pagan traditions, an ironic aspect of our culture where Christianism is predominant. But that's the way we are.
Comments
I think we don't know much about humanity. The civilizations before ours and its traditions and breakthroughs remain in the deep ocean we haven't dived yet. An alien ocean, in fact. If i'm not wrong, Thor got his powers from the lightining. He is a semigod. Gods are not human. I find it riveting that many (if not all) past civilizations share one thing: extraterrestial contact.
Many customs that we've adopted have the origen pagan, and yeah it's a good point tell that it's a little ironic because most of the poeple practism the Christianism today.
Maybe they don't know the origen but what we can do? Those names are establish, now we can't change a day of the week. I think we call days as we learn when we were children.
This help us to increase our knowledge and it is enriching.
I also think it’s a little ironic, haha.
I like this post. I'm fanatical about Norse and Greek mythology. Sometimes I watch some videos related to them.