🗲 202402037 ☿ Wednesday 100aDaytill100k 🗲
Good Morning
Good Morning, Stackers!
Welcome to the ~health zone. We are so glad to see you and hear your type written words with our eyes. Today is Wednesday and that means it's the middle of the week and the planet Mercury at some point was recognized by early man as the closest object to the Sun. Hence we get Mercury as a messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. In French our clue is the word for Wednesday is Mercredi and in Spanish it is miércoles.
Because we speak English and English comes from Old German and really is a branch of Indo-European languages we call the 3rd day of the week, Wednesday and it is named after Odin or Woton.
Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the third day of the week. In countries which have Friday as their holiday, Wednesday is the fifth day of the week. In countries which use the Sunday-first convention, and in both the Islamic and Jewish calendars, Wednesday is the fourth day of the week.
In English, the name is derived from Old English Wōdnesdæg and Middle English Wednesdei, 'day of Woden', reflecting the religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, the English equivalent to the Norse god Odin. In many Romance languages, such as the French mercredi, Spanish miércoles or Italian mercoledì, the day's name is a calque of Latin dies Mercurii 'day of Mercury'. -- Wednesday Wikipedia
Now what is interesting about Odin and Wednesday in general is that Mercury, Odin and Buddha are part of a process of awakening, knowledge and enlightenment. Where does the Buddha come in? Well, in India, Wednesday is also the day of Mercury which is called Budhvara!
Odin (/ˈoʊdɪn/;[1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was also known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Uuôden, in Old Dutch as Wuodan, in Old Frisian as Wêda, and in Old High German as Wuotan, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Wōðanaz, meaning 'lord of frenzy', or 'leader of the possessed'. -- Oden Wikipedia
As a closing not on Wednesday I would like to point out that what is in Wikipedia is not necessarily accurate. It is a good place to start but it should be regarded as one source out of many that one should use in the search for truth. For instance, Budha and Buddha are noted to be not the same. One is a "god" (deva) and one is a human who became enlightened. On the exoteric this is a closed case but in the esoteric it is completely wrong.
We look at the meanings of words here and we look at the etymology. Bud in Sanskrit is "mind that is awake" like a flower bud it is getting ready to bloom. There is no accident in the use of the lotus flower to represent awakening. The lotus grows in mud and becomes a very beautiful flower. In western mysticism the rose is a symbol for this. The rose is thorny but beautiful and fragrant. More of the masculine and feminine. From the darkness come the light.
Finally let's get back to Odin, who has one eye. This one eye is the eye of divine insight. This one eye is the center between the two hemispheres of the Left / Red (Mars) / Masculine and Right / Blue (Venus) / Feminine. As the myth of Odin goes, one of his eyes was gouged out. AS many myths have a brutal quality which allow for memorizing stories we can remember that this character who was skilled in many aspects and was a teacher had only one eye that made him see clearly.
In India we see plenty of examples where the "third eye" is significant in symbols. The third eye has been connected to the pineal gland which is located exactly between the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex. This has been illustrated with the Eye of Horus below.
My Progress Today
Today I tried something new and I managed to get 100 Squats, 100 pushups and 100 situps in 45 minutes. I also did my normal hatha yoga breath exercises and stretching before to get flexible and wake my slumbering beast up. My New program I am calling the 100 step to 50 and return to zero.
I have a chart here: #415227
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So I start with 1 of each, then 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. That's my ascent of the mountain. Then I return home by 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 of each respectively. In between I am breathing from my abdomen through my nose. Being able to get all of this done in the morning by 0500 is great because I can rest for a longer period. I was sweating like crazy by the time I got halfway and I could look forward to the end getting shorter and shorter.
Finally after I was finished I wasn't sure that I didn't loose count around my back 3 so I did a victory lap of 10 squats, 10 push-ups and 10 sit-ups. I had a lot of fun!
Shout out to @grayruby
If you are wondering what the #100aDayTill100k is about please refer to @grayruby and the post: 100 a day until 100k
Roll Call:
I've got some new names to the list by request so I would like to shout out, also to all my fellow fitness Stackers!
@2d
@9
@benwehrman
@BitcoinIsTheFuture
@ekzyis
@fred
@garyKrause_
@gnilma
@grayruby
@jgbtc
@kr
@kurszusz
@nickamoto
@orthwyrm
@ProofOfWorkFitness
@Public_N_M_E
@quark
@riberet19
@TwoLargePizzas
@Undisciplined
@WeAreAllSatoshi
Sources:
- Mercury Planet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)
- Indo-European - https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/lex
- बुधवार - Budhvara -https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0
- Wednesday - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday
- Odin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
- Budha - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budha
- Right and Left Brain - https://www.centurymedicaldental.com/left-and-right-hemisphere-of-the-brain/
- Third Eye - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye
- https://theangelsofatlantis.com/the-pineal-gland/