The origin of the week can be traced back to the ancient Babylonian civilization in the Mesopotamia. China uses "Qiyao" to represent the week; France used to use Latin to name the week after gods from ancient Roman mythology; and later European countries gradually used English and used gods from Nordic mythology to name the week.
Tuesday is the day of Tyr, the god of war. Tyr (Tyr, or Ziu) is the son of Odin. It is often compared with Mars, the Roman god of war, and Tuesday (Tuesday), the day of Mars, is regarded as the day of Tire.
Wednesday is the day of the main god Odin. Precisely because he is the omniscient and supreme god, he has the most titles, and each name represents one of his existences. When he was regarded as the "Wind God", he was specially named Woden, and Wednesday (Wednesday) was named after him.
Thursday is the day of Thor, the god of thunder, and Thursday (Thursday) is named after him.
Nordic people regard Thor's thunder hammer as very sacred. They make a hammer shape with their hands, saying that it can ward off bad luck and invite blessings, which is equivalent to the Christian's sign of the cross. When a baby is born,
adults also make a hammer shape on his body. Making a hammer shape is a necessary ritual for building a house, getting married, and funerals for the war dead.
Friday is the day of the harvest god Freyr. Freyr means "manager" in Old Norse and is responsible for managing the harvest of crops on the earth for a year.
The Vikings suffered from severe cold and were often worried that summer would not come, so they would hold a summer welcoming ceremony in June every year. The wooden statue of Furui was placed in a wooden cart and surrounded by wreaths to pray for a good harvest.
Rune, which often represents wisdom in Nordic mythology, is not fabricated out of thin air, but does exist. It is the earliest writing in Northern Europe. "Rune" means "mysterious".
Look carefully at the runes in the picture above. Do you notice that some characters are similar to Chinese characters? For example, the last one is very similar to the character "father", which means inheriting the legacy of the father. The rune character for "deer" has some pictographic meaning, representing two antlers.
The inscriptions carved on ancient epigraphic tools were written in rune script. The oldest rune script has 24 letters. People like to use it to carve it on flesh, stone, and wood. They believe that rune script can bring magical power.
In the poem "Edda", O hung upside down in a tree for nine days and nine nights, obtained the runes, mastered wisdom and power, and became more powerful. Later, Odin taught this writing to the gods and people, and the rune writing was passed down.
In Nordic mythology, people who are good at rune spells include Odin, Tyr, Heimdall, Feiya and others. For the gods, having runes tattooed on their bodies is a symbol of The best way to enhance the power of your words. It is estimated that Europeans' love for tattoos also developed from this.
There are very few ancient rune writing relics extant today: one type is the inscriptions on golden horns. These two golden horns were probably produced between 400 and 450 AD, and were built in 1634 and 1736 respectively. Excavated from Gallehus in Schleswig. The golden horns are beautifully engraved with pictures, and one of the horns has a runic inscription. It was kept as a treasure of the Danish royal family until 1802, when it was stolen and melted down by a craftsman, but its rubbings survived.
Another type is the stone carvings in Tune, Norway. Although they are very brief, they all have mythological value. As for rune relics from a later period, there are still many extant ones: a large number of tombstones, keys, chairs, oars, etc. engraved with rune have been found in Sweden, Denmark, and the Isle of Man. Such inscriptions may be words of praise to gods or sentences of love, all of which are fragments of mythology.
In addition to spells and inscriptions, the Nordics also carved runes on wood chips and stones to obtain prophecies, similar to the oracle bone inscriptions in our country, which is the so-called divination.
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