Days of the Week
see also metals

In ancient times the seven-day week was not used. In the Pharaonic empire that existed along the shores of the Nile about 4,500 years ago a ten-day week was used. That ten-day week was prevalent in both Egypt and Greece, and even in Asia Minor and the Euphrates-Tigris region, until after the death of Jesus.

If we place them in this order at each point of the heptagram, and then take a pen and follow the lines as if we were drawing a heptagram in one line without lifting the pen from the paper, we discover the planets that correspond to each of the seven weekdays in due order: sunsym.gif (874 bytes), Sunday (dimanche, domingo); monsym.gif (861 bytes), Monday (lundi, lunes); tuessym.gif (880 bytes), Tuesday, Tyr's day (in Latin countries Mars'day, mardi, martes); wedsym.gif (850 bytes), Wednesday (Woden's or Odin's day in the Nordic countries Mercury's day, mercredi, miercoles, in Latin countries); thurssym.gif (867 bytes), Thursday (Thor's day in Nordic countries Jupiter's day, jovedi, jueves, in Latin countries); frisym.gif (856 bytes), Friday (the day of the goddess Freja in the Nordic countries Venus' day, vendredi, viernes, in Latin countries); satsym.gif (867 bytes), Saturday, Saturn's day (lördag lögare dag, bathing and washing day, in the Nordic countries samedi, sabado, in Latin countries).  From Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms

  Songs referenced: 

Black Swan

Butterfly

Hungarian Wedding Song

I Don't Like Mondays

Liquid Diamonds
(underlyrics)

Marianne

Me and a Gun

Spring Haze

Toodles Mr Jim

Wednesday