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   Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 07:20:51 JST Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

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     @youronlyone Hello! Do you perchance speak native Pinoy? I'm looking for names of weekdays. Does Pinoy culture count time in weekdays like Israelites and Europeans do? If so, how do they name their weekdays? Are they named after deities, planets, a numbering system, or something else?

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     • Ænðr E. Feldstraw

     @aeveltstra A very good question!

     The short answer is: we do not have information.

     When the Spaniards successfully defeated (after years of attempts) the different navy armada and armies of the local political states, they immediately went on destroying as many pre-colonial records they were able to find. Then they rewrote our history as “barbarians”, “uncivilised”, and “pagans”. (Ironically, their own historian recorded that the people “raised their hands to the sky and calls upon 'Abba'”, which they took advantage to introduce Catholicism.)

     What we're sure of is that since the Spaniards arrived, we started counting by 7x12 as introduced by our first oppressors.

     In the Western Visayas region, they have this: (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiligaynon_language#Months_of_the_year )
     Sunday = Tagurkad (starting day)
     Monday = Damason (next day)
     Tuesday = Dukotdukot (busiest day)
     Wednesday = Baylobaylo (barter day)
     Thursday = Danghus (rushing of the work day)
     Friday = Hingot-hingot (completing the word day)
     Saturday = Ligid (rest day)

     Modern Tagalog and Modern Filipino, it's Spanish:

     Linggo, Lunes, Martes, Miyerkules, Huwebes, Biyernes, Sabado.

     These days, you'll often hear the English names instead of the local words.

     For example: “Let's meet on Sunday afternoon.”

     21st century: “Magkita tayo sa hapon ng Sunday.”

     20th century: “Magkita tayo sa hapon ng Linggo.”

     However, the farther you are from the National Capital Region, the more the local language is still used instead of English. But this too is changing in favour of mixing English (we universally understand Philippine English).

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     However, if one will believe the recent discoveries and records that pre-colonial Philippines had contact, migrants, and influences from ancient Israel since the time of King Solomon, then ancient Filipinos were probably following a 7-day week. Most especially in the Visayas region, in particular, Cebu. In Cebu (Spanish form), the tradition is the original name of the city was "Shebu", and its ancient name was "Sheba" which was actually reigned by a Queen. (And no, she did not become Solomon's wife, although they supposedly met because the Queen was intrigued that Solomon calls their "Most High" as "Abba" as well, and she wanted to know the name of this "Abba".)