SATURN

It's the sixth planet in the solar system. It was discovered between Galileo (1610), Christian Huygens (1659), and James Clerk (1859). It is the only one with a visible system of rings from our planet and has a great number of satellites, the major one of which, Titan is the only moon of the Solar System with an important atmosphere.

It owes his name to the Roman god of the time (Stopwatches, in the Greek mythology). There is the youngest of the first generation of Titans, who precedes that of the Olympian gods.
Saturn is a deity of the crop, supervisor of cultures as the wheat, and of the nature, the agriculture and the progression of the time in relation with the human beings in general.

The legend of Saturn

In Latin mythology, Saturn is the son of Uranus and Gaia. Saturn helps Gaia (Earth) to take revenge on Uranus which annihilated all his children; armed with a sickle, he emasculated his father (of the testicles fallen into the sea born Venus, Aphrodite) Having become master of the world married Rhea (Earth), his sister, and in turn Saturn devouring his children is to avoid being overthrown by them.
So Rea sees as her children are disappearing: Juno (Hera), Hades (Pluto), Neptune (Poseidon) ...

Finally brings the world to Jupiter (Zeus), hides the child and turn tricks Saturn, giving him a stone wrapped in a diapers to devour it. Later, Jupiter forces Saturn to regurgitate all children who had swallowed and chains him with the Titans.

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