Riddle Me Beasts

If you've a ferociously good idea, then stomp of the title and scrawl it below.


A time to marry Scottish beasts,

To Odin dedicate the feasts

The time the planet closest sun

Or star that's filled with waters run

The Japanese know it the same,

All this is in my name.

'What's in a name?'
'A huge amount, especially if you take the name from different tongues!'

 

Riddle Answer Wednesday

 

Riddle Explanation
a time to marry Scottish beasts - wed nes, or Ness, day.

to Odin dedicate the feasts the time the planet closest sun - from Old English Wōdnesdæg or day of Woden or Odin, a borrowed translation from dies Mercurii, day of Mercury. The Germanic God Odin was interpreted as Mercury.

or star that's filled with waters run the Japanese know it the same - in Japanese suiyoibi means water day, as Mercury is the water star.