Paragraph on “The Days of the Week” complete paragraph for Class 9, Class 10, Class 11 and Class 12

The Days of the Week

There was a time when the only division of time was a month, because days and weeks were not known to man. When cities were built and they began to flourish, the need for fixing the days for trading, festivals, holiday arose. The Jews fixed every seventh day of the week for religious purpose, the Babylonians fixed every seventh day for trading and so on and so forth’ Next came the need to name these days, the Egyptians named the days after the planets, the Jews gave them numbers beginning with the Sabbath day and finally the Anglo-Saxons named the days after the names of their gods. They called their Sun god `Sunnan’ and so they named Sunday as Sunnandaeg, The day of the Moon was called Monandaeg, Tuesday was named after their god of war called Tiw, and was called Tiwesdaeg, they named Wednesday after their god Woden, Thursday was named after the god of thunder ‘Thor’, Friday was named after Frigg, the wife of the god Odin and finally Saturday after the planet Saturn.