the germanic gods have affected elements of every day western life in most countries that speak germanic languages. an example is some of the names of the days of the week. the days were named after roman gods in latin (named after "sun, moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus, saturn"). the names for tuesday through friday were replaced with germanic versions of the roman gods. in english, saturn was not replaced. saturday is named after the sabbath in german, and is called "washing day" in scandinavia.