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In his groundbreaking book from 1980 ‘The Saturn Myth’ (inspired by the work of Immanuel Velikovsky) researcher David Talbott analyzed myths from ancient cultures around the world and found that they all described the same phenomenon surrounding Saturn. He found that symbolism for Saturn is the same throughout ancient Mesopotamia, India, Greece, the Americas, and Egypt, and as documented by ancient cultures, explains how there was once a celestial alignment involving Saturn that occurred thousands of years ago. Based on ancient accounts throughout the world, Talbott describes a period of “great upheaval” in celestial bodies, when Saturn, Venus, and Mars descended and aligned overhead Earth in a spectacular astronomical event dubbed the “Saturn Polar Configuration”.
As Talbott says in ‘The Saturn Myth’: “[The Saturn Polar Configuration is] the idea based on comparative mythology, that the Earth was once in close proximity, or even a satellite of the planet Saturn”. During this celestial upheaval, Mars descended from its position in the sky and formed a connection or stairway to Saturn and Venus which over time became morphed into various mythological concepts, including the heaven-sustaining giant Atlas, the Tree of Life, Mount Olympus, the Boat of Ra, and the Tower of Babel, inter alia. Various cultures around the world recorded this celestial stairway. For example, the Makirtare Indians of the Amazonian rainforest tell of a time where the hero Ahishama, identified as Mars, climbed a stairway to Heaven. Talbott calls this stairway the “Cosmic Mountain”. There are various illustrations of how this alignment may have looked here.
During this time of celestial upheaval, Saturn and the other bodies that were aligned with it went through various configurations in the sky (see the documentary series ‘Discourses on an Alien Sky’) and at one point the light from Venus behind Mars formed what appeared to be a pupil inside a triangle that Talbott associates with the All-Seeing-Eye. As Talbott explains in ‘The Saturn Myth’: “Saturn wears the band as a golden girdle, collar or crown. He dwells in it as the pupil of the All-Seeing-Eye… It’s impossible to pursue Saturn’s ancient image, without encountering the paradise of Eden, the lost Atlantis, the All-Seeing-Eye of Heaven, or the serpent-dragon of the deep”. The Saturn Polar Configuration was mostly characterized by an 8-pointed star or 8-spoked wheel and the light shining from Venus created a crescent of light under Saturn. Here are images of Saturn holding an 8-spoked wheel (as shown in ‘Discourses on an Alien Sky’). The luminous crescent of light under Saturn was morphed and anthropomorphized. The Saturn-crescent was morphed into wings, with the solar disc (Saturn) placed in the centre, such as with the Egyptian winged Kheper.
Quote from ‘The Saturn Myth’: “Of the crescent in the primary images and ancient sources present these basic forms: The horns of the bull-god or the uplifted arms of the heaven-sustaining giant [such as Atlas]. The outstretched wings of the mother goddess. But these same wings, or arms, constitute the great god’s sailing vessel, which in turn is depicted as two shining horns”. As Talbott points out in ‘The Saturn Myth’, the fundamental themes of Saturn imagery include the Saturn Ship, the All-Seeing-Eye, the two sacred pillars of Heaven, the two shining horns, and the uplifted arms of the heaven-sustaining giant, and stairways to Heaven like Jacob’s Ladder, which were all based on the same celestial alignment in the sky. Throughout this article I’ll be using the terms “Saturn Polar Configuration”, “Saturn Sun”, “Saturn Ship”, “Saturn Stargate” and “Cosmic Mountain to Saturn” interchangeably, as they represent essentially the same celestial phenomenon.
The idea of a celestial stairway, it can be shown, is simply a variation upon the widespread theme of a World Tree. As Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade has documented, such ideas have been around since the dawn of time, saying: “Ascent to the sky along the Axis of the World is a universal and archaic idea”. The same scholar goes on to summarize this theme and its attendant myths as follows: “If we try to achieve a general view of all the myths and rites just briefly reviewed, we are struck by the fact that they have a dominant idea in common: Communication between Heaven and Earth can be brought about — or could be in illo tempore — by some physical means (bridge, stairs, ladder, vine, cord, ‘Chain of Arrows’, mountain, etc).
All of these symbolic images of the connection between Heaven and Earth are merely variants of the World Tree or the Axis Mundi”. That the planet Mars was itself linked to ancient conceptions of the World Tree has been documented by other scholars in addition to Talbott. For example, in her book ‘A Dictionary of Symbols’, Joan Cirlot reports that: “The Tree of Life, when it rises no higher than the mountain of Mars is regarded as a pillar supporting Heaven”. The World Tree, also known as the Cosmic Tree, Axis Mundi, or Tree of Life, is a symbolic representation of a central axis that connects different realms, dimensions, or planes of existence within a cosmology. Esoterically, the World Tree was associated with Divine Union (becoming one with self and source) and can be seen on Masonic Tracing Boards (as shown below).
As Mars descended from its position in the sky the link that it created to Saturn and Venus formed in such a way that the planets appeared as a spectacle reminiscent of a keyhole…
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