Etymology of the days of week | Origin of the name of days

How do the days of week get their names? Seven planets of the week Days Of The Week: Germanic names. Italian Cameo Bracelet Roman gods: Diana as the Moon for Monday, Mars for Tuesday, Mercury for Wednesday, Jupiter for Thursday, Venus for Friday, Saturn for Saturday, and Apollo as the Sun for Sunday Walters Art Museum In English, the name of days Bible in which the seven days are simply numbered with seventh day being kept as a sabbath day The Greeks named the days week named after the gods Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Cronus. The Greeks called the days of the week the Theon hemerai “days of the Gods“. Germanic Tradition The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the Germanic deities for the Roman ones (with the exception of Saturday) in a process known as interpretatio germanica. The date of the introduction of this system is not known exactly, but it must have happened later than AD 200 but before