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  Saturn (mythology) - MSN Encarta
Saturn was the husband of Ops, goddess of plenty.
Besides Jupiter, who was ruler of the gods, Saturn's children also included Juno, goddess of marriage; Neptune, god of the sea; Pluto, god of the dead; and Ceres, goddess of the grain.
In art Saturn is usually shown bearded, carrying a sickle or an ear of corn.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556441/Saturn_(mythology).html   (199 words)

  
  Saturn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest.
Saturn is the least dense of the planets.
Saturn's interior is similar to Jupiter's consisting of a rocky core, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer and a molecular hydrogen layer.
library.thinkquest.org /20104/Planets/saturn.htm   (349 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Mythica: The celestial bodies
In Greek mythology Ananke was the personification of unalterable necessity, or fate.
In Greek mythology Tethys was the personification of the fertile ocean; wife of Oceanus.
In Greek mythology Dysnomia is a daughter of Eris and a daemon of lawlessness.
www.pantheon.org /miscellaneous/celestial_bodies.html   (1607 words)

  
 Saturn
In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture.
Saturn's interior is similar to Jupiter's consisting of a rocky core, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer and a molecular hydrogen layer.
Saturn's outermost ring, the F-ring, is a complex structure made up of several smaller rings along which "knots" are visible.
www.nineplanets.org /saturn.html   (1430 words)

  
 The Mythology of Saturn
Saturn, called Cronus by the Greeks, was, at the dawn of the Ages of the Gods, the Protector and Sower of the Seed and his wife, Rhea, (called Ops by the Romans) was a Harvest Helper.
Saturn often stands for the father in the natal chart, as does the however, with Saturn it usually indicates problems with the father.
Saturn, therefore, represents our limitations in power and control {by his rulership and its coming to an end), in confinement or isolation (by his banishment to Tartarus) and capacity (as Saturn's placement as a planet, which until modern times was the boundary of our Solar System).
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SATURN (MYTHOLOGY) An ancient Roman god of agriculture, Saturn was later identified with the Greek god CRONUS, who fled to Italy after his dethronement by Zeus as ruler of the universe.
Saturn Divorcee wearing 7 rings from 7 failed marriages conceiving 18 children yet still cosmetically adorned in wait for whichever husband may happen to return daring the bachelor to come along and experience this bride and her pregnancies before her insatiable loneliness with its responsibilities forces him to move on.
Saturn's mass is 5.686 X 10 to the power of 26 kg (12.54 X 10 to the power of 26 lb), or 95.147 times the Earth's.
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 Saturn Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Saturn is flattened at the poles, due to a fast rotation on its axis.
Saturn is a gas planet, like Jupiter, and is large enough and far enough away from the Sun to retain its original primitive gases.
Saturn is well known for it's beautiful ring system, which are composed of millions of particles and large chunks of ice and snow.
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 CosmicQuest @ The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Saturn is visibly flattened (oblate) when viewed through a small telescope; its equatorial and polar diameters vary by almost 10 percent (74,901 miles vs. 67,563 miles).
Saturn is the least dense of the planets; its specific gravity (0.7) is less than that of water.
Saturn's interior is hot (12,273 F at the core), and it radiates more energy into space than it receives from the sun.
www.childrensmuseum.org /cosmicquest/fieldguide/saturn.html   (1110 words)

  
 The Solar System: Saturn
Saturn, the second most massive planet, and the most distant planet known to the ancients, is one of the most beautiful sites in the Solar System.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second largest in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers (74,130 miles).
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second largest in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers.
www.cdli.ca /CITE/ss_saturn.htm   (529 words)

  
 SATURN : PART 2
Saturn fall from grace was made worst by Jupiter, who expelled him from Olympus, and sent him across the sea to Latinium (Italy).
It is for this reason Saturn was greatly venerated and adored by Rome, being worshipped in the Temple of Saturn on Capitoline Hill.
Saturn oversees this cycle which is marked by the passage of time and of a season for all living things.
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 Welcome to the Planets Version
Centaur -- In Greek mythology, a being with the head, arms, and torso of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
Iapetus -- In Greek mythology, a son of Uranus and Gaea.
In Greek mythology, god of the sky, mate of the goddess of the Earth, and father of the Titans.
pds.jpl.nasa.gov /planets/special/glossary.htm   (2887 words)

  
 Road to Saturn
Thus Saturn was the only deity who was born his own son; who lived on Earth; who died and descended to the underworld; who rose again from the dead and finally ascended into heaven.
Saturn's disappearance was then explained as the clouding of the central orb by the ensuing debris.
It was said that Saturn made his acquaintance with the southern constellations while the star of the south rose to occupy Saturn's vacated post.
www.aeonjournal.com /articles/road_to_saturn/road_to_saturn.html   (12205 words)

  
 Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest from the sun.
In Roman mythology Saturn is the god of the harvest.
Saturn is the least dense of all the planets, its specific gravity is less than that of water.
library.thinkquest.org /C0110561/outspace/solsys/planets/Saturn/Saturn.htm   (386 words)

  
 Saturn (mythology) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Chinese and Japanese culture designate the planet Saturn with "Earth Star." This is based on Five Elements which was traditionally used to classify natural elements.
Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity of agriculture.
He was identified in classical antiquity with the Greek deity Cronus, and the mythologies of the two gods are commonly mixed.
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 Saturn | World of Scientific Discovery
In mythology, Saturn was the god of agriculture; the connection between that entity and the planet Saturn remains obscure, unlike the connection between Mars, the god of war, for example, and the so-called Red Planet, Mars.
Saturn is a flattened appearance, and Grimaldi's ratio reflected this: the ratio of Saturn's polar diameter to its equatorial diameter was about 8:9.
It was not until 1932 that astronomers proved that the planet's cylindrical appearance was an optical illusion caused by its striking rings, the brightness of the equatorial zone of Saturn, and the shading of the polar areas.
www.bookrags.com /research/saturn-wsd   (1040 words)

  
 Quia - Class Page - Sailor Moon Mythology
Saturn Myth Origin: Roman Character: Sailor Saturn Mythology The Roman god of agriculture concerned with the sowing of the seeds.
Saturn is the one who controls agriculture, and what grows or dies it connects with Sailor Saturn's powers of life, and death.
Artemis is the goddess of the wilderness, the hunt and wild animals, and fertility (she became a goddess of fertility and childbirth mainly in cities).
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 Sailor Saturn and Sailor Pluto: Debunking the "Mix Up" Myth: Section Two of Four
In the painting, Cronus is called by his Roman name (Saturn) and he's depicted as a monstrous ogre ripping and tearing at the flesh of a (somewhat precocious) child.
For hundreds of years, the planet Saturn has thought to be a malefic planet, one of the bad guys in the solar system.
In the manga, Sailor Saturn states that she will bring the ruin because "everything was set up by fate." She's the one who mustn't awaken because her presence means the ruin to a world, and yet she will awaken because her arrival was said to be preordained.
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 Roman Mythology - Crystalinks
Thus the archaic Roman "mythology", at least concerning the gods, was made up not of narratives, but rather of interlocking and complex interrelations between and among gods and humans.
Early mythology about Roman "history"In contrast to the dearth of narrative material about the gods, the Romans had a rich panoply of quasi-historical legends about the foundation and early growth of their own city.
Thus, Janus and Vesta guarded the door and hearth, the Lares protected the field and house, Pales the pasture, Saturn the sowing, Ceres the growth of the grain, Pomona the fruit, and Consus and Ops the harvest.
www.crystalinks.com /romemythology.html   (2099 words)

  
 Saturn thru the Ages
Saturn is the second largest planet and sixth outward from the sun, about 800 million miles from Earth.
Saturn's festival, the Saturnalia, was the worship of Saturn—and oddly the Sun—to which Saturn is equated in various guises and many countries.
They investigate mythology as it is related to ancient global catastrophes, the effects on chronology of various ancient cultures, possible orbital changes of planets and electrical effects in the solar system and universe.
www.12x30.net /saturn.html   (2754 words)

  
 Saturn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Early observations of Saturn were complicated by the fact that the Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings every few years as Saturn moves in its orbit.
It was not until 1659 that Christiaan Huygens correctly inferred the geometry of the rings.
Saturn's rings remained unique in the known solar system until 1977 when very faint rings were discovered around Uranus (and shortly thereafter around Jupiter and Neptune).
www.saturn-soft.net /Study/Solar/Saturn.htm   (148 words)

  
 ASTROLOGY - Stars Foretell, Daily Horoscope, Astrology, Hindu Astrology, Numerology, Personal readings, Palmistry ...
The position of the planets and the sun and moon in the twelve houses at the moment of birth is decisive.
They are divided into day-stars (Saturn, Jupiter, and also the sun) and night-stars (the moon, Mars, and Venus); Mercury belongs both to day and nightThe planets are farther divided by their genders.
While, the sun, Jupiter, and Mars are masculine; the moon and Venus are considered feminine, Mercury belonging again to both classes.
www.starsforetell.com /Content-2/Astrology.html   (688 words)

  
 Cronus - Wikinfo
Cronus ("crow", also spelled Cronos and Kronos but perhaps not to be confused with Chronos), in Greek mythology (Saturn in Roman mythology), was the leader and (in some myths) the youngest of the first generation of Titans.
In Roman mythology, Saturn's wife was sometimes said to be Ops and not Magna Mater, Rhea's equivalent.
In Roman mythology, the Saturnalia was in honor of Saturn.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Saturn_(god)   (2551 words)

  
 Old Father Time
Saturn (referred to by the Greeks as Cronus or Kronos) was the Roman Deity of Time and an ancient Italian Corn God known as the Sower.
In mythology, he was the son of Uranus (Heaven or Sky-Father) and Gaea (Earth-Mother) and the youngest of the Twelve Titans.
Saturn's emasculation of Uranus now made Saturn King of the Titans and the rotation of the generations was thereby effected.
www.novareinna.com /festive/oft.html   (1162 words)

  
 Mythography | The Roman God Saturn in Myth and Art
In Roman mythology, Saturn was a god of fertility and agriculture.
As a king of Latium, Saturn was responsible for the remarkable achievements of this legendary time, a time which was thought of as the Golden Age of ancient Italy.
Indeed, the Saturnalia is an appropriate festival to Saturn, for it appears to evoke the prosperity and peace of Rome's mythical Golden Age.
www.loggia.com /myth/saturn.html   (367 words)

  
 Astrology on the Web: Saturn
Saturn's most distinctive astronomical feature is that magnificent set of rings, but Saturn is also the centre of a swirling mini-solar-system with dozens of small moons.
In mythology, grim Saturn castrated and overthrew his father, Uranus, but he also devoured his own children, for it was prophesied that one of them would destroy him.
The first Saturn return (around age 28-30) marks the transition from the Phase of Youth to the Phase of Maturity; the second from the Phase of Maturity to the Phase of Wisdom.
www.astrologycom.com /saturn.html   (677 words)

  
 Saturn
Early observations of Saturn were complicated by the fact that the Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings every few years as Saturn moves in its orbit, because of this a low resolution image of Saturn changes drastically.
Like Jupiter, Saturn is about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium with traces of water, methane, ammonia and "rock", similar to the composition of the Solar Nebula from which the solar system was formed.
Saturn's rings are extraordinarily thin, though they're 250,000 km or more in diameter they're no more than 1.5 kilometers thick.
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 Welcome to Saturn Return.net
When Saturn moves back to the place it was the moment you were first born, you are metaphorically reborn, but not before you are put through a series of tests.
When you’re born, Saturn occupies a certain space in your chart (the basic astrological thumbprint of your soul.) Consider this a roadmap to your inner and outer world.
Saturn is probably not you’re A-list planet, as he is connected with such pleasantries as dentistry, divorce, broken bones, hair loss, authority figures, and aging.
www.saturnreturn.net /what_is.html   (1670 words)

  
 About the Planets - Saturn
Saturn is the sixth farthest planet from the Sun and the second largest.
You can see Saturn at night with the naked eye and it is easy to identify because it doesn't "twinkle" like stars do.
Saturn has 18 known moons which is more than any other planet.
www.abc.net.au /children/space/planets/saturn.htm   (98 words)

  
 Saturn Articles
Chinese and Japanese culture designate the planet Saturn with "Earth Star." This is based on Five Elements which was traditionally used to classify natural elements.
In Greek mythology, Chronos in pre-Socratic philosophical works is said to be the personification of time.
It was the outermost planet god/deity, and was considered the seventh of the seven heavenly objects that are visible with the naked eye.
www.crystalinks.com /saturnmyth.html   (563 words)

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