~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, by fours; or by giving
the first hour of the week to Saturn, then giving one hour to each planet
in succession, till the twenty-fifth hour became again the first of the
next day. Both systems lead to the same result, as will be seen from the
following table:--

_Planets._ _Latin._ _French._ _Sanskrit._
1 Saturn 1 Dies Saturni Samedi (dies Saui-vara
sabbati)
2 Jupiter 6 Dies Solis Dimanche Ravi-vara
(dominicus)
3 Mars 4 Dies Lunae Lundi Soma-vara
4 Sun 2 Dies Martis Mardi Bhauma-vara
5 Venus 7 Dies Mercurii Mercredi Brihaspati-vara
7 Moon 3 Dies Veneris Vendredi Sukra-vara

_Planets._ _Old Norse._ _Anglo-Saxon._ _English._
1 Saturn 1 laugardagr saetres daeg Saturday
(washing day)
2 Jupiter 6 sunnadagr sunnan daeg Sunday
3 Mars 4 manadagr monan daeg Monday
4 Sun 2 tysdagr tives daeg Tuesday
5 Venus 7 odhinsdagr vodenes daeg Wednesday
6 Mercury 5 thorsdagr thunores daeg Thursday
7 Moon 3 friadagr frige daeg Friday

_Planets._ _Old-High _Middle-High _German._
German._ German._
1 Saturn 1 sambaztag (sunnun samztac (sunnen Samstag
aband) abent) (Sonnabend)
2 Jupiter 6 sunnun dag sunnen tac Sonntag
3 Mars 3 manin tac (?) man tac Montag
4 Sun 2 ziuwes tac (cies zies tac (zies Dienstag
dac) tac)
5 Venus 7 wuotanes tac (?) mittwoch Mittwoch
(mittawecha)
6 Mercury 5 donares tac donres tac Donnerstag
7 Moon 3 fria dag fritac Freitag

After the names of the week-days had once been settled, we have no
difficulty in tracing their migration towards the East and towards the
West. The Hindus had their own peculiar system of reckoning days and
months, but they adopted at a later time the foreign system of counting by
weeks of seven days, and assigning a presiding planetary deity to each of
the seven days, according to the system described above. As the Indian
name of the planet Mercury was Budha, the _dies Mercurii_ was naturally
called _Budha-va