Tyr, known for his great wisdom and courage, agreed, and the other gods bound the wolf. Fenrir, however, sensed the gods’ deceit and refused to be bound with it, unless one of them put his hand in the wolf’s mouth. Eventually they had the dwarves make them a magical ribbon called Gleipnir. It is assumed that Tiwaz was overtaken in popularity by Odin and Thor at some point during the Migration Age.Īccording to the Edda, at one point the gods decided to shackle the Fenris wolf (Fenrir), but the beast broke every chain they put upon him. In the Eddas, Tyr is portrayed as the son of Odin or of Hymir, but the origins of his name (Tiwaz derives from the Proto-Indo-European base dei-, deya-, didya-, meaning ‘to shine’, whence comes also such words as “deity”) actually suggest that he was indeed once considered the father of all the gods and head of the pantheon. Corresponding names in other languages are Teiws, Tiw, Ziu and Cyo, all from Proto-Germanic Tiwaz. Tyr is a Germanic god, associated with heroic glory in Norse mythology. Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god Tiwaz, or Tyr in Norse. The English word Tuesday derives from the Old English “Tiwesdwg” and literally means “Tiw’s Day”.
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If you are born on a Wednesday, however, you are full of woe. In the old nursery rhyme ‘Monday’s Child’, it is claimed that “Tuesday’s child is full of grace”. Twice! In the Thai solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means “Ashes of the Dead”.
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In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a lucky day, because in Genesis the paragraph about Tuesday contains the phrase “it was good”. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world. However, in the Greek world, it’s actually Tuesday the 13th (the day of the Fall of Constantinople) that is considered unlucky. We chose to set Friday the 13th as the release date for this album, since there were no Tuesdays available. Thus, twice graced was I, twice unlucked.