Sfânta Duminică, great lady of the week, mother of the winds and protector of mankind.
In Romanian mythology the days of the week are personified as 7 holy sisters as old as time itself. Highest among these sisters is Duminică (aka Sunday), a kind old lady who seeks to ease humanity's burdens and is a fixure of Romaninan tales. She is honored on her holy day with rest and merriment. It is said that any work done on Sunday gets branded into the holy lady’s flesh, which her 12 sons, the winds, can’t suffer and though they deeply love mankind, they will seek vengence for ther injured mother. These 12 good winds wander the world, observing and helping people wherever they go, until they too feel the need to rest. Then they return to their mother’s home, beyond the primordial waters of the river Sâmbăta, to bring her word of everything that happened in the world. There Duminică lives with her two loyal guardians, a she-dog with iron fangs and a he-dog named ‘light-as-the-wind-heavy-as-the-earth’. On Sunday after church service she visits every home in the world to gift people luck and good health, staying longest where her sons told her the people are struggling; but if she heard that somone has not been kind over the week she will peek in for just a second to take back the blessings that they've been missusing.
