Not every person thinks about all the little things in life, but some inquisitive minds are nevertheless asked a lot of questions for every opportunity. For example, why is an environment called a medium?
The name "Wednesday" is due to the fact that this day is the middle of the week. At least working. And in all Slavic languages the name sounds approximately the same - Wednesday, Wednesday, streda. This is relevant for Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Croatian languages.
Even more relevant is the understanding of the environment as an average day in a week for European languages, where the counting of days starts on Sunday, and this day is no longer average for a working five-day week, but for the whole week, turning out to be not the third, but the fourth. And here, too, there is a tendency to call the day average - for example, in German its name sounds like “mittvoch,” that is, literally, the middle of the week.
English and French name of the medium
However, if you turn to languages with slightly different traditions, call the days of the week, then the name will be different and have a different background. The French and English have different traditions, and the days of the week are called according to mythology, dedicating to one or another old gods. In English, Wednesday is “Vensday,” and this day is dedicated to Odin, who was the supreme Scandinavian deity. One of his names sounds like Wotan, and the interpretation leads to this word.The Swedes and Danes call this day Onsdag, which again leads to Odin, whose name in different dialects sounded somewhat differently. The French, Spaniards and Italians can be traced to the Latin tradition of the name of the days, and here again a different situation will be traced, but still related to ancient mythology. In these countries, the day is dedicated to the Roman god Mercury, and it is called Mercredi, Mercolez, and so on. For the Romans, the name of the day sounded like Sharp Mercury.
Ancient traditions give each day of the week the influence of a certain deity, and the Romans dedicated the environment to Mercury, who was responsible for trade, communication, roads and travel. The Greek counterpart is the god Hermes. However, in Norse mythology a deity with exactly the same features was not found. The god Loki might have been the most suitable, but he was associated more with deceit and fraud than directly with trade. And so the day was named in honor of Odin, who, in general, also patronized travelers, but still more related to military tradition. However, each nation has its own worldview, and so does the essence of the energy of the day.
Modern worldview
Modern astrologers are also inclined to correlate the environment with Mercury, the day is under the auspices of the corresponding planet and god. Mercury is the fastest planet in the solar system, it is located closest to the Sun and rotates faster than others, and the god Mercury is also swift. This is the speed of thought and the high speed of making useful contacts, accelerated mutual understanding between people, and generally a fast but positive course of affairs.On this day, it is recommended to make short trips, study foreign languages, communicate and acquire connections, promote the business. However, do not lie and pretend to be, it is a day of open and active people.
And this is really a fruitful time, even if you look at it from the point of view of human physiology and a typical lifestyle. While on Monday, many people get heavily involved in work after a weekend break, by Tuesday creative forces begin to accumulate, and it is on Wednesday that they reach their maximum, making it easy to redo the mass of work that may have accumulated over the past days.
In this period, when everyone has already joined the work, it is easier to find the necessary business connections, the work is easy - especially intellectual. Then comes Thursday, another creative day of the week when people manage to successfully complete even complex tasks, and then, by Friday, creative energy is already declining, and the body needs to rest. This is the nature of man - and many people notice all this on themselves every week.
