Wednesday is Woden's day — Odin in Norse — matched with Mercury, which is why Spanish says miércoles and Korean and Japanese write 水, water, Mercury's element. The rhyme is famously unkind to Wednesday (“full of woe”), but Myanmar gives it a special place: the only day split in two, with its own pair of elephants.
- Named after
- Woden, or Odin (Mercury)
- In Korean · Japanese
- 水
- water
- Thai day color
- Green
- Akan names
- Kwaku · Akua
- Burmese sign
- Elephant — tusked before noon, tuskless after
- 13ths on this day
- 687
- per 400 years (4,800 months)
- Spanish · French
- miércoles · mercredi
The rhyme, colors, names and signs are traditions, not predictions. The day itself is plain arithmetic.