Pagan Names on Every Page

A Calendar Full of False Gods

Open any modern calendar and look at it carefully. Every month and almost every day of the week carries the name of a false god or a deified Roman emperor. Most of us have spoken these names every day of our lives without ever realizing what we were saying.

"And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." — Exodus 23:13

Yahuah's command is direct: the names of false gods are not even to be heard from our mouths. Yet the calendar we live by demands those names be spoken constantly.

The Months — Roman Gods and Caesars

Of the twelve months on the modern calendar, eight are named after pagan deities or Roman emperors who declared themselves gods:

• January — named after Janus, the Roman two-faced god of doorways and beginnings.
• February — from Februa, a pagan Roman purification festival.
• March — named after Mars, the Roman god of war.
• April — likely from Aphrodite (the Greek Venus), goddess of love and fertility.
• May — named after Maia, a Roman fertility goddess.
• June — named after Juno, queen of the Roman gods.
• July — named after Julius Caesar, who was deified after his death.
• August — named after Augustus Caesar, also worshiped as a god.

September through December were originally numbered (seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth) under the older Roman calendar. Even those numbers no longer fit because the calendar was reshuffled when Julius and Augustus inserted their own names into the year.

Not one month name comes from Yahuah's word. Not one is rooted in His creation calendar.

The Days of the Week — Seven Pagan Deities

If the months are bad, the days of the week are worse. Every single day of the week is named after a pagan god.

• Sunday — day of the sun god (Sol, the Roman sun deity).
• Monday — day of the moon god (Mani in Norse, Luna in Roman).
• Tuesday — day of Tiw, the Norse god of war.
• Wednesday — day of Woden (Odin), the chief Norse god.
• Thursday — day of Thor, the Norse god of thunder.
• Friday — day of Frigg, Norse goddess of marriage.
• Saturday — day of Saturn, the Roman god of time and harvest.

Yahuah did not name the days. The Romans and the Norse pagans did. Every time someone says "Sunday worship," they are naming the day of the sun god. And the rabbinic tradition that calls the Sabbath "the Jewish Sabbath" and ties it to Saturday — the day of Saturn — is itself a Babylonian inheritance, not a Torah command. The Sabbath is the seventh day, not Saturn's day. The names are not the same thing.

The Spanish Day Names Prove It

The English day names hide their pagan origins behind Norse mythology that most modern speakers no longer recognize. Tiw, Woden, Thor, Frigg — these were obscure even a few centuries ago. But the Spanish language preserved the original Roman etymology with no Norse overlay. Reading the Spanish week is like reading the Roman planetary week directly:

• domingo — from dies Dominicus ("lord's day"), but tied to dies Solis — the day of the sun.
• lunes — from dies Lunae — day of the moon (Luna).
• martes — from dies Martis — day of Mars, Roman god of war.
• miércoles — from dies Mercurii — day of Mercury, Roman messenger god.
• jueves — from dies Iovis — day of Jupiter, chief Roman god.
• viernes — from dies Veneris — day of Venus, Roman goddess of love.
• sábado — from Sabbatum (Sabbath) — the one day Spanish did not rename for a planetary deity.

Notice the pattern. Every Spanish day except the seventh comes directly from a Roman planetary god. The Spanish did not bury the etymology — they preserved it openly. A speaker of Spanish is naming a Roman god every day of the week, and most of the world has been doing the same in their own languages without realizing it. Italian, French, Portuguese, and Romanian all preserve the same Roman planetary structure.

This is part of the proof that the modern week is not Yahuah's week. It is the Roman planetary week, dressed in different translations. The Norse mythology layered onto English just hid what the Spanish, Italian, and French languages still display openly.

How Yahuah Numbered the Days

In Scripture, Yahuah did not give the days names. He numbered them.

"…the first day… the second day… the third day… the fourth day… the fifth day… the sixth day." — Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31

And the seventh day He set apart and called it the Sabbath — not Saturn's day.

First day, second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day, Sabbath. That is Yahuah's week. No false gods. No emperors. No pagan festivals. Just the order of days He established at creation.

What This Means for the Believer

Many believers, when shown this, say "Well, I don't worship those gods when I say the names — they are just names now." That is the same argument used to defend Christmas trees, Easter eggs, and every other piece of paganism that crept into the faith. Yahuah was not unclear about it.

"Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them… and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto Yahuah thy Elohim." — Deuteronomy 12:30–31

Yahuah does not want His people borrowing the worship language of the nations and applying it to Him. The names of false gods being on every page of our calendar is not a small thing. It is exactly what Yahuah told us not to do.

The path forward for a believer is to begin naming the days the way Yahuah did — first day, second day, third day, and so on, leading to the Sabbath. The months are harder to escape day-to-day, but the year is easier: Aviv, the second month, the third month, and so on through the cycle Yahuah set in motion.