Anders Breivik And The Days Of The Week

Anders Breivik is the Norwegian who was convicted of killing dozens of people in Oslo in 2011, first with a truck bomb and then with an assault rifle. He was recently in the news for being eligible for a parole hearing ten years after his conviction.

Here is something that I notice about the case that I cannot see referred to anywhere. Maybe it's something that we should give some thought to.

Anders Breivik described his religious beliefs as Odinism. This is the worship of the old Norse God Odin. After the truck bombing he carried into the massacre an assault rifle and a handgun, dressed as a police officer.

On the rifle he had inscribed the name of Odin's spear. Another Norse God was Thor, the God of Thunder who had a hammer. On the pistol he had inscribed the name of Thor's hammer.

This massacre, in what is usually probably the most peaceful and prosperous country in the world, can be attributed to Odinism. In the U.S. the Hammer of Thor is widely used by white supremacist groups.

So we should be horrified by Odinism and want nothing to do with it, right? That is what I want to write about today.

Have you ever wondered where the names of the days of the week come from? It turns out that four of the seven weekdays are named for Odin and associated gods of Norse mythology.

Odin is also spelled "Woden" and Wednesday is named for him. He had a spear and Breivik had the name of his spear inscribed on his assault rifle. This assault rifle that killed so many young people, who approached Breivik for help because he was dressed as a police officer, represented Odin's spear. Yet we have a day of the week named for Odin.

Odin's wife is a goddess named Frigg. She got Friday named for her. The massacre took place on a Friday, but I can't see that anyone drew the connection that the day of the massacre is named for the wife of the God, the name of whose spear was inscribed on the assault rifle.

On the pistol that the gunman carried was inscribed the name of the Hammer of Thor, another Norse God. Thor got Thursday named for him.

Tuesday is named for Tyr, the Norse God of War.

The other three days of the week have names based on astrology. Saturday is named for Saturn, Sunday for the sun, and Monday for the moon.

Has anyone beside me ever thought that we should rename the days of the week? Should Christians, Moslems and, Jews have their days named for heathen, pagan gods and astrological symbols? This doesn't seem right.

What about the Norse settlement of Vinland, in eastern Canada? We know that the Vikings, led by Leif Erikson, were the first Europeans to settle North America. But the settlement didn't last. My understanding is that the Vikings aroused the enmity of the native Indians by killing one of them. Finding themselves heavily outnumbered the Vikings withdrew and it wasn't until five centuries later than Christopher Columbus landed.

Could this be another element of "The War Of The Gods", that we saw in the posting by that name, August 2021. Satan tried to convert the western hemisphere to these pagan gods but God foiled it and, when the time was right, made sure that it was the message of Christianity that reached the western hemisphere?

This was a step in what I see as God's plan for the native Indians, as we saw in the compound posting, "The Western Hemisphere", section 1) THE LONG VIEW OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

The widespread symbol of the Three Crowns, that we saw in the posting on this blog, "The Three Crowns And Fleur Dr Lis" November 2019, I have concluded must have originated with the Vikings. But they converted to Christianity and this is not considered as a pagan symbol.