From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved
"Volume III - Libra and its Decan Constellations"

Libra and its Decan Constellations.

Saturn

    On the Denderah Zodiac standing behind Virgo, Saturn is seen as a male figure with the Egyptian waas scepter and a face like a swine or bovine-like animal.
    On his head is a crescent-shaped horn.
    In front of his head is a very small hieroglyphic of a hawk (Hor) standing on a bull (ka).
    Since Saturn is seen as a netjeru in human form, therefore it represents a spiritual understanding.
    This hawk on the bull as one source claims would represent the name Hor-ka, Hor, planet, where ka means slow, thus slow planet.    One source claims that Hor-ka, means "Horus-bull."
    Another calls it Hor-ka-Pet.
    Kneph, or Ka, means slow, or heaviness.

 

    Seen in the Coptic as Refe, Refan, Remphan, which means restoring.    Note the similarity to the Egyptian Reshef (Reshpu).

    On ESNE Plate 79, we can see Saturn located between Libra and Virgo.

    On the Grand Temple the horned deity may be Saturn located above Decan 6-7, between Libra and Virgo.    Note that the hawk (Hor or Aquila) is perched on an object (possibly a bull, ka) directly behind the head of Saturn.

 

    One source claims that Saturn is "recognized by the ancients as the ‘Ancient of Days.’    His (Saturn) position between Libra and Virgo defines a Last Judgment."    Saturn is connected to Time, and "marks the day of the last judgment."

 

    Saturn is seen as:

    Egyptian Ma-a-iet, not to be confused with Ma'at as in (Maae't)
    Egyptian Seb, as seen below similar to Sabbatei.

 

    Hebrew Shabhtai, or Kaiwan (Amos 5:26), meaning "steadfast," this star in Syrian and Arabic is a divinity, i.e. Sakkuth, which equals Ninib, Babylonian planet -god.
    Hebrew Sabbatei, means resting, as in Sabbath, dwelling.

 

    In the Sumerian it is MES,
    Other Sumerian names are:
       (LU.BAD).SAG.USH, the "slow moving",
       d.SAG.USH d.UD found as KUSCH
       and Meskiag-Kasch(er).
       Slow moving as compared to Venus fast moving.

 

    Other names are:
    Arabic Zohal, which means hiding, sheltering.
    Zoroastrian Bondahish equating to Kevan.
    Persian Kivon
    Associated with the Hebrew kiyyan or Chiun, for more on this see the information at Chiun.

 

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Each of these are connected to the constellation Libra,
Lupus, Draco (Corona Borealis), Crux, Saturn
Decan 13.

    This file last updated on February 21, 2004, June 18, 2005, and January 10, 2008.

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