Monday 13 June 2011

Why there is 7 days in a week ?


In ancient times, people had seen the 5 nearest planets to the earth (except of sun and moon) on the sky. With help of that ,Scientists had done the research and accidently named the planets according to the positions of them. Mercury , Mars, Jupiter , Saturn, Moon ,Sun and Venus were the main planets which had seen on sky in hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Sunday - Sun
Monday - Moon
Tuesday - Mars
Wednesday - Mercury
Thursday - Jupiter
Friday - Venus
Saturday - Saturn

Appearance of planets were be convenient for scientist to named the DAYS.


In additional, Some were believed that many temples of many different cultures around the world show us the importance of the number 7. Seven is the symbol for the pyramid as well. There are 7 steps pyramids in Mexico, 7 steps Ziggurats of Mesopotamia. The wonders of the world is 7. Basically, 7 is the HOLY number to those are believed on GOD.

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