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Saturn is a translation of the Greek Kronos and in Roman
mythology, and is the god of agriculture.
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The names we use today for the planets are Latin god-name equivalents
of the earlier Greek god-names, which the Greeks originally matched
to the god-names of the pioneering stargazers of antiquity, the
Babylonians. The distance of Saturn made it seem slow and cold,
qualities enhanced by the character of the god Saturn (the Greek
Kronos) who was identified with Chronos or 'Old Father Time', who
was relentless and cold in charity. Saturn is a translation of the
Greek Kronos and in Roman mythology, and is the god of agriculture.
Saturn's reign was referred to as the Golden Age. His temple was
at the foot of the Capitoline and housed the Roman treasury, the
decrees of the Senate, and the records of the law. The associated
Greek god, Kronos, was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the father
of Zeus (Jupiter). Saturn is the root of the English word Saturday,
the seventh day of the week.
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