#romanian myhtology

[artbyanca]

Sfanta Luni, eldest lady of the week, guide and patron of beginnings.

Luni(Monday) is the eldest sister of the 7 ladies that personify each day of the week in Romanian mythology. Depicted as either a very old woman or a strong man* holding the keys to heaven, she is believed to point the way for souls both when they enter this world and the next. As the world began on her day, she is the patron of all beginnings, so she could be either the luckiest lady or the worst one depending on how things go for you on her day. If you find joy on Monday, joy will follow you all week, but if you start with sorrow that’s how you’ll be all week. She is also a day associated with angels when fasting gives strenght to your angel to help you with your struggles and if you fasted all Mondays they will have enough strenght to carry you to the gates of heaven when you die.

*grain of salt there cause I only found one source for her also being a man that claimed she's always a man along with the other two days with masculine aspects, Marti and Joi which can't be true cause both have specific feminine deities attached to them.

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