I'm curious with the title of this anime,
[神様のいない日曜日](https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E3%81%95%E3%81%BE%E3%81%AE%E3%81%84%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E6%97%A5%E6%9B%9C%E6%97%A5)。Why
is it title such, and not 神様いないの日曜日？

As I understand it this follows the X の Y rule where X owns Y, right? If it is
written as such wouldn't that make it God's non-existant Sunday instead of
Godless Sunday (the Anime is known as Sunday without God in English).

So, once again, why is it 神様のいない日曜日 and not 神様いないの日曜日?
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Why is it 神様のいない日曜日 and not 神様いないの日曜日?
神様のいない日曜日 is one of my favorite animes!

Well, 神様のいない日曜日 is the same in meaning as 神様 **が** いない日曜日.

In _relative clauses_ , we can use の instead of が as a subject marker. (If you
want to know why, this question may be of help: [Why can の and が both mark
subjects in relative
clauses?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/28200/why-
can-%E3%81%AE-and-%E3%81%8C-both-mark-subjects-in-relative-clauses))

Here, 神様のいない is a _relative clause_ that modifies 日曜日.

So this の is not of possession, and does not have the nuance of "X owns Y."

Since the meaning of 神様がいない is "God does not exist", the meaning of 神様のいない日曜日
(== 神様がいない日曜日) is "Sunday on which God does not exist".

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By the way, your attempt "神様いないの日曜日" makes no sense.

First, 神様いない is not grammatical. As 神様 is a subject here, it should be 神様がいない.

When you want to add information of the form of a complete sentence (like
神様がいない) to a noun, you can't use の. To do that, make it a relative clause. By
doing so you get the phrase 神様がいない日曜日.
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