Is there a story behind the etimology of the days of the week?

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1. The Japanese days of the week are based off of the old Chinese System for the “7 Luminaries”

   http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowjpn.html

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet#Chinese_astronomy

   http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowchin.html

2. The days of the week are named after the planets, same as in English for some of them, and other European languages, so for example

   土星 – Saturn

   土曜日 – Saturday

   And the names of the planets come from Chinese

3. It’s based on the Roman calendar, same as it is in English, and then got passed along to China and Japan.
   “The Chinese had apparently adopted the seven-day week from the Hellenistic system by the 4th century CE… The Chinese transliteration of the planetary system was soon brought to Japan.. as early as 1007”
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week

4. My native language also has a system of naming days of the week after planets so I assumed it’s something similar.

5. i collected some interesting connections across other languages as well

   [https://eruciform.com/posts/%e9%80%b1%e6%97%a5%e3%81%ae%e5%90%8d%e5%89%8d%e3%81%a8%e7%a5%9e%e8%a9%b1/](https://eruciform.com/posts/%e9%80%b1%e6%97%a5%e3%81%ae%e5%90%8d%e5%89%8d%e3%81%a8%e7%a5%9e%e8%a9%b1/)