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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: seven-day week 
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:44:49 GMT
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mcv@pi.net (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) writes in a recent posting (reference <3302b9bc.235020446@news.pi.net>):
>
>The Latin names are best preserved in Catalan (dilluns, dimarts,
>dimecres, dijous, divendres, [dissabte, diumenge]), and even better in
>Celtic Breton (dilun, dimeurz, dimerc'her, diziou, digwener, disadorn,
>disul).
>
I have often wondered how (& why) the Jewish seven-day cycle came to
rule time-reckoning all over. I presume that the Christian franchise
widely exported it... Didn't the ancient Romans use lunar months w/o
any divvision of seven??


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