It’s Ty (“tee”) not Tiw. The Old Norse nominative form is Tyr, which is what many see when reading translations of either the Prose or Poetic Edda.

The stories are great.

I liked it — Tuesday. I’ve long wondered about that god.

this article is good…
should i say cool…
fascinating ^_^

HAHAHAHA this has to be THE DUMBEST thing I have ever heard in my life LM@O!!!!!!!!!! I swear people can come up with some of the darn-est things. There is only ONE true LIVING God who sent His Son for us yet, we reject the TRUE God for these false made up things that man create.

Interesting article!
I know very little about Norse Mythology and their explanation for why women don’t have beards is quite interesting.

“false made up things that man create”

I assume you are referring to grammar, as it is obvious you have little faith as far as education is concerned.

Yes Tiw,
you are right! Your myth is so much better. Especially the part where the son you mention is not really his son but the son of a 13-year-old virgin who had to convince her village that an angel came by instead of Joseph committing statutory rape. Thank “god” they did not have jury trials!

@Tiw; You do realize that “God” is another made-up deity just as the one in this story is, right? Christianity isn’t the only religion, so shut your fucking mouth and accept the fact that other people have other beliefs, you dumb ass. =___________=;

What a POOR story… i think dictionary.com can do better. I support Tiw!!!!! It is the DUMBEST thing!it is TRUE,There is only ONE true LIVING God who sent His Son for us yet, we reject the TRUE God for these false made up things that man create.I cant elieve so many would go away from a TRUE posotion to an FALSE one. It is not the sort of stories that should be going round… A true one. Please do NOT delete this entry dictionart.com, but please, ill say please again!! put ome trueful stories on here.
Greatrly Appreciated!!!!!!!!

W.Y. Hankshire

Tiw on June 22, 2010 at 4:30 am

HAHAHAHA this has to be THE DUMBEST thing I have ever heard in my life LM@O!!!!!!!!!! I swear people can come up with some of the darn-est things. There is only ONE true LIVING God who sent His Son for us yet, we reject the TRUE God for these false made up things that man create.

This post stunned me. That anyone could be so bias, imposing their religion on anyone who is unlucky enough to have come across it and disregarding any other religion or folklore as “DUMB”. It disgusts me. For your information, NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES AS YOU DO!!!!! For example, SOME think that A god that sent his/her son to us (saying “His Son” is sexist beyond belief)but that there are still other gods. Some believe that there is no god, but still like to read the works of art “man” (sexist!!!) created. You ruined it for me. I’ll see you in Hades.

Really Tiw – what gives?

“Tiw”, Norse mythos predate your mythos by quite a bit of time. Who knows, perhaps sometime in the future, people will recognize your mythos as just that – mythos made up to explain the creation of the world.

Re: comment by TIW:

Some of us would say that the ONE true LIVING GOD you mention is no more or less a ‘made up thing’ than the Norse gods you so readily denigrate. Gods are all man-made IMHO, a means of explaining otherwise inexplicable phenomena, such as why day follows night etc. The Norse were particularly creative in their depiction of their own pantheon, but perhaps no more so than other faiths. Belief in the Supernatural permeates all religions — it is what religion is.

I assume, as most of those of religious persuasion do, that you insist on everyone respecting your beliefs . . . I would recommend that you do not LY@O at other faiths, particularly if you believe that about 1995 years ago a man changed water into wine, made enough tuna sandwiches to feed 5,000 people, walked on water, and then rose from the dead.

One true LIVING God . . . THAT has to be te DUMBEST thing I ever heard in my life.

Neat, thank you.
I read in the 90s where the days of the week were representing 7 Planets: Monday=Moons day, Tuesday dunno, Wed dunno, Thurs=Jupiter, Fri dunno, Saturns day, Suns day, and Norse Mythology taught something new.
Who then are the 6 Dieties representing the remaining 6 days?

There are MANY DIETIES!!
The ELDER GODS are more entertaining and enlightening plus more forgiving for things done by Mankind, their children.

To the person who left the comment on June 22, 2010 at 4:30 am:
You’ll never win anyone over with an attitude and language like THAT.

Mythology is mythology. All the gods it mentions are false and created by man. The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,and the Apostles IS the true and only LIVING GOD who IS BY FAR SUPERIOR – Omnipotent, Omniscient,Holy, Wonderful, Sovereign, Righteous, Merciful, Gracious, Triune, Good, Loving, Infinite, Eternal, Truth, and definitely Self-Sufficient. Interest that most people prefer to believe in anything else. That is why the Holy God in Heaven says “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 AND THATS HIS PROMISE. Ever wonder why these days are so troublesome? Its going to get worse. We need to turn to the True God.

Tiw…are you judging?

HAA! Isn’t it funny that people can make fun of this while preaching about the Lord? The stories in the bible are just as ridiculous!!!!!

Silly rabbbit, Religion is for suckers

The word ‘and’ and ‘but’ are, along with some others, words which are used to join two concepts such as “A man and his dog” or “He cannot but she can”
This is Dictionary.com and correct grammar should be paramount no matter whether you speak English English or American English.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Tiw, they are just talking about mythology. Haven’t you read any mythology before? It has nothing to do with God or his son (I am a Christian, I will mention). They are folk tales embedded in years of culture. Nobody actually believes it.

It’s a very interesting story. I always wondered who this god was (based on the day).

Funny, the more people that try to force Xianity down my throat, the more I’m soured on it.

Asatru ftw.

@Tiw
And what god may that be? The Jewish mystical zombie one? At least Norse Mythology as some sort of interest and humor to it, and remember the difference between religion and mythology is the number of living believers. Give it a couple of centuries and people will laugh at the outlandishness and quaintness of your beliefs, as your doing right now to the faith of my ancestors.

Anyways, good post and PappaDan is correct.

“Lo, There do I see my Father
Lo, There do I see my Mother and
My Brothers and my Sisters
Lo, There do I see the line of my people back to the begining
Lo, They do call to me
They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla
Where thine enemies have been vanquished
Where the brave shall live Forever
Nor shall we mourn but rejoice for those that have died the glorious death. “

Wow, a fascinating myth with a powerful lesson. The Giri borne by Tiw compelled him to to protect the well-being of his king from a potential threat is reminiscent of the Japanese Samurai warriors. This is not a story about “how he could have used something else to stick into Fenris’ mouth had he been smarter..”or other wise-ass nonsense, this tale depicts the stark colours of true Duty and pure sacrifice. I will henceforth think differently of Tuesday…

Hey NOTTIW, Viking age started between 793 and 795 Common era or A.D. Do the math!

Re cunningstunt:

“Gods are all man-made IMHO, a means of explaining otherwise inexplicable phenomena, such as why day follows night etc.”

This “inexplicable phenomena” is a very simple concept of the properties of light as it travels through space as observed by the human eye from a point in the same universe.

Would you like to know more?

“Mythology has nothing to do with MY gods, who are real.” – ancient Norseman

“Mythology has nothing to do with MY god, who is real.” – ancient Zoroastrian

“Mythology has nothing to do with MY gods, who are real.” – ancient Greek

“Mythology has nothing to do with MY god, who is real.” – modern Christian

That was a very interesting article. Everyone should just let people do what they will with this article. But to the people that insult it instead of just accepting and having fun with it should just keep their opinion to themselves.

Some responses:

Tiw – Nowhere in the New Testament will you find Jesus or his disciples making fun of what other people believe, laughing at them or calling them stupid. Jesus looked on the lost with compassion and longing. The disciples shared the amazing things they had seen God do for them, and thus won over through love those whom the Father had elected. You do God a disservice when you present an ugly picture of Christ to the watching world.

Not Tiw – You’ll find that the Bible has very little to do with the creation of the world, but is rather a history of a God who is both loving and just redeeming a people for himself. This began with the nation of Israel, and then expanded to the nations of the world in the New Testament. You may find it a worthwhile read.

Eric G. – The names of the days in English come from a mixed bag of cultures, because Anglo-Saxon culture has a long history of conquering and being conquered. Lots of ideas made their way into the English language–some Greek, some Roman, some Nordic, and some Jewish.

The names of the days come from the following:

Sunday – the day of sun worship of the Druidic peoples
Monday – the day of moon worship of the Druidic peoples
Tuesday – Tiw’s or Tyr’s day (the article above)
Wednesday – a respelling of Woden’s Day, Woden nee Wotan nee Odin, the Norse father of the gods
Thursday – Thor’s day, the Norse god of thunder
Friday – Frey’s day, the Norse god of life and fertility
Saturday – the day Saturn was worshipped, the Greek Titan who fathered the gods

Woops. “Saturn” was his Roman name. “Chronos” was his Greek name.
- BM

Tyr: God of war; son of Odin; equivalent to Tiu in Teutonic mythology. Tuesday is derived from Old English Tiwesdæg and Middle English Tewesday, which means “Tiw’s day”.

Etymology
The name Tuesday derives from the Old English “Tiwesdæg” and literally means “Tiw’s Day”[1]. Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Norse, a god of war and law[2][3]. In the Indic languages of Pali and Sanskrit, as well as in Thailand, the name of the day is taken from Angaraka (‘one who is red in colour’)[4] a style (manner of address) for Mangala, the god of war, and for Mars, the red planet.

It’s also interesting to see that the Spanish word for Tuesday is Martes, also named after the god of war, Mars (Roman god, that is).

From wikipedia.org:
The name’s word stem is therefore “Mart-”, hence the adjective martian (martianus).

The name Mars survives in everyday use in reference to military or extraordinary circumstances, such as martial arts or martial law.

The common forename or surname Martin (also spelt Martyn, Morten, Martijn and Marten, amongst other ways, in different languages) derives from Mars with the meaning dedicated to Mars or man of Mars.

The third day of the week in Roman times was dedicated to Mars: Martis Dies (Tuesday, literally Mars’ Day). It has survived in the Romanic languages as Martes (Spanish), Mardi (French), Martedi (Italian), Marţi (Romanian), An Mháirt (Irish/Gaelic), Dimarts (Catalan).

In many languages Tuesday is named for the planet Mars or the God of War. See Days of the Week Planetary table here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names#Planetary

So much variety here… I love it. For Erised: its okay to read a book other than the Bible – try it. You’ll discover as many prospectives as there are minds. Cunningstunt presents well and then reveals His lack of faith. This answer about a Northern European divinity being behind “Tuesday,” is being turned into a religious debate. Bible thumpers – back off! I believe in one God but every time He is mentioned – all hell breaks loose. I appreciated the discourse on this wonderful Norse “myth” (duh) itself more than the “religious stuff.” In fact, I’m willing to bet you (the great majority) didn’t already know this fascinating fact behind “Tuesday” – an every day word. …

this is why i am not religous first off to much fighting over whose right even over a silly thing like this that is meant to inform the reader of anything they don’t know. And second ummm what about all jewish people at the holocaust im pretty sure they prayed every day to make it out alive but they still were exicuted didn’t see god intervine and save his people but we saw other nations do that

Fascinating!

And here I always thought that “Tewesday” was named after the patron saint of fictional cruise directors.

Just and FYI to everyone… the word “MAN” when used in a biblical context actually means “men and women kind alike”…

Fundamentalists below (posters Tiw and Martha) have missed the point.

This is an article that gives background on a mythological character that inspired the name for ‘Tuesday.’ I highly doubt the author meant to preach anything for purposes of religion or spirituality, nor do I see evidence that anyone in this discussion has begun disposing themselves to worshipping some god called Tiw.

Anyway I think this is a cool little tidbit to know. What’s even cooler is how Tiw is Norse myth’s “god of war,” and Mars is the Romans’– Tuesday as ‘Martes’ in Spanish and ‘Mars’ in French seem to agree.

And no, posters Tiw and Martha, I have not converted from Christianity to an archaic Norse religion. Stop being so touchy; it makes you look like unreasonably-angry pus.

Most old Germanic names for the weekdays come from loan-translating of the Latin names, substituting Roman deities for Germanic.

The main exception is Saturday, where English (“Saturday”) and Dutch (“Zaterdag”) has brought on the deity Saturn, German has the variants “Samstag” (some jumbled form of Sabbath’s day) and “Sonnabend”, and Scandinavian (“Lördag”) means roughly washing day, with an archaic word for wash that rarely ever is used outside the weekday. In Icelandic, the names were considered heathen, and were replaced by other names:

Tuesday – “Third day”, Wednesday – “Midweek day (akin to German Mittwoch), Thursday – “Fifth day” and Friday “Fasting day”.

The word “year” was created by Norse gods before spreading in the whole world. Year was discovered by following 24 hours sun on June 21st to 23rd and the norsemen count down to 24 hours overnight on Dec 28th to 30th then to June 21st. That’s how the Norsemen discovered the “year”.

I am laughing about in the Old Testment that it said Noah and Moses had been living over 900 years old and all of his group had been living between 800 to 900 years. What a joke!!! Vikings did war in First Crusade, not Christianity.. Christainity decided to be with the Vikings in the second crusades. The vikings were disappeared in the 3rd crusades. Christainity continued until 5th crusade. IRONICALLY!!!!

“HAHAHAHA this has to be THE DUMBEST thing…”

I’m sure this is just a wind-up; the irony is so blatant, it can’t possibly be someone being serious

Interesting article too!

It’s unfortunate that time-travel wasn’t available to the god’s storyline.
There are some faded flowers in show biz who would have jumped at the opportunity for the cultural publicity. Old Tiw’s wolf-wolfed paw incident
could have benefited from a Tuesday Weld, reattaching the hand which surely
Tiw had become attached to. (If my brazing suggestion is not too brazen.)

I love to read about the history of the world, and being a student of Comparative Religion, it’s a shame that I don’t know very much about Norse mythology because it is very interesting (perhaps another module!).

Cunninstun 6:53am Correction – My Father God in Heaven is not man made. On the contrary, is it He who created man. You are correct, however, to say “The Norse were particularly creative in their depiction of their own pantheon” and “Belief in the Supernatural permeates all religions — it is what religion is.” Religion IS man made, in fact, it is what separates man from God. Religion enchants man to legalism, self indulgence, self gratification mainly for self gain – and it keeps man from knowing the True Loving God. A person who claims Jesus Christ cannot possibly be religious.

I am a Christian, and I’ll proclaim the gospel of Christ to anyone who asks; but I agree with Max and Texie: it was not appropriate for Tiw to turn this into a religious forum. And I have a hard time believing that Tiw is really a Christian (meaning a follower of Christ); Christ would certainly not approve of that condescending attitude. That is the problem with these kinds of forums, anyone can make up an identity and role play, for any purpose.

BTW, Dah is correct: People like Not Tiw should check their facts. Norse mythology is little over 1200 years old. A great book on the subject is “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton, first published in the 1940s. It retells not only the classical and norse myths, but explains the cultural conditions under which they were created. I personally think it is a lot of fun to see what motivates people to create gods, and the fanciful stories that evolve out of it.

Getting back to religion (and I hope this stops this possibly inane debate), it is important to keep in mind that, though in this country we all have the right to believe what we choose, regardless of what we choose to believe, somewhere beyond us all IS the truth, which we can’t change with our beliefs. But we can open our minds and hearts to earnestly seek the truth, even if it means risking being wrong. I guess Tiw never read the Proverb “Pride goes before the fall.” Or Jesus’s parable of the religious man trying vainly (in both senses of the word) to justify himself before God. Or “…blessed are the meek in spirit…” I don’t think I have to go on.

Thanks for your kind attention. And, thanks, dictionary.com, for the education and entertainment.

Thank you BlahBlah at 11:06 am. People like “Tiw” (the person who left the inflammatory comment, not the Norse God) are like four-leaf clovers. They exist, but so do serial killers and people who don’t need sleep. I’d bet my last dollar that “Tiw” is a wind-up, a troll, someone who thrives off of negative energy, whatever their real beliefs may be. Thanks to those who didn’t take the bait.

I agree that attitudes like “Tiw”’s are despicable. But the religion/Christianity haters who came out of the woodwork revealed a lot about intolerance themselves, easily jumping from a condemnation of an individual to the condemnation of an entire class of people. I know it’s fun to feel superior to people who believe in those old “superstitions,” but it’s also pretty easy. I think the more difficult path is to look inward at the way all of us are trying to create meaning in our lives, in different ways, and how no single person or group has “all the answers.” Just sayin’ . . .

So many gods, so many creeds,
so many paths that wind and wind
while just the art of being kind
is all the sad world needs.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My God is better than your god.

I disagree/agree with all of your comments and I am sure all of you believe whatever you want to and I can understand that. For the record I would like one of you smart people to answer the following two questions. 1. Is god a man, woman, or it? 2. What color is god?

Can some one explain to me what writting “just saying” at the end of a paragraph means?

WOW. Some people really need to get a grip. This article is to tell about one of the ancient culture’s name for Tuesday. There is no need to take something like this & turn it into an opportunity to shove your religion down peoples throats. :p

Reco, The bible says that God is a spirit, invisible, not human, but also refers to God as He.At no time can any man look at me and yet live. Dynamic energy!

RE: Tiw on June 22, 2010 at 4:30 am
HAHAHAHA this has to be THE DUMBEST thing I have ever heard in my life LM@O!!!!!!!!!! I swear people can come up with some of the darn-est things. There is only ONE true LIVING God who sent His Son for us yet, we reject the TRUE God for these false made up things that man create.

Lighten up and learn something … It’s called “wisdom”.

Is this forum a microcosm for the middle east?

I don’t hate Christians nor any other religious people, it’s just apparent to me that they are all brained washed subjugants of mythology and traditional superstitious beliefs.They will denounce someone else’s proof and logic without having any of their own. Interesting article by the way.

@person I agree.

However, people need to realize that trolls exist, and they come onto forums like these to post dumb stuff to start chaos. Allowing them to get under your skin is how you make them feel fulfilled.

Are these your run of the mill trolls that my roommmate brings home on weekends, or are they the under the bridge trolls that frequent Norse mythology?

@jmo

Proof and logic are great. Do they explain everything? Well . . . I guess maybe you should tell me. Maybe even the most basic phenomena of life on earth, like gravity and electricity are still shrouded in mystery at their very core. But I’m sure we’ll completely figure everything out any day now thanks to our amazingly logical and scientific brains. But until then, maybe a little humility is in order . . . So maybe you’re agnostic or atheist or something else. That’s great! Honestly, I can understand what led you to feel that way. Now, are you really that much smarter than the rest of the human race? Wow, you live in a developed western country with lots of cool technology! Please tell us how stupid the rest of us are! Nobody with your same worldview has ever done anything evil or stupid. It’s only deformed religious people who taint the earth.

Tiw – you are right. There is only one true and living God and people who have rejected him can not see the difference between him and false gods. We have a secret. Do not ever lose your secret with God.

However, there is no call for that type of intolerance – everyone is entitled to make up their own silly fairy stories, dont you think? If you keep on putting them down like that, they might stop and then we won’t have anything funny to read when we’re bored. Just have fun and lighten up dude!

Lighten up goes for everybody actually – why get so worked up over nothing? You’re expressing how you feel just as much as Tiw was.

I fully agree with you, Believer.
I also think that people turn away (or don’t even start to accept) the real God as their God because it means submission. Being submissive doen’t come naturally to any person. It did to Jesus though. “Not that I will, but that though wilt” Being independant of God is something everybody should strive to overcome. When we depend on God for everything we find life becomes much easier.
I also support Martha in what she said about Religeousness. Religeousness and spiritualness have no connection. Spirituality is thorough and total submission to God in the conviction of ones sins, whereas Religeousness is shown in the scribes and pharisees of the Bible. They seek to showoff their supposed attachment to Christ and Christianity through deceit. I’m not sure where the scripture is in the Bible, but there is a passage about a poor sinner who smote upon his brest not even lifting his eyes up to Heaven and a rich Pharisee who was in all his pomp and glory promoting his supposed Christian values to God.

who said something abvout women with beards?????????

This was a good Norse Myth I was not familiar with. I don’t see why people shard off in directions of religious fanaticism with inane babble about the true singular God and Jesus, our savior. I believe in Christian lore and the Bible, but also, I mean, I can’t fault a good tall-tale, a good myth, and a good bit of reference to Nordic Mythology when I truly am fascinated with other cultures and their spin on ancient religious themes and legends. To a lot of people, Jesus was a myth, a legend, but to me, his words are what I belive.

Judge not, lest Metallica tell you to suck it and that you are not worthy of not only your own disdain and intolerance for fictitious tales and stories, but also not worthy of anything having to do with the preacher of tolerance and love and respect, Jesus Christ!

snaps!

(Luke 7:22) “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: That the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are clensed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,the poor have the gospel preached to them. (Luke7:23) “And blessed is(he or she)who is not offended because of ME.” (Christ sent His blessings to those who believed, but to those who do not believe Christ makes no apolgy)

TO: the BELIEVERS SUPPORTER, June 23, 2010 at 12:00 – That would be the Pharisee and the tax collector, (Luke 18:9-14) also see the example of The rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)

Thanks STEVE. I didn’t have my Bible in front of me.

I recieved a sheet the other day showing how much people have turned away from God to other things, by a humerous comparison with the Bible and a mobile phone. Its so true though, I think people are turning to God’s Word less and less when they are in soul distress.

Thanks BELEIVERS SUPPORTER – glad to know there are other people out there who belong to the Lord. What you say about submission is totally true and something we should all strive for.

To Erised – you will be alone in Hades, not a soul to talk to or even see. This may not make sense to you, but you will eventually find out if you do not accept Christ while you have time.

Anyone who is needing further light on the difference between religousness and spirituality, read Luke 6: 46-49.

Thank you Believer!
To Erised – Just ask yourself the question “where will you truly be in eternity?”
Our lives on this earth are but one second compared to eternity.

Accept Christ and have the peace of knowing where you’ll be.

Believer June 23, 2010 at 7:56,- Sorry “Erised” I do not understand, the words of the Lord God – arise and arose I understand. Also “you will be alone in Hades, not a Soul to talk to or even see” I do not understand. I believe their will be others in Hades and further more the others will be well aware of what is going on as in the following.
(Luke 16:19-31) :23 says “And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus… “. This tells me something namely-#1 the condition of the unsaved between death and the white throne judgement, and they are concious. #2 Indicates in general all – human spirits – between death and resurrection of the white throne judgement. (compare Gen 37:35 And 42:38 and 44:29, 31.)
(Heb 10:31) Says – “It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God”. But – There is hope for those who know the Lord God Almighty.

Erised, you know as well as we all do, you Know that God is True, stop trying to fool yourself, stop resisting, Do You KNOW what it is to have peace??????

Your not in Hades yet……and NOW is your chance to change and to believe, you cant in the end…..Dont take this in offence please, just reconsider—do you want joy, peace & lasting satisfaction…….You will Never ever have lasting happiness without God! I have proved it

May you Get to God, speak to him, call out & Change!:)

Okay I agree with everybody who said that this is not the place for a religious forum and for those who saw the irony of bad grammar and spelling on dictionary.com. Anyway I really think that everybody should read that quote that said

So many gods, so many creeds,
so many paths that wind and wind
while just the art of being kind
is all the sad world needs.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I totally agree with this and maybe if we all stopped arguing and focused on being kind and helping all human beings then maybe the world would be a better place. I am thankful that “Tiw” that rude joker brought this out– I have learned a lot about how close minded people can be.

This point is probably obvious to most, but the debate of whether Tiw existed is irrelevant to the point that the day is named after the character. You can all be right on the main point of the thread. There can be one true god AND Tuesday can be named after an untrue god. I don’t think using the name counts as worshiping a false god.

To ASH if you come back to this page; don’t you think it would be nice to have a blog site that ONLY christians could get into?!!! A site for encouraging each other where we don’t have to be tried and tested by unbelievers.

Look at this page and count the unbelievers to the believers. It seems like the un’s have it but don’t get discouraged because God will have the majority in Eternity!!!

So if I believe in God will I have a happy eternity? Can I add some french fries and soda with that please!

You may not understand what I said.– ”In plain english”. — (Erise)– I do not understand, because there is no such word in dictionary or Bible. Also you must not have read the passages in your bible but please read this one you may understand better. (Jude :16) This is – False teachers as Described. (“” These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage”"). Erise is one of those swelling words, try understanding Arise and Arose these words have meanings of Salvation of which “Christ is the Author”. I apologize now if I have offended anyone.

Re: Steve

Erised is the name of the blogger – see above.

“This is the best part (the women’s beards)”
Erm… I’m afraid to ask but…. What’s the worst?

The worst??? This bit
“thou must have seen that a woman has no beard”

I Always wondered how tiwsday got its name

He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject
to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin in the
earth is of the earth, and speaks as of the earth. He who comes out of
heaven is above all, and what he has seen and has heard, this he
testifies; and no one receives his testimony. He that has received his
testimony has set to his seal that God is true; for he whom God has
sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

@ Benjy,
I know what you mean Benjy, it would be awesome!! But meanwhile we can all pray for all the other believers out there!
And there’s another thing, even if the ‘un’s’ seem to hate us talking about our beliefs…It’s a good place to spread the Message!

Prayin 4 ya buddy!

Here I always thought Tuesday was Soylent Green Day.

I’m mostly stunned that this harmless post on the etymology of a day’s name turned into a religious discussion. No matter the beliefs a person has, the thing that frightens me the most are those who are so radical in their beliefs as to feel so threatened by innocent things, rather than just believing what they do in peace.

Fascinating story, though I’m realizing more and more as I read the posts on this site that the content is informative, but highly informal and subjective in style. Taking a professional-sounding name like dictionary.com makes this site sound as if it should be an objective, professional reference, and while the posts are often fascinating, I by no means trust them to be fully accurate. I can only hope that others realize this and don’t use this as a first and only reference, and do further research themselves on topics that interest them.

@ Morgan:

Aren’t you being radical in what you say???!
Its easy to see that religion is the topic people feel most strongly about. Its the blog with the mosts comments.

This is a great article, however I must admit I was more interested in the comments.
Religion always provides such amusement.
Please continue bickering like 5-year-olds over myths, it keeps me entertained.
(:

I didn’t read all the comments, there are too many, but did anyone notice how the wold was named Fenris and the evil werewolf in Harry Potter is named Fenrir??? I love finding random HP references

oops, i meant wolf**

I’m fascinated by world mythologies and loved this article. Though I’ve read the Eddur (or large portions of them, at least) and am familiar with Tyr, I was not aware that he had an influence on our modern lagnuage. Very informative – keep it up dictionary.com!

(Notice I refrained from making any comment regarding religion? I was tempted though… )

(Also, I’m not sure if Eddur is the correct plural of Edda. I am sure that someone here will correct me though )

Will all the proselytizers please eff off already. This is not a religious forum, and those of us who’re here to find out how ‘Tuesday’ came about can’t be bothered whether your god is real or not.

Great site. A lot of useful information here. I’m sending it to some friends!

HAHAHAHA! Stupid mortals!lmaoooo You and your it was Tyr, not Tiw and norse and greek gods and stuff — everyone knows there is only ONE TRUE LANGUAGE and that is the Christian Jesus-worshipping AMERICAN ENGLISH! The naming of the days of the week are the work of the Devil! And some damn foreigners who want our jobs. Thank you.
(By the way, I LOVED the Love Boat reference!)

They call it Norse mythology for a reason, it’s not real! But they don’t call Christianity a myth!

I’m sure that Tyr or Tiw would have applauded all the foregoing if he could just have put his hands together.

My dear good fellows, and by that I include those of every sex, race, religion or creed, one must say firstly that one is appalled by the standard of English on what appears at first glance to be a quasi-academic forum. Tut, tut! In mitigation it would appear that some of you are not writing in your first language, and, unfortunately, I would have to include in that category some of our colonial cousins.

Dictionary.com is about WORDS dear fellows, and discussions should be etymological and grammatical, not religious and fanatical. However, in the spirit of helpfulness, I should like to clear up one or two ‘myths.’ ‘Recco’ requested the answer to two questions. In response to the first, Bob Dylan said “Well, first of all, God is a woman, we all know that. Well, you take it from there,” so that should take care of that query.

As to the colour of God, this a little more difficult; I postulate that this depends entirely upon the observer. To some, God may be completely transparent, but to others, may appear in a variety of hues. There are, of course, some who claim to have seen God, some who claim to have spoken to God, and many who claim to have heard God; and yet there seems to be no consistent description. Perhaps God does not appear in his true form? Biblical appearances seem to be varied, burning bush, pillar of cloud, pillar of fire etc., so perhaps God is never actually seen? If so, that would make God the same colour as Schrödinger’s cat.

Another enquiry concerned the nature of ‘man’ and whether this can be taken to mean ‘mankind’ and, if so, does this include womankind? According to the first man on the moon, it can. The statement “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” whilst being completely nonsensical, rather implies that they are the same. As we know, however, Mr. Armstrong fluffed his line, which should have been “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” No mention of womankind there then. This, of course, raises the question: “what would have been a more politically correct statement?” Perhaps “One small step for a person, one giant leap for the people?”

To clear up the controversy, I can in fact reveal that “man” is simply a middle-English (c1960s) term meaning ‘dude.’ Whether any of the young dudes were women I shall have to leave to your judgement; certainly not all of them were, unless I was very much mistaken.

Turning now to disability issues, I have it on very good authority that Tyr did not lose a hand. I had this directly from a German professor of comparative history from Heidelberg University, whose teacher had studied under the great Max Muller, and who himself had worked with Frederic Spiegelberg. He told me categorically that this myth stems from a mistranslation of the Poetic Edda, involving an incident where Odin says “Would you mind giving me a hand with this bloody wolf?”

Finally, anyone who could state that “thou must have seen that a woman has no beard” had clearly not met my wife’s late lamented mother. Well dear friends, it has been a pleasure. If I may make so bold I would like to leave you with an imploration in future to behave in a more decorous manner, as the undignified bickering in some quarters is most unbecoming and unedifying. Amidst all the pointless vituperation, it is as well to remember the words of the poet “All nature is but art unknown to thee.”

Oh Thank God, whether He or She, for sending at last Sir Geoffrey Taint to this place. The last two lines are the most sensible ones, made me relax a little bit. Otherwise I was in the verge of frightened to be amongst insane monstrous characters, worse than the Norse villains. Breathe easy, let us with calm and composed minds. No need to debate what each believe as their own and stuff into the minds of others, without respecting their rights to think freely. Or else we are on our way back to the stone age through our mindless criticism.

To add to the information party:
In Vietnam, the days of the week are just called
Thu Hai, Thu Ba, Thu Tu, Thu Nam, Thu Sau, and Thu Bay.
Basically, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, and Day 7. Nice and simple, except for Sunday which is called Chu Nhat for some reason (that I haven’t discovered yet).

I respectfully ask all the Christians on here, who are busy mocking the Norse gods while pushing belief in their own One God, to reflect a moment upon this passage:

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
-Stephen H. Roberts

I’d just like to mention that calling a story a “myth” does not necessarily imply that it is either true or false in terms of historical fact. Indeed, the primary definition for the word on dictionary.com starts off like this: “a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation.”

Certainly the stories of Christianity fit this definition of the word myth.

Additionally, a lot of our material regarding the ancient Germanic gods come from the Norse sagas and other writings, but many of those gods are older even than the Norse peoples. Before Christianity was introduced, the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon settlers of England (the original speakers of English), who had to some degree been separated culturally from the Norse for hundreds of years, still had gods in common with them: Woden (Odin), Thunor (Thor), Tiw (Tyr), Freo (Freyja), Wyrd (Urthr), etc.

All this talk about Christianity and Norse Gods! go to youtube and type in ‘ZEITGEIST-THE MOVIE’ it will open your eyes to a few things.

i agree with jess although it is true that there is only one true living God, we should not interfere with other ppl’s beliefs

There is no black without white. There is no modern without ancient. In fact, Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus thought he was “modern”, therefore, @ Tiw, once, these Norse Gods were religion, something someone believed, and now they mythos, a melted vision in our mind, so be respectful.

Beliefs are beliefs, a source to put our imagination. Besides, I’d rather go to the Elysian Fields in Hades than spend my time in a nonsensical fantasy world, supposedly Heaven.

@ A Jerk

Lets hope you change your mind before you get there.
Or you might find thing a bit hot.

…Coz hell won’t be cool place to live for ETERNITY…

II’m a christian, born again, holy spirit filled tongue speaking etc.
I believe in one true and living God who sent HIS SON to die for MANkind.

I am also educated enough to know that the days of the week are named after pagan “gods” monday = moon’s day, tuesday = tiw’s day, wednesday = wodens day, thurdsay = thor’s, day friday = freya’s day. and the months of the months of the year have roman names (some of them belonging to roman “gods”. for example, january comes from the two faced “god” janus)

It is right and proper that you should be passionate about what you believe in and represent it as ably as you can. expressing abject ignorance is possibly not the best way to do it. we are called to preach the gospel of jesus christ not to get into mudslinging matches with the earthen deities they are used to being in the mire, we shouldnt get down there with them.

Meehh.

Thank The Good Lady for people such as Sir Geoffrey Taint.

All Hail Tiw, the one true god!
No not really, thanks for the article though, very interesting.
Not thanks however for the stupendously long religious / non-religous argument that followed in the comments.

“Can’t we all just get along?”

Hades is Hell BTW, they are different mythos, so you can’t really say that A Jerk should change his/her mind, cos he/she is talking about Hades, a mythological place, that may in fact be nice to visit in a noncorporeal sense, not Hell, which is a different mythological place, that sounds much less interesting and I wouldn’t want to visit. Like this comments page. I await the backlash.

*Hades isn’t Hell* I blame the meds

History folks, ain’t it grand! That anyone of even an average intellect would believe that this article was encouraging readers to believe in Norse Gods astounds me… Who are you trying to convert to Christianity? Some long dead Vikings? And by the way, the BIBLE only has one description of GOD that I ever read, (and yes, I have read the entire book), “GOD is Love.” I seem to recall another passage that tells us we can recognize followers of Christ by their Love for one another… And if you want to get technical, one of the ten commandments is “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me” NOT that there are no other Gods, but that the GOD of Abraham is the #1 God above all the others… Hmmmmm, ya gotta love that diversity, even GOD recognizes other deities.
Well, as Oscar Wilde once said; “Be yourself; everyone else is taken”.

It would be interesting to compare the meanings of “religion”, “superstition”, “mythology”, “deity” etc. not just in English but also in other languages and among other societies.

But women do have beards, despite todays fashionable landing strips. And, of course, bears have sinews. It’s fitting that Gleipnir comprised both male and female components.

whoa. how’d we get from a fascinating discussion on the origin of the word ‘tuesday’ into religious vitriol? egads, if this keeps happening, i’ll find some other place to visit. i’m an atheist and also the most *tolerant* person i know. people with belief in invisible gods do stuff like sponsor the crusades and bomb buildings in new york and are maniacs. oh, but *that’s* all right since they’re *murdering* for god or allah. i simply believe in being ‘kinder than necessary’ and it’s worked for me. religionists exclude everybody but themselves, think their way is the ONLY way, and sadly shake their heads at the rest of us. it is a hopeless argument. we need to stick to the LANGUAGE discussion here and eschew our religious points of view. it is a waste of time. let’s just stick to HOT WORDS and learn something new. cheesh.

I have no way for you to go or believe. I just know the Way, (John 14:6).

Really, guys? You turned an informational article about the origins of a day into a debate where you just go “nuh-uh I’m right and you’re stupid”

Wow, all this debate over the naming of a day. As it was stated, then it turns into a religious debate. First who cares how the week got named ? Does it change things ? I found it facinating, like learning where the terms – Graveyard Shift, Saved By The Bell, and such. To all my fellow christians, start behaving like it. Dont misuse what God have given you like some spoiled brat. Tounge lashing someone about what the do or dont believe isnt for one, going to win them over. Be the example. Dont threaten people with hell, burning, being alone, or other consequences of their actions. Those who will believe will seek it out. They dont need it force fed to them. Before throwing words around, be sure what they mean…Hell, Hades, find out the true definition. They are greek and hebrew by origin. Being able to quote the bible doesnt make you a savior. If someone wants to know something they will ask, I for one dont appreciate being force fed something I know nothing about. Think of this, Who is God going to ask you to answer for ? Who is it that he will ask and judge while you are in front of him. Who is it that you will be responsible for ? The answer is simple….YOU ! Not anyone else just little ol’ you. We were instructed to live our lives “Christlike ” Lead by example, teach when possible, but mostly have your life a living example. Spewing forth tyrades and lectures and trying the ” Your going to burn ” tactic is bullying and a fear tactic. Did Christ teach and lead by that manner ? Most of his examples were of in principle to those who were willing to listen. When he made the statement to the man ” Let the dead bury the dead ” he meant spiritually, in other words, if the man really wanted to follow Christ, he would have, and not made an excuse to put it off. Do you really think Christ would not have had him bury his own father ?
I lost an entire congregation over the idea that I found things other than the Bible intresting and entertaining….like how a day of the week got it’s name. If you in fact want to learn the things I have found by referencing the Greek, Hebrew, and latin languages, you would be amazed, at what you would learn and the power you hold. If not Ill not post here again. Tuesday….the man had guts….

@x-min – “Hell, Hades, find out the true definition. They are greek and hebrew by origin.”
——————————————————————
No sorry, there is no Hell in the Jewish religion. Period. On the other hand, ‘Hel’ is a location AND a diety in Norse/Greek/PIE religions. It looks like the xtians took the idea of Hades/Hel from the European pagans. Actually, from the pagans, the xtians borrowed most of the things that are fun, colorful, cool and interesting about their mythology/religion/cult… things like Heaven, Hell, Christmas, Easter and of course – the names for the days of the week. Thats what they don’t want you to find out. Thats why they freak out at post like this. Thats why you are not allowed to think for yourself. Thats why they cannot tolerate any ideas/interpretations/history other than what they MADE UP for you. And thats why most of the world is sick of them. So spare my ears of your jewish mind control bs. Get out of the matrix and return to your European roots of Father-Sky and Mother-Earth! HAIL TYR!!!!!

@ Mrs Peapod.

Any true Christian would follow the scripture “thou shalt not kill”. Please do not accuse people of what they have not done. However, I do support what you said abour “religionists exclude everybody but themselves”. The difference between religeousness and spirituality has already been discussed in this topic. A spiritual person would follow Chist in thinking for others first. Remember the old saying that JOY stands for Jesus first, Others next, and Yourself last.

@ X-min.

Are you saying that Paul, the great apostle was wrong in trying to convince people about Christ? He was imprisoned over it because his audience hated what he said. But what he did was right.

@ magic,

No Paul wasnt wrong…Im speaking about behavior. How did he conduct himself ? What did he teach and how did he teach it ? He was completely correct for standing his ground and not comprimizing his beliefs. He taught those who would listen. What I was getting at in my first post is, If someone is compelled to bring someone to the word then good, that is our stewardship. But if one would like to share the word, then hand a person the bible, not beat them with it..( Just to paraphrase not meant literally ) In life, other than God, who knows our personal secrets, flaws, and mistakes…we do. We neednt be reminded of them. In my personal opinion, and I paid dearly for it….Not only should a minister TEACH the word, but also teach HOW to put it into use. Christ taught in parables, using terminology, the current language, and gave situations that the people could relate to. It was a way of saying to them, ” If the shoe fits ” and went on to teach HOW to get it right. Paul was a much better man than I, where he started and where he ended is a journey that was never easy !!!

Relax, no one is forcing a new religion on you. Don’t blame ignorance or the ideas of the time. Just the name of the day, nothing to get preachy about. There’s a reason we call it MYTHology.

What a tosser. So the christian god who came along afetr most of the Norse gods is the oen true god? Kind of interesting that! Suddenly after a 1000 years of worshiping various gods it was found that actually they weren’t gods at but this other new kid on the block was? Thats laughable!

religion is designed by f***d up people pretending to be messengers of “god” to brainwash other people.

you morons just won’t stop spreading the “good news” of “god” huh?

in reply to: Xuan on July 19, 2010 at 4:41 pm (if you ever return)

—
To add to the information party:
In Vietnam, the days of the week are just called
Thu Hai, Thu Ba, Thu Tu, Thu Nam, Thu Sau, and Thu Bay.
Basically, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, and Day 7. Nice and simple, except for Sunday which is called Chu Nhat for some reason (that I haven’t discovered yet).
—

Chu Nhat is from Chua Nhat which means “ngay cua Chua” (God’s day). because Sunday is the day Christians go to church.
please also note that we Vietnamese originally used different kind of calendar system (the Lunar calendar) until the French violently came and intruduced the Solar calendar and Christanism.

Tiw…I am a Christian who loves Jesus Christ with all my heart. HOWEVER, I have no intention of knocking someone else’s culture or beliefs. This story is comical and whimsical, as well as being very informative and interesting. I love mythology from all countries and religions; it’s very educational and fun.

Speak what you feel in love, and not with foolish, inappropriate comments that aren’t even worded appropriately.

literally, jesus from the new testament, was an african-descending bi-sexual nappy-headed hippie rebel/turned activist/turned revolutionary who openly preferred the company and comradery of hookers, thieves, and all other manners of downtrodden societal outcast and have-nots, over the “goodwill” or acceptance of the status quo he saw as being Truly MISS-led if not outright puppeted by the corrupt entrepreneurs’ church’s monopoly on information distribution.
altrusticlly, jesus postdates(by thousands of years)and parallels the hordes of incarnations of the anthropomorphized sun and it’s movement through the 12 constellations of the zodiac. The details are ALWAYS left to the orator’s discretion, however the foundation and most-known traits of jesus ARE ALL PLAGIARIZED from thousands of years earlier. (horus,attis,dionysus,mithra…etc)

jesus’s december 25 birth sequence is the anthropomorphization of winter solstice. the star in the east is sirius(the brightest star in the night sky)which on dec.24 aligns with the three brightest stars in orions belt, also known as “the three kings.” the “line” formed by the three kings(orions belt) following sirius (star in the east)intersects the horizon at the place of the sun rise (birth of the sun)on dec 25.

the death sequence of jesus and the rest of the GOD SUN’s refers to the winter solstice. from the summer solstice to the winter solstice the days become shorter and colder, and from the perspective of the northern hemisphere, the sun appears to continually move south and become smaller and more scarce. the prevailing darkness and expiration of the crops when approaching the winter solstice symbolizied the process of death for the ancients, it was the death of the sun. and by dec 22 the SUN’s demise has been realized, having moved continually south for six months, the sun reaches its lowest point in the sky at which it stops moving south(atleast perceivably)for three days and resides in the vicinity of the southern crux(cross). then on dec 25 the sun perceivably begins to move again, this time 1 degree north, foreshadowing longer days warmth spring and salvation. however, the resurrection is not celebrated until the spring equinox (easter) when the sun officially over powers the darkness and the daytime becomes longer in duration than the night, and the revitalizing conditions of spring emerge.

THE SUN DIED ON THE CROSS, WAS DEAD FOR THREE DAYS ONLY TO BE RESSURECTED OR BORN AGAIN.

12 tribes of israel, 12 brothers of joseph, 12 judges of israel, 12 great patriarchs, 12 kings of israel, 12 disciples jesus travels with…etc = 12 constellations the sun travels through

crucifixion cross symbol = pagan adaptation of the cross of the zodiac

crown of thorns = sun rays

great book, totally plagerized from horus’s life.

I stop with the blind men and the elephant.

buncha blind guys go looking for the origins of the things they experience as a result of cohabitating with an elephant that they don’t know about. (shaking ground, sounds, evidence of consuming and defacating)they understand a presence but are all blind and have no knowledge of elephants.

one day they pursue the things that do not come from them, and they stumble upon an elephant making it’s self known. all jubilantly attempted to latch on and exclaimed they’ve found the source. overwhelmed with pride they all released their grasp and rushed back to be the first to divulge and demonstrate their newly obtained superiority to the rest. upon returning to their village each man was beside himself mustering up an audience to absorb and confirm their greatness born of that which they had ephemerally grasped:
ALL ADAMANTLY PROCLAIMED their wisdom of the source.

“he’s a swinging vine with fur” “NO.he’s an enormous solid boulder that levetates” “NO.he’s a great tree that bends itself” “NO.he’s a flat malleable leaf of sorts” “NO.he’s a …” you get the point. They all became enraged at what they perceived in the others as mockery jealousy and lies, and recruited their kin to quell the false proclaimers.
of couse it was an elephant, it was probably female, one man had touched the elephants tail, another, it’s side, another, it’s leg, another, it’s ear, another it’s trunk and so on.

the men only touched what they touched, and got so impressed and proud with themselves that they did not spend more than a few moments examining their discovery before they bolted back to the village for fear that another would get there first and lead the discourse on their revelation, hence receiving all the glory, and leaving the others who would turn up subsequently to appear as only subservent followers of the first.

shit’s silly but that tends to be the way.

no one these days even knows someone who knows someone who knew someone who could accurately recount how the conflict of that day with the elephant unfolded. But they all can tell you how that mother fucker over there is full of love-hatin shit and trying to undermine their ancestors sovereignty or manifest destiny or whatever honky shit they’re trying to pull.

thing was NONE OF THE ELEPHANT FINDERS LIED!!!!
PRIDE AND IGNORANCE AND PRIDE(again)are celebrated, UNDERMINING THEIR EMPIRICAL TRUTHS.

p.s. elephants have tails,bodies,legs,ears,trunks,tusk, and so much more, not to mention the TRUTH of what an elephant IS in a metaphysical sense, is parallel to the space between its atoms.

In other news, did you know that Tiw/Tyr is etymologically related to the Latin word ‘deus’, which means god?

@idealistic realistic mystic from the past
man – you have a very random outlook there – i love your attitide, way of writing, etc, however… I DO NOT APPRECIATE IT WHEN THE LORD JESUS IS MOCKED. why dont you use your humour for things that arent gonna offend peple??? thanks

@Tiw: God forbid that anyone would want to study the mythologies of the past because they have artistic, historic and literary value. Just because someone studies these things doesn’t mean that they worship it, you daft obscenity.

Very interesting especially the poster who added the information re Old Norse. Say, the superstitious silly Abrahamic types (Jews, Christians, Moslems) could have left out their psychoneurotic nonsense. It added nothing to this post re Tuesday.

I have read many posts and comments debating about the ONE TRUE GOD versus Many Gods Idea and I am here to bring information to light. I am learning to become a historian and I know that archeologists discovered scrolls written by the romans describing that after Christ was crucified he went to the underworld not hell and preached to the souls of dead greeks and romans. (just a note the romans believed in the same gods as the greeks did before them they just changed the names) The tablets also described that during the the end of the world it will be Hades god of the under world not the fallen angel Lucifer that will battle God.

I only try to set the record strait.

Also on the subject of norse gods notice that if you look up the purposes of each god that most of them not all but most will have fertility, war or both in their list.

Ok this the final post for me. I am christian but not in the way you think . I believe in the teachings and morals but nobody can no if he was divine and because of that I will never force my beliefs on someone be they muslim, jewish,hindu,buddist,ect. If you actually read christs teachings he did not force his beliefs on any one he merely said them and people listened because it apealed to them. This may seem a little atheist but I believe something will happen when we die but nobody knows. The same can be said about different beliefs nobody Knows which is right just pick which one seems like it morally fits who you are.

How you spread your Beliefs Shows who you are and What you are really like .

In response to (Nobody)’s comment about how most norse gods have fertility and war in the list of purposes I would like to say for all humors sakes

The norse gods were Pretty much Powerful yet Horny Killers.

I dont want to insult any body but he kind of left it wide open for a joke.

Gosh, I sure do find it ironic when Christians act as if they are being persecuted by the masses, when more than 76% of people in the U.S. identify as Christian. All 24% of us are beating up on you? That makes a lot of sense, guys.
I don’t have anything against a person having religion, or against Christians, or Jesus Christ. I DO have something against hypocrisy. (Same thing as white Americans–of whom I am one–talking about how they’re suffering so much from “reverse racism.” Uh, what?)
Also, several commentors have made jokes about how if people on this forum don’t become Christian, they will go to Hell and “find thing (sic) a bit hot.” Is that a Christian attitude? To mock and feel superior towards people you believe are going to suffer for all eternity? Do you really wonder why not everyone wants to join your club, when that’s the message of hate and condescension you’re sending? Again, I am not aiming that at ALL Christians, but against those who use Hell as a threat and a joke in a way that I really don’t think Jesus would approve of.


MYTHOLOGY IS MTHOLOGY!
RELIGION is a different things!
Look up the definition of both and you will be laughing at your comment TIW!.
Silly you!


MYTHOLOGY IS MYthology
RELIGION is a different thing!
Look up the definition of both and you will be laughing at your comment TIW!.
Silly you!

If Hades or Hell does not exist, what is the Lake of Fire and Brimstones for? I was told it was to burn the souls(the part of you that belongs to God) of the, Cowardly, Unbelieving, Sexually Immorals (this covers most of us), Murderers, Socerers, Idol worshipers (other God’s), Liers, and all the other Abominable things. That covers everyone else, so now what do we do?

I don’t understand why this whole religious debate is even happening?

The article is explaining the origin of a word. Whether those who coined the phrase were correct in their religious beliefs is irrelevant. One might as well argue against the etymology of the word “house” or “dog”.

If the history of a word so offends people, then perhaps those people should cease their use of said word and make one up that is more agreeable to their beliefs and sensibilities. If enough people agree with the change, it will take precedent and the old word will vanish into disuse. Problem solved. Cheers!

Tiw (and a flocking bunch of other sheeple) don’t be so upset because you worship a book that is a bastardized and plagarized conglomeration of Pagan beliefs and practices. Copycat Xtianity was indeed made-up from the ORIGINAL RELIGIONS of Paganism. (Definitely around *first* and will be here long after the last few of your sheeple have seen xtianity for the greedy, bogus,hate-mongering lies that it is.) What the fuck do you think a bunny and eggs have to do with a zombie-god arising from the dead? Zero, that’s what. Your “easter” was stolen from Ostara(Pagan sabbat) that honors Eostere, a fertility Goddess.(Notice THAT spelling, huh?)Hence our use of fertility symbols like eggs and bunnies. Also,the idea of a trinity was stolen from the tales of Isis, Osiris and Horus. Your date of xmas was stolen from Mithras’ birthday of December 25. Your All Hallow’s Eveisreally Samhain (Pagan!). Basically NOTHING in the xtian religion is original to them; it’s all stolen from the earlier traditions of Paganism. Hell, even our pentacle that is so “evil” to you fundies was utilized (read STOLEN) by xtianity in its early days. It was finally demonized because someoene finally realized that it was too obviously stolen from Paganism and they didn’t want to make the rest of their thievery too obvious. Thieves. You don’t even have original brains to make up your own damned religion,LOL!

And just to enlighten you: Moon Day, Tuis’ Day, Woden’s Day, Thor’s Day, Freya’s Day, Saturn’s Day and Sun Day are also THE ORIGINALS. Now, go study and educate yourselves.

God doesn’t believe in atheists. And while debating whether you believe in Him or not, or whether you acknowledge that He is a “he” at all, matters not. He exists, and is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Seek God while He may be found. And He may only be found in the Man, Jesus Christ, who shed His blood for you. Ask God to reveal Himself as He truly is, and if you do actually keep an open mind, He will do just that.

Lord Jesus, I pray that You would remove the veil, let them see You and receive You in their hearts. May Your Kingdom Come Near. Amen.

Did I really spend half an hour reading through all of that? Should’ve gone to bed.

@idealistic realistic mystic from the past
Nice quote of the Zeitgeist documentary transcript! That’s a great documentary especially the first 3rd on religion.

What’s the funniest thing? The extremists of almost all religions are generally the furthest from what that religion actually (pr/t)eaches.

If the English language can have 46 synonyms for “happy” then surely a religion can be interpreted in more than one way. Stand with 4 friends around a football. You all see it from a different angle but it’s still the same ball.

[...] “TUESDAY AFTERNOON” – JOSEPH CAMPBELL has described MYTHOLOGY as other peoples religion. — In the USA it’s up to you to make your own decision with freedom there to do so — The more we look around — the more we believe in EUGUENICS with the sperm donor business exploding without the Orgasm of Pyrotechnics. — So they call it “Sormy Monday” and they say Tuesday is just as Bad. — We’re burning out by Wednesday because some said it was worse. — Otherwise it’s hearsay such is the literal curse. –>>Rupert L.T.Rhyme [...]

PapaDan, thank you. I knew from reading Norse Mythology as a kid that Tyr lost his hand to Fenrir (not Fenris) and was wondering where this Tiw fit in until I saw your comment. The article makes it sound like he dropped out of the picture altogether and that wasn’t the case in the stories I read either. It would be interesting to find out where the info for the article came from.

What about Britney!!!???

“They call it Norse mythology for a reason, it’s not real! But they don’t call Christianity a myth!”

Yes they do. And they’re correct.

@ Joe

“gravity & electricity are shrouded in mystery”. You must be smoking some killer crack because those have been scientifically tested & proven true for hundreds of years. Gravity being the constant force of acceleration exerted on a body due to the mass of the planetary body & electricity come in a number of forms & created in a number of ways.

Time to wake up & read something other than fiction.

This is addressed to the editors and writers of this website as well as to the people who make comments. If this is a website designed to educate people, it should not employ a derogatory or amused tone when writing about other peoples’ religious stories, whether or not the people who believe(d) the stories are alive. It is not your role to say of an important figure in any religion “X used to be a big shot” or to compare societal and cultural change in religious beliefs to the contemporary American public’s short-lived interest in celebrities. When you said “culture can be fickle and cruel” I assume you were referring to the centuries-long conversion of Europe to Christianity.
Any religious story taken superficially sounds silly. That’s not because they really are silly, it’s because of faith. When we are of a particular faith, we believe the story and it holds importance for us that goes way beyond our favorite novel or TV show. In all religious traditions, people use stories to try to put what they believe into a form that can be told to someone else. The real underlying idea of Jesus, for instance, or Moses or Mohammed, and his relationship with God exists in a dimension that ordinary language can’t capture – so we tell stories about him in language that we know. It’s as though religious stories are poems that use metaphors to express the inexpressible. So, if we take the metaphor for the thing it is expressing, we are completely off base. One more thing – don’t forget, many of you, about the ancient Northern Europeans whose deities you find silly: look in the mirror. They’re your ancestors.

Why did a simple and interesting story about how a day got it’s name become a religious debate?

Every word or name has their roots whether we like the origin of them or not.

One other thing, an intelligent person would research the past for what they believe to be a “truth” and present it before belittling what he thinks to be false.

I like how you’re not supposed to force your faith on others, but Christians are the best at that lol maybe you (meaning, forceful Christians) should start respecting what your religion tells you about respecting OTHERS and then come back and address what exactly is “dumb.”

Love Norwegian folklore / mythology, though. I play the MMORPG and it’s funny how similar it is, they really did their best to include a lot of relevant information into the game! The God Essence Gleipnir really IS made of what’s written here (in the game). It’s great knowledge; why be ignorant after all?

Thank you for this wonderful knowledge! I had no idea Tuesday was linked to Norse folklore. Vikings are awesome and so are the tales of Valhalla and the like.

I agree with Tiw and Believer. There really is only one God and only he can give us the wisdom we seek. Christianity is not a religon it is a relationship with the one and only Jesus Christ who died for our sins. His love is not just love, it is a love that surpasses all understandings and gives us the hope that we need to live our lives.

I may be Christian, but I am ashamed to be lumped together with those crazy fanatics attempting to force people into Christianity (which, by the way, OBVIOUSLY DOESN’T WORK so stop doing it). In no way is this article “sacrilegious”. It is simply an article on Norse mythology. Protesting this as “sacrilegious” is the same as protesting a musical concert (in which I have been present when it has happened). It’s STUPID. So just shut up and enjoy the article. Oh wait, your brains are too small to comprehend just how amazing Norse mythology is. My bad.

FYI, Hades is mentioned in the Book of Revelations, idiot. If you DO read the Bible, you would know. Christians should be tolerant, just as Jesus was. It’s rude to ridicule someone else’s religion.

Also, Believer, Believer’s Supporter, and Steve are all the same person. So, you troll, piss off and go burn a cross or something, because you don’t belong here.

Anyways, thanks for the interesting article.

Tiw, I am strong Cristian, but we aren’t rejecting our god, we are discovering what other people before us gods’ were like to them…

Whether you believe in any mythology or not, no one can take away the wonderful stories that they are. I’d rather hear about Tyr getting his hand bitten off by the Fenris than watch Bam Magera launch himself down a hill in a shopping cart wearing only his underpants any day.

On an additional note, Thursday is a tribute to Thor.

PS: What “idealistic realistic mystic from the past” said, although a tad eccentric in presentation was correct if you look at religions without omitting details that contradict themselves.

Now, I’m willing to believe that there was a man named Jesus that made a big wave in his time. But I believe he did it as a man like every other revolutionary of a man did it back than; say and do what you can to get the rabble on your side and go. The likelihood of biblical Jesus however is just far to suspect, and if you try to take the rest of the Bible as equal fact than the desires of Jehovah (God) were constantly changing to the point of being contradictory. How can one want to believe in a god that will one century command a terrible person to be spared for compassion is the way to go, only to massacre 100 people the next century because they couldn’t get a bunch of wet straw to burn.

I got carried away there, the point I was originally intending to make was that the Story of Jesus is almost exactly the same as the story of another wise and compassionate holy man named Budah. And I hate to be barer of bad news to you die hard Jesus fans out there but Budah came first by few thousand years and as far. To be completely fair, Budah is better than Jesus because as far I know no one has ever laid waste to their neighbors in the name of Budah.

Whether you believe in any mythology or not, no one can take away the wonderful stories that they are. I’d rather hear about Tyr getting his hand bitten off by the Fenris than watch Bam Magera launch himself down a hill in a shopping cart wearing only his underpants any day.

On an additional note, Thursday is a tribute to Thor.

PS: What “idealistic realistic mystic from the past” said, although a tad eccentric in presentation was correct if you look at religions without omitting details that contradict themselves.

Now, I’m willing to believe that there was a man named Jesus that made a big wave in his time. But I believe he did it as a man like every other revolutionary of a man did it back than; say and do what you can to get the rabble on your side and go. The likelihood of biblical Jesus however is just far to suspect, and if you try to take the rest of the Bible as equal fact than the desires of Jehovah (God) were constantly changing to the point of being contradictory. How can one want to believe in a god that will one century command a terrible person to be spared for compassion is the way to go, only to massacre 100 people the next century because they couldn’t get a bunch of wet straw to burn.

I got carried away there, the point I was originally intending to make was that the Story of Jesus is almost exactly the same as the story of another wise and compassionate holy man named Budah. And I hate to be barer of bad news to you die hard Jesus fans out there but Budah came first by few thousand years. To be completely fair, Budah is better than Jesus because as far I know no one has ever laid waste to their neighbors in the name of Budah.

Oh lovely, sorry about the chain posts there. I tried to PS my first post but when it refreshed the original post was gone so I presumed it was being replaced. Only now that I return to this page do all the posts show up.

Sorry again.

yup, the ancient tale

sunday- for the sun
monday- for the moon
tuesday- for tiw aka tyr, mars aka ares to some
wednesday – for woden aka odin, idk for romano-grecian
thursday – for thor, jupiter aka zeus to some
friday- for freya, idk for romano-grecian
saturday – idk in norse, saturn aka chronus

ancient societies often associate in their own tongue

Reading this forum it would appear that the names of the days of the week are causing offence to some of the brethren. May I suggest we change them to the following & therefore start to rid this world of all those horrible ancient cultural things :

Monday to Monatanybacktoworkday
Tuesday to chewbaccyday (sounds similar)
Wednesday to Weddingsonlyonthisday
Thursday to Thirstymusthaveapintday
Friday to Friedeggandbaconday
Saturdary to satdownandwatchsportday
Sunday to Twatsday (a bit controversial i must admit)

What do you reckon? If anyone has any better suggestions, jot them down & call jesus

PLEASE DON’T FEED THE TROLLS.

[...] a deity with two heads is the namesake for one of our prominent months, consider the story of the obscure, one-armed Norse god that Tuesday is named after. His name, and history, can be found [...]

[...] If you find it odd that a deity with two heads is the namesake for one of our prominent months, consider the story of the obscure, one -armed Norse god that Tuesday is named after. [...]

[...] a deity with two heads is the namesake for one of our  prominent months, consider the story of the obscure,  one-armed Norse god that Tuesday is named after. His name, and history, can be found  [...]