> BTW, I don't know why Gloranthans began to count the days of the
week
> by Elements (plus Wild and God Day.) In RW, Babylonian astrologers
> started with seven planets of their divine cosmology, IIRC. concept
> of week is not relevant for rural people....aside from the
Importance
> of Month and Year.
>
> But I can't find when and why this custom started in North Europe,
> though some says the names of calendar was induced by Christians.
But
> it doesn't explain why the days named after the pagan gods. (Wotan,
> Thor, Freya, etc....) Others say there is no concept of week before
> Christianity in northern Europe.
In the Bible, the week is introduced about three millennia ago
(century more, century less). Romans surely had it and also Greeks, I
think. So it spreads in the western RW and in middle-east very early
in civilization.
Its use in Glorantha is consistent with the general representation of
a world spanning from Homer to Columbus references. The actual names,
I think, but I don't know if I read it or if I deduce it, derive from
God Learner cross-civilization.
Gian