more questions- how come diverse cultures all associate sunday with the sun?? in hindhi we call it ravivar taking on the sanskrit name ravi for the sun- tamil ofcourse is quite obvious.
who copied from whom. i read that the coining of the name sunday is given to romans - quote: Germanic-speaking nations apparently adopted the seven-day week from the Romans, so that the Roman dies Solis became Sunday (German, Sonntag), likely in reference to the Germanic sun goddess Sol.
also curious to know when we tamils started observing sunday as a holiday?? understand the concept of sunday holiday comes from chirstian faith ( associated with sabbath) and friday holiday similarly from islam. so when did we start getting sunday off in tamil nadu, say during the days of pallava/chola times would people have worked all 7 days - does it mean big temple was build in 25 years and 275 days of non stop work - or were they given offs /shift system., just curious
Vijay - It's only but natural to get an off day. It would have been impossible for any person to work hard - physical labor esply without a break. Maybe they had a rotation break system or something.
So Sunday is really off :-) I need to talk with my company folks, we still live in the pallava era I guess.
On the serious side... to establish an empire you need to work all days. There is nothing called as a break. Almost all successful people work all days. Infact Sunday's as the name goes has more energy than the remainder of days due to its association with the Sun ( I dont remember the reason well, let me refer and write later). I believe people refrained from eating meat on sundays due to the same reason, however after the western penetration into the east, things changed. Now if you reason the above, I am sure we will have a strong protest from the meat eaters/sellers association of India...
Those from very traditional families will probably recall the habit of not doing anything auspicious on Ashtami/Navami (8th & 9th days after full/New moon). This may be a relic from the ancient days when people took 2 days off of a half-lunar cycle. -Sri