#Saturnus

[arcane-offerings]

Illustration of Saturn from Flores astrologiae (Flores Albumasaris), 1488. Printed by Erhard Ratdolt in Augsburg, Germany. Library of Congress.

[illustratus]

Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya

[nyxshadowhawk]

Have you ever wondered what characters from Greek mythology would look like in a medieval AU? Wonder no more:

In the first picture are Hercules on the top left, Menelaus and Helen in the middle, Paris underneath them, and Hector and Agamemnon underneath Hercules. In the second picture are Janus, Saturn, Picus, and Faunus on the right, and Juno on the left.

(This is the Nuremberg Chronicle, a fifteenth-century German incunabulum.)

[erenn52]

The Moon, Jupiter & Saturnus 🌙🪐

[babywitchofthesouth]

Digital Altar: Saturn 🪐

Saturn, sixth planet from the Sun, you who revolves along a high and long orbit, you who governs ambition and authority, duty and discipline, responsibility and reality. By your name and your path, I ask you guide me through life. By your rings and your sphere, I ask you shape me to be strong. Saturn, I pray to you by your being to help me in this that I have asked of you.

Picrew Altar Sketch by Camade

[nora-yoko]

[lovesinistra]

[deathlessathanasia]

"Kronia were celebrated on Rhodes on the sixth of Metageitnion (text: Pedageitnion). Porphyry (On Abstinence 2.54) tells of humans being sacrificed to Kronos during that festival. Later, a condemned criminal was kept alive until the Kronia, and then taken outside the gates to Aristobule’s statue, given wine to drink and slaughtered. From the date it has been concluded that this typical example of a scapegoat ritual springs from the Artemis cult and became associated with Kronos only later. This may quite well be true, although it is dangerous to build a case on a chance temporal coincidence. Important, however, is the fact that elsewhere as well, Kronos is associated specifically with bloody and cruel human sacrifices; the ancient attitude is summarised by Sophocles (Andr. fr. 126 Radt) as follows: ‘Of old there is a custom among barbarians to sacrifice humans to Kronos.’ Clearly this is about barbarians, as are other testimonia. Best known are the Phoenician-Punic human sacrifices, which are supposed to have been introduced by a former king, El/Kronos. The Carthaginian god in whose huge bronze statue children were burnt to death also was identified with Kronos/Saturnus. It was said that in Italy and Sardinia, too, humans had been sacrificed to Saturnus — probably just as legendary a fact as Istros’ (FGrH 334 F 48) remark about Crete that the Kouretes in ancient times sacrificed children to Kronos, or the later reports by Christian authors about human sacrifices in Greece itself.

Surveying all these data, one is not surprised that in places Kronos stands as a signum for human sacrifice, bloody offering and even cannibalism. Side by side with the above-mentioned text by Sophocles stands, for instance, Euhemerus, view (Ennius Euhemerus 9.5) that Kronos and Rhea and the other people living then used to eat human flesh. A more negative and gruesome picture hardly can be imagined. Therefore, the appearance of another, again utterly contrasting one is all the more striking. According to Empedocles, and in Pythagorean circles generally, Kronos is the very symbol of unbloody sacrifice. The Athenian cake sacrifice is a good illustration of this, and Athenaeus 3,11 OB informs us that by way of offering the Alexandrians used to put loaves of bread in Kronos’ temple, from which everybody was allowed to eat. This peaceful and joyous aspect crops up in an almost hyperbolic form in the Attic celebration of the Kronia.

Apart from a short mention by Demosthenes 24.26, with mention of the date (12 Hekatombaion = ± August), we have two somewhat more detailed reports. Plutarch Moralia 1098B: ‘So too, when slaves hold the Kronia feast or go about celebrating the country Dionysia, you could not endure the jubilation and din.’ Macrobius Saturnalia 1.10.22:Philochorus [FGrH 328 F 97] says that Cecrops was the first to build, in Attica, an altar to Saturn and Ops, worshiping these deities as Jupiter and Earth, and to ordain that, when crops and fruits had been garnered, heads of households everywhere should eat thereof in company with the slaves with whom they had borne the toil of cultivating the land, for it was well pleasing to the god that honour should be paid to the slaves in consideration of their labour. And that is why we follow the practice of a foreign land and offer sacrifice to Saturn with the head uncovered, (tr. P. V. Davies). … Finally, the Roman poet Accius (Ann. fr. 3 M, Bae.; Fr. poet. lat. Morel p. 34) adds that most Greeks, but the Athenians in particular, celebrated this festival: ‘in all fields and towns they feast upon banquets elatedly and everyone waits upon his own servants. From this had been adopted as well our own custom of servants and masters eating together in one and the same place.’"

- H. S. Versnel, Greek Myth and Ritual: The Case of Kronos, in Interpretations of Greek Mythology

[poisonappleprintshop]

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[arcane-offerings]

Saturn, from Christine de Pizan's "L'Épître Othéa," attributed to the Master of the Cité des Dames and workshop, c.1410- c.1414, Harley 4431 f. 100v, British Library, London.

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Made a playlist for my Good Omens angel OC/the Actual Obscure Angel that I'm hyperfixated on. They're the Archangel of Saturn (look them up. just google it. I dare you.)

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen- Lindsey Stirling

Alive (Pegboard Nerds Remix)- Krewella

You're So Creepy- Ghost Town

Say Amen (Saturday Night)- Panic!At The Disco

Under The Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers

Planetary (GO!)- My Chemical Romance

Electric Fury- Psycrain

Rock Me Amadeus- Falco

Helena (So Long And Goodnight)- My Chemical Romance

Electric Daisy Violin- Lindsey Stirling

Leyenda- Vanessa-Mae

Lavender Bones- Stand Atlantic

Nobody- Mitski

Only Time- Enya

Vampire Money- My Chemical Romance

Everything Black- Unlike Pluto, Mike Taylor

Masquerade- Lindsey Stirling

Bring Me To Life- Evanescence

Everytime We Touch- Cascada

Rock N' Roll (Will Take You To The Mountain)- Skrillex

Famous Last Words- My Chemical Romance

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)- My Chemical Romance

First of the Year (Equinox)- Skrillex

Time Lapse- TheFatRat

High On Mel (No Comment Remix)- Astrix, No Comment

[tippytheclown1]

Saturnus Denmark Band photos and their 2000 LP "Martyre" Melodic, gothic, death/doom, simply excellent. A real work of art this one is, highly recommended.

[lexstellaris]

Daily draw - 5/5/23 - Sacred Rebels Oracle (Alana Fairchild)

35 - Conscious Connections

Given I drew this card again, I'm going to take some time to sit with the healing it offers and some of the wisdom in the card meaning, and see if I can figure out why it's come up again. Maybe I'll do a deeper post on that later, but I have some spellwork to plan and Baphomet/Saturnus has been instructing me, so. I'd better get to that work.

[smallangstdemon]

Hi! I'm looking for either videos of presentation of the planets of our solar system or good articles about it. It doesn't have to be exhaustive, but I'd appreciate it to be rather complete and centered about the planet themselves, not the researches and discovery.

Thanks for any help!