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All of this went back to the illustrious Dr. Q blaming the days of  
the week on the Egyptians.  Since not too many of them are around to  
defend themselves, that's cool. BUT, the days of the week as we know  
them come from the European languages and the ancient Egyptians  
didn't speak any of those. In fact the modern Egyptians don't either  
except as a hobby or an extra skill.  Something that most people  
don't know is that Egypt isn't actually named Egypt at all. Around  
here it's called Misr (sort of pronounced "moss-rrr").  That's what  
Egyptians call Egypt. Egypt also functions on a day to day basis on  
three different calendars: the European calendar so that the ex-pats  
and visiting business types can make appointments, the Islamic  
calendar which is a floating lunar calendar such that the Islamic New  
Year can be in July one year and about 10 years later in May, and the  
Coptic/Pharaonic/Fishermen's calendar that has a totally different  
set of months from the other two (neither of which resemble each  
other in the slightest) but it does predict storms, heat waves and  
when to plant your eggplant.

To bring this back to endurance, the Egyptian federation mostly holds  
its rather dubious competitions on Tuesdays or Wednesdays so as not  
to compete with the more important show jumping competitions.  They  
also never let anyone know when they are holding them unless you are  
part of the mysterious inner circle. The EERA rides are always on  
Friday mornings and always finish in time for brunch.  Not that the  
guys are particularly worried about making Friday prayer.

Maryanne

On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Jessica Spoone-Raines wrote:

> http://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/origin_days.html
> Jess Spoone-Raines
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maryanne Gabbani"  
> <msgabbani@xxxxxxx>
> To: <eidrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Bruce Weary DC" <bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [RC] Sunday
>
>
> > I'll have to do some checking on the days of the week in ancient   
> > Egyptian with some of my Egyptologist friends, but I'm sure that  
> > the  words involved had nothing at all to do in sound with ours.   
> > Interestingly enough the current Egyptian week starts on a Sunday  
> > and  continues to Saturday. The days of the week are simply  
> > numbered with  Sunday being Day One, Monday Day Two, and so on  
> > until Friday which is  called Goma here, meaning the day of  
> > gathering for prayer. Then they  go back to numbers for Saturday.   
> > If you want to drive through  downtown Cairo in a hurry, Friday  
> > any time before noon prayer (or  during noon prayer) is the time  
> > for it because the streets are fairly  empty. Afternoon, everyone  
> > and his brother is out and about. Many  shops close on Sundays for  
> > some odd reason as well.  Very random.
> > Maryanne
>
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