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(An American version of) Odin calls himself Wednesday in the novel.
Kinda immediately gives away who he is if you know the origins of the name of the day.
The names of the days where named after the 7 planets of the solar system by the ancient Greeks.
Selene (the Moon), Ares (Mars), Hermes (Mercury), Zeus (Jupiter), Aphrodite (Venus), Cronus (Saturn) and Helios (the sun).
Hold your jokes about the sun and moon not being planets and there being more than 5 planets in the solar system (Pluto doesn’t count, it’s not a planet) this was written by ancient Greeks, the people who also thought lead pipes would work great for their supply of drinking water….
When the idea of the 7 day week was adopted by germanic tribes of barbarians, they used germanic names for the gods, the same gods that would be the roots the latter norse gods are based on. Hence the modern weekdays of:
Moon’s Day
Tyr’s Day
Woden’s Day (old spelling for Odin)
Thurs’s Day (old spelling for Thor)
Frey’s Day
Saturns Day (No, I don’t think anyone knows why that one didn’t get translated)
Sun’s Day
Long story short, it’s older than the vikings, like ALOT older. And certainly older than some incompetent Sweedish prat who’s 2 claims to fame is loosing Carolus’s empire and getting shot in the head by his own men.
I hope that clears things up.
It became such a bother to keep the dates straight, that eventually, one of the emperors, just lumped the holy days together in two extra months, named them after other emperors, July and August, guess the emperors yourself.
The real question you should be asking yourself is, if we have our calendar from the Romans, why are all but one of the days in the week, named after Norse gods, instead of Roman gods? only day named for a roman god is Saturns day.