Saturn
Saturn is the Roman agricultural god and Golden Age king, later symbolizing time, fate, death-rebirth, rational constraint, and alchemical lead awaiting transformation.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Roman mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Saturn is Roman mythology
why
Saturn is the Roman god of agriculture, identified with the Greek Cronus — perhaps, the sources suggest, because their two consorts Ops and Rhea were equated first in myth and the husbands simply followed them across.