Saturnism Past and Present

Saturn was once a god, a powerful deity that ruled through chaos, force and death. His symbol is today the crossed h, but was originally the star and crescent. Apparently, the ancients knew that Saturn was a ringed planet. The horns of a bull or a goat was often used to symbolize him. So was the black cube, the hexagon visible on Saturn's north pole.

Typical thinking associated with Saturnism is that force trumps reason, that chaos is above order, that death is above life. It also preaches that good things come to those that impose their will on others through force, and that things that are unequal cannot be equal in value. Men are above women, rulers are above the ruled, the entitled are above the common people.

These lines of thinking are common even today, and it is not uncommon to come across Saturn symbols in both present day religions and in politics. Saturnism as an ideology is by no means dead. It prevails and even dominates certain religions. The most prominent ones being:

1. Statism - the belief that the state has a right to rule by force
2. Islam - the belief that force, chaos and death are superior to reason, order and life
3. Satanism - the belief that good things come to those who impose their will on others *

These are religions where Saturnistic thinking are dominant. Examples of religions where Saturnistic thinking is prominent, but not dominant are:

1. Hinduism - the belief in a cast system of segregation
2. Judaism - the belief that one people is above all other people
3. Catholicism - the belief in divine hierarchy, setting some people to rule others

The list can no doubt be extended. Unless a religion is completely free of hierarchy and force, they can be said to be partially Saturnistic. However, to say that all religions are equally bad just because there are traces of Saturnism in just about every one of them is a gross simplification.

* Satanism is such a strange new religin that it is hard to define. However, it appears to be popular among politicians and other people who long to dominate their fellow men, and is therefore included in this list, even if it is a minuscule religion in size.