[lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan.

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

--- Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org> 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.




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