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1. Tuesday

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   Etymology and Historical Significance
   The assignment of the second day of the week to the Germanic deity Tiw mirrors the naming convention in Roman tradition, where the corresponding day was dies Martis (Day of Mars), the Roman god of war. This correlation is not purely arbitrary; linguistic analysis suggests that pre-Christian Germanic tribes often syncretized their martial deity, Tiw, with the [Latin equivalent](/entries/latin-la…