Abrahamic religions have a 7 day week and that okay. But do other religions too have a week of 7 days?
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CopperCicada · M
It's sort of an interesting topic.
People have used weeks as short as 3 days and as long as 20 days for different purposes. Much of this is in indigenous traditions. Much of it is related to economic calendars re how markets are timed and organized.
But the seven day calendar really has less to do with religion and more to do with the 28 day lunar cycle and how to partition it. Alot of people were concerned how to synchronize it to the lunar cycle.
But the seven day week was observed for millennia before the Tanakh was written. I'd say the seven days of creation in Genesis is really from the seven day week that had long been normative. The earliest evidence of a seven day way is like 2000 BC with the Sumerians.
Jews, Muslims, and Christians all have a seven day week, even before the modern era.
Buddhists follow a lunar calendar.
People have used weeks as short as 3 days and as long as 20 days for different purposes. Much of this is in indigenous traditions. Much of it is related to economic calendars re how markets are timed and organized.
But the seven day calendar really has less to do with religion and more to do with the 28 day lunar cycle and how to partition it. Alot of people were concerned how to synchronize it to the lunar cycle.
But the seven day week was observed for millennia before the Tanakh was written. I'd say the seven days of creation in Genesis is really from the seven day week that had long been normative. The earliest evidence of a seven day way is like 2000 BC with the Sumerians.
Jews, Muslims, and Christians all have a seven day week, even before the modern era.
Buddhists follow a lunar calendar.
