From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 09 16:53:46 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EDsgb-0001r7-Eb for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:53:37 -0700 Received: from web81305.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.80]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EDsgL-0001qt-IC for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:53:37 -0700 Received: (qmail 28460 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Sep 2005 23:53:07 -0000 Message-ID: <20050909235307.28458.qmail@web81305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.88.32.165] by web81305.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:53:07 PDT Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:53:07 -0700 (PDT) From: John E Clifford Subject: [lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan. To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <200509091934.51071.phma@phma.hn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-archive-position: 10565 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Friday 09 September 2005 17:26, Robin Lee > Powell wrote: > > Do their names for the days correspond to > monday, tuesday, etc, in > > an obvious fashion? If not, I'd say it's > totally irrelevant. If > > so, I'd like documentation, please. > > They correspond to the names of the days in > Japanese and Korean. Sunday and > Monday are the same. As I recall, weeks (7-day periods) and the names - for the seven planets originally -- go back to Babylonia, where the number of planets -- and the mythological names -- got tied down. Since then the notion has migrated more or less well in both directions, so that there are oriental calendars totally unconnected with Rome that have (up to variations in mythology) the same names, with Sun and Moon being pretty constant. The other source of weeks is the 28-day (call it, for convenience) lunar cycle. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week for more details (some of them misleading: the Biblical Creation Story I and the Islamic calendar are cited as separate sources for the notion of a week tather than later developments from the Babylonian and even through the Roman. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.