Five Religions You've Never Heard Of


	Five Religions You've Never Heard Of

infidel70

9-30-2009 1:43 PM

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9-30-2009 2:28 PM

jmatts78

I've heard of Asatru and Maltheism.

9-30-2009 3:38 PM

Seosamh Dalzell

And I've heard of Asatru, Eckankar, and Ahmadiyya. So next time, don't be so presumptuous!

9-30-2009 5:55 PM

Antara

hahaa, yes infidel, next time the headline ought to read:

"5 religions no one NORMAL has ever heard of "

9-30-2009 8:36 PM

jmatts78

LOL!

10-1-2009 9:20 AM

Antara

hehe, yer a good sport jmatts

10-1-2009 9:39 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

Asatru: Faith of the Vikings

In Denmark, the week days are named after the Nordic Gods.

Tuesday = Tirsdag = Tyr's day
Wednesday = Onsdag = Odin's day
Thursday = Torsdag = Thor's day.
Friday = Fredag = Freia's day (or Frigg's)

Sunday and Monday are sun day and moon day.

Saturday is more mundane. Saturday = Lørdag (from the old løverdag) which means laundry day. Seriously! .

10-1-2009 1:18 PM

jmatts78

Really? I was always taught Saturday was for Saturn, from the Roman pantheon.

10-1-2009 2:10 PM

thisnamecantbetaken

It's hard to find anything translatable from Danish to English (Google translations just spits out babble mostly) but I tried looking it up and it could be that the Danish word for Saturday (Lørdag) was originally Loki's day, but since Loki was the father of Hell and the personification of the kingdom of death, the Christians, when they arrived, didn't like that, so they changed it to reflect the function of the day instead.

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fyggdrasill.1go.dk%2Fyggdrasill%2F05.htm&sl=da&tl=en&history_state0=

On another site is says the evolution of the word Lørdag goes as such.

sambaztag (sabbathum) -> sætærndæg -> laugardagr (laund...

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