Saturn Greek God

Saturn in Roman mythology one of the most ancient of the gods, and associated in primitive times with agriculture (serere, satus, "to sow"), his wife being Ops, whose name signifies "plenty." The Saturnalia, the greatest festival of the year, answered roughly to our Christmas, and the most archaic metre in use among Italians was called Saturnian. He was usually represented as an old man bearing a sickle; the substitution in later ages of a scythe and the addition of wings and an hour-glass was due to his confusion with the Greek Kronos, connected by an etymological error with chronos, "time." Kronos was the youngest son of Uranus and Gaea, the brother and husband of Rhea, and the father of Zeus. Owing to a prophecy that he would be deposed by one of his children, he devoured them all save this last, for whom Rhea substituted a stone. Zeus fulfilled destiny by thrusting his father and the Titans into Tartarus, and putting an end to the Golden Age.