Thursday is Thor's day, and the swap was neat: Thor, who threw thunder, replaced Jupiter, who threw lightning — hence Spanish jueves, and the 木 (wood) of Korean and Japanese, wood being Jupiter's element. The rhyme says Thursday's child “has far to go”; Thailand dresses the day in orange.
- Named after
- Thor, the thunder god (Jupiter)
- In Korean · Japanese
- 木
- wood
- Thai day color
- Orange
- Akan names
- Yaw · Yaa
- Burmese sign
- Rat (Jupiter)
- 13ths on this day
- 684
- per 400 years (4,800 months)
- Spanish · French
- jueves · jeudi
The rhyme, colors, names and signs are traditions, not predictions. The day itself is plain arithmetic.