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    3 days ago

    My days off are Saturn-day and Sun-day. Like all the other days of the week in English, those names have a pre-Christian origin.

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      3 days ago

      Yes but the reason they’re holidays is Christian. And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter

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        4 hours ago

        And I was also referring to Christmas and Easter

        Yule and Eostre? The early Christians didn’t celebrate either (well, some did celebrate Pesach to some limited extent). They later did a hostile takeover of the pre-Christian soltitial and equinoctial festivities, in order to make sure nobody had any fun at them. They also converted a number of minor gods into saints (mostly now deprecated by the Catholic Church, but some still hanging around in Orthodox sects).

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      3 days ago

      Let’s also take off Moon-day, Tiw’s day (Germanic Mars God of war), wOdin’s day, Thor’s day and Frigga’s day (Odin’s wife).