Was Saturn the Sun in ancient times?

Saturn’s Golden Age

The age that man later called the Age of Kronos (Saturn) was remembered with nostalgia as an age of bliss. References to the Age of Kronos in the ancient lore are very numerous.

Hesiod tells of

" A golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Kronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil: miserable age rested not on them . . . The fruitful earth unforced bare them fruit abundantly and without stint. They dwelt in ease and peace upon their lands with many good things. . . ."

Was Saturn the Sun in ancient times? Or seen in our ancient skies as a Sun like object?

The Saturn Theory and the Thunderbolts Electric Universe theory suggest that Saturn may have been our first Sun or was at least associated as a Sun.

In many ancient records, Saturn was referred to as the sun. For example, the ancient Babylonian texts describe Saturn as the “ghost of the sun.” Maya believed that the sun that we see today was different in former times.

The Saturn Myth (1980) is a book by David Talbott, which proposes that ancient myths and tradition describe the planet Saturn as the the dominant celestial body in the sky, appearing “fixed at the north celestial pole”. A number of other writers, sometimes called Saturnists, have described similar scenarios, which have collectively been described as “The Saturn Theory” (or Saturn Model, or Saturn Thesis).

The book examines similar tales in comparative mythology and states that thousands of years ago, earth was a former satellite of Saturn, and that a vastly different solar system alignment existed. This proto-Saturn, devoid of its current rings, was much closer to the sun.

According to the author, a major cataclysm disfigured the previous planetary configuration and unleashed major chaos on a formerly advanced human civilization.

This astronomical catastrophe ended a previous Golden Age in which humans, previously living in an advanced civilization, witnessed drastic changes in their sky.

Survivors of this cataclysm later retold this story to their descendants in the form of religious archetypes, which represents planetary bodies. book examines similar tales in comparative mythology and states that thousands of years ago, earth was a former satellite of Saturn, and that a vastly different solar system alignment existed. This proto-Saturn, devoid of its current rings, was much closer to the sun.

According to the author, a major cataclysm disfigured the previous planetary configuration and unleashed major chaos on a formerly advanced human civilization.

This astronomical catastrophe ended a previous Golden Age in which humans, previously living in an advanced civilization, witnessed drastic changes in their sky.

Survivors of this cataclysm then later retold this story to their descendants 

In the book “Saturn, the ancient god of the sun,” author David Talbott notes an obvious mishmash between Saturn and the Sun in ancient times and that this mishmash could not be a coincidence. Talbott argues that different figures throughout history deliberately “distinguished Saturn from our Sun, calling it the best sun, the original sun, the central sun.”

In his book, Talbott contends that:

“.. the evidence assembled in the following pages indicates that within human memory extraordinary changes in the planetary system occurred: in the earliest age recalled by man the planet Saturn was the most spectacular light in the heavens and its impact on the ancient world overwhelming. In fact Saturn was the one “great god” invoked by all mankind. The first religious symbols were symbols of Saturn..."

Saturn was named after the Roman god of agriculture and harvest. While the planet may have gotten its name from its golden color, like a field of wheat, it also had to do with its position in the sky.

 David Talbott wrote in his book, The Saturn Myth:

“Saturn did not move on its present remote orbit, but ruled as the central sun around which the other heavenly bodies visually revolved”

(1984) David Talbott and Ev Cochranewrote:

“It is understood that Velikovsky believed the Earth and Saturn to have once moved in close proximity, with the Earth perhaps revolving as a Saturnian moon. .. The Saturn Myth .. proposes that Saturn – fixed at the celestial pole – loomed massively overhead, a central sun venerated by all mankind. Evidence is presented there for a Saturnian “polar configuration” as the source of early civilization’s dominant symbols. “

Velikovsky believed and argued that Jupiter and Saturn were most likely part of the binary system of stars. Because of the outstanding position of Saturn in the ancient world, as Velikovsky claimed, Saturn was probably closer to Earth and more of Jupiter at the time.

Saturn caused the Great Flood

Did the Great Flood actually occur – an already open question for today’s disputes. According to Velikovsky’s research, he did not just happen, but also through the fault of Saturn and his giant space neighbor Jupiter.

In the above-mentioned book Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky argued that Saturn and Jupiter came very close to each other, being on orbital paths that differed from the current ones. And then it was:

“Suppose that two bodies, such as Jupiter and Saturn, come close together, causing severe perturbations and powerful tidal effects in the atmosphere. Being a system of binary (double) stars, they could interact to such an extent that they would lead to a stellar explosion. ”

Velikovsky suggested that such an event placed the planets in the places that we see today, and launched a chain of events that resulted in a flood on the Earth.

Peoples that remembered early tragedies enacted in the sky by the heavenly bodies asserted that Jupiter drove Saturn away from its place in the sky. Before Jupiter (Zeus) became the chief god, Saturn (Kronos) occupied the celestial throne. In all ancient religions the dominion passes from Saturn to Jupiter.