#SatireSaturdays Most experts say that #Saturday was named after #Saturn. There is reasons for this, but there's a compelling case for an #AlternateViewpoint. Notice, Saturday is the only day of the week not named after some deity in the #TeutonicPantheon. They say there wasn't any that matched Saturn. Is that true? #Linguistically, there is a candidate. #Saetere was an agricultural deity associated with the act of sowing. A form of his name in German, actually means "to sow" amd/or "to be sown." The root word of his name also carries the meaning, "to be humorous." It's from that root that we get the modern English word, #satire. The root word is really quite old, for even the Greeks have a cognate, #satyr. The fact that Saetere is associated with agriculture along with satire AND the fact that the common name of a well known #trickstergod, #Loki, is absent from that corner of the world, which indicates that Loki could have taken on a different name, demonstrates that #conventionalwisdom may be an instance of the proverbial #jokeisonus. #JacobGrimm, at least, thought so. (at Fayetteville, Arkansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jFI6FgWXG/?igshid=eqx40ormmdaq
