History of Time by Holford-Strevens Leofranc;

Author:Holford-Strevens, Leofranc;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Published: 2005-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

15. Saturn and his day. The hours of Saturday (beginning on the right with the daytime hours) are marked N(ocens), ‘harmful’, if under Saturn or Mars; b(ona), ‘favourable’, if under Jupiter or Venus; c(ommunis), ‘neutral’, if under Sun, Mercury, or Moon. The text underneath reads: ‘When it is Saturn’s day or his hour by night or day, all things become dark and difficult; those who are born will be in danger; he who disappears will not be found; he who takes to his sickbed will be in danger; stolen goods will not be recovered.’

This planetary week would spread east to India and China, and west to Rome, where it attained written record in the reign of Augustus (sole ruler 31 BC-AD 14), under whom the poet Tibullus mentions ‘the day sacred to Saturn’ and an inscription presents the eight-letter A-H cycle of the nundinum accompanied by a seven-letter A-G cycle for the week (see Figure 16).

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