The splitting up of the 7 days is something the ancient Romans did, and they named each day of the week after the 7 sacred lunaries or the 7 naked eye planets (wanderers) Moon, Mercury, Venus, The Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. Each day of the week was named after one of the 7 heavenly bodies which was seen to rule over it. Sunday - The Sun Monday - The Moon Tuesdays - Mars Wednesday - Mercury Thursday - Jupiter Friday - Venus Saturday - Saturn Each day has connections through the different languages which are represented around the world. Each language has a different story which follows the naming of the day, but also has similarities.

How many phases of the Moon are there? In between these, the Moon goes through multiple stages of partial illumination during its different phases. These are the banana-shaped crescent Moon, the D-shaped quarter Moon and the almost complete gibbous Moon. Finally, each phase is also named after its position in the full 29.5 day cycle based on whether it is growing (waxing) or shrinking (waning). The eight phases of the Moon in order are: • new Moon • waxing crescent Moon • first quarter Moon • waxing gibbous Moon • full Moon • waning gibbous Moon • last quarter Moon • waning crescent Moon. The full, quarter and new Moons are all the instants in time when the Moon is exactly fully, half or not at all illuminated from our perspective on Earth. The crescent and gibbous Moons each last approximately a week.