of the day is also related to the Latin name , "Day of Mars" (the Roman god of war). Wednesday: Old English () meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden (known as Óðinn among the North Germanic peoples), and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons (and other Germanic peoples) in England until about the seventh century. This corresponds to the Latin counterpart , "Day of Mercury", as both are deities of magic and knowledge. The German Mittwoch, the Low German , the miðviku- in Icelandic and the Finnish all mean "mid-week". Thursday: Old English (), meaning ''s day'. means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor. Similarly Dutch , German ('thunder's day'), Finnish , and Scandinavian ('Thor's day'). "Thor's day" corresponds to Latin , "day of Jupiter" (the Roman god of thunder). Friday: Old English (), meaning the day of the Anglo-Saxon goddess . The Norse name for the planet Venus was , 'Frigg's star'. It is based on the Latin , "Day of Venus". Saturday: named after the Roman god Saturn associated with the Titan Cronus, father of Zeus and many Olympians. Its original Anglo-Saxon rendering was (). In Latin, it was , "Day of Saturn". The Nordic laugardagur, leygardagur, laurdag, etc. deviate significantly as they have no reference to either the Norse or the Roman pantheon; they derive from Old Nordic , literally "washing-day". The German (mainly used in northern and eastern Germany) and the Low German mean "Sunday Eve"; the German word derives from the name for Shabbat. Adoptions from Germanic Hindu tradition Hindu astrology uses the concept of days under the regency of a planet under the term vāsara/vāra, the days of the week being called sūrya-/ravi-, chandra-/soma-, maṅgala-, budha-, guru-/bṛhaspati-, śukra-, and śani-vāsara. śukrá is a name of Venus (regarded as a son of Bhṛgu); guru is here a title of Bṛhaspati, and hence of Jupiter; budha "Mercury" is regarded as a son of Soma, that is, the Moon. Knowledge of Greek astrology existed since about the 2nd century BCE, but references to the vāsara occur somewhat later, during the Gupta period (Yājñavalkya Smṛti, c. 3rd to 5th century CE), that is, at roughly the same period or before the system was introduced in the Roman Empire. In languages of the Indian subcontinent Southeast Asian languages The Southeast Asian tradition also uses the Hindu names of the days