Which Days of the week are named after Roman Gods?
would ask Saturn to give him good weather for his crops. They believed they must sacrifice an animal in order to please Saturn. If the god accepted, he would then make the weather nice for the farmers. In order to score extra points with Saturn the people named a planet after him along with a day of the week. They called this day “Saturni dies,” Latin for “day of Saturn.” In English it became known as Saturday.
