Shit, just learned the days of weeks in Japanese are based on the Chinese name for the visible planets, where they were assigned one of the 5 elements (obviously with the sun and moon thrown in).

Fucking hell, I got the elements and I could see the tie to the Gods English and other European languages use, but I was missing the planet step.

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@chimerror I love Sino-Japanese nomenclatural stuff. ^_____^ Just a couple of weeks ago I got to learn about the Heavenly Stem ordinals (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly)... because they're used in the Taiwanese highway numbering system, for crying out loud...

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