Monday, June 11, 2012

Footloose: Feria secunda



Monday, in Latin. Portuguese is the only Romance language that still uses the older Latin numbering system to name the days of the week. The rest all took up the alternative gods-based names. The Latin countries use Sabbath and Lordsday for the weekend; Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jove, Venus for weekdays. The Northern lands are all pagan, although the Celts use Lordsday Dé Domhnaigh for Sunday.

Another week of pinheadery.

Boringly, yet another bright warm sunny blue-skied morning. 

View from my back porch

Just kidding. It's never boring. It's always wonderful. I never grow tired of it.

A moment of spirituality from B's trip to the Caucasus. This relic from the Orthodox Church of Georgia:

Funny how modern people find religious relics so creepy, --post-Protestant rationalism, I guess--and still keep a lock of hair from a beloved person...to say nothing of Angie and Billy Bob's reliquaries.

This is B's foot, btw.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I do not think the relic is creepy -- but it does seem a bit random that it is a timepiece.

Actually, I would like a skull barometer/thermometer/hygrometer.

--Nathan

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