Common Words Inspired by Polytheism

The influence of the Roman Empire is everywhere. The many gods of the Latin world influence everything because Latin spawned other languages. Latin and Greek mythology gave us the names of the planets and the months. But deities from polytheistic religions came into our language from all over. Our days of the week come from Norse mythology in several languages, and Roman mythology in other languages. Everyday words have religious roots in other languages that we never knew about. Dr. Erica Brozovsky takes us on a tour of how the names of deities ended up in our modern English.