October 6, 2025 • 30 mins
For thousands of years, Saturn has been a planet, a god, a symbol, and a warning. From the myths of Kronos Enlil and El to the black cube of modern occultism, Saturn has long represented time, decay, and control. The very limits of creation itself.
In this episode, we will explore the ancient cults of Saturn, their survival through Rome and Kabbalah, and the strange reappearance of Saturnian symbols in our modern world. From the Kaaba to the corporate cube, to the modern state of Israel.
Is Saturn the true architect of our reality?
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They called him Kronos, the devourer of his own children,
the God who ruled before the gods, the bringer of time and
the end of it. Long before Jupiter, long before
the Sky Father claimed the throne, Saturn reigned, and to
the ancients he was not a distant planet.
(00:20):
He was the black Sun that once ruled the heavens, a God of
shadow, of cycles, and of sacrifice.
Across the world his name changed, El Baal Enlil Moloch,
but the essence was the same. The old king who would not die.
Even now, his symbol endures. The black cube, the hexagon
(00:43):
storm, the scythe of time that cuts all things down.
Some say Saturn was never a planet at all, that he was a
throne, a seat of power for those who came before humanity,
the ones the Sumerians called the Annunaki.
And if that's true, then the cult of Saturn never ended.
(01:04):
It only learned how to hide in plain sight.
(01:35):
Close in, wrapped in a soft blanket of haze, Saturn is
incredibly beautiful. The sheer size of Saturn is
difficult for beings from Earth to comprehend, for Saturn is
truly gigantic. More than 650 Earths could fit
into the volume of the planet. But Saturn, unlike Earth, is
(01:57):
made not from rock but from gas.As this computer enhanced image
shows, Saturn is distinctly Oval.
The planet is flattened by the speed with which it spins.
A Saturnian day is only 10 hourslong.
Underneath a turbulent atmosphere is an immensely deep
ocean of liquid hydrogen. Deep down it is so compressed
(02:19):
that it behaves like a liquid metal.
And at the very center is a rocky core, a solid planet
rather larger than the Earth butenveloped in an ocean of liquid
gas more than 30,000 miles deep.Saturn's atmosphere is blanketed
(02:41):
in a thick layer of smog. The first problem the team
needed to solve was how to construct the complicated
computer programs that would reveal the detail underneath.
They succeeded and computer enhanced.
A previously unseen Saturn emerged from underneath the
haze. The atmosphere is a turbulent
(03:03):
place. It is patterned with spots and
vortices trailing for 10s of thousands of miles.
These are the tops of storm clouds racing across the
Saturnian sky. The Equatorial winds blow at up
to 1000 mph. Girdling the planet are the
(03:27):
rings 38,000 miles across. The names for Saturn's rings
were worked out long before any spacecraft got there.
They are based on the two most noticeable divisions in the
rings, the Cassini division and the boundary with the inner
diffuse crepe ring. So in the interest of
simplicity, the rings were called AB and C for crepe ring.
(03:56):
But as the resolution has improved on the rings, the
naming has had to be extended and has become absurdly
complicated. Everything inside the C ring is
the D ring. The very diffuse material
outside the A ring that is invisible from Earth is the E or
extended ring. Well, the very small thin ring
(04:20):
outside the A ring but inside the E ring became the F ring.
But even this complicated schemeunderestimates the sheer
complexity of Saturn's rings. This actual Voyager image has
been computer enhanced to revealall the detail in the rings.
The structure is enormously complicated.
(04:43):
The rings are so full of detail that they have been compared to
a gigantic phonograph record composed of billions of small,
independently orbiting chunks ofice.
The entire ring system is almost40,000 miles across and
surprisingly less than a mile thick.
(05:05):
Formed with Saturn more than 4000 million years ago, the
rings are a window into that ancient time when the solar
system was born. Over eons, some process seems to
have steadily marshalled the myriad swarms of billions upon
billions of boulders of ice intothe structure the rings now
(05:26):
have. In nearly every culture that
left its mark on history, there is a memory of a world that came
before this one, a time of peace, abundance, and divine
order, what the Greeks called the Golden Age.
Among the oldest surviving mythsof the Western world is the
(05:46):
story of the Titan Kronos, the ruler of time, known to the
Romans as Saturnus. He was the ruler of the Golden
Age, a time when the earth produced freely and humankind
lived without labor or want. There was no need for kings,
laws, or weapons. It was an era of balance, the
universe in perfect order. But time is a circle, not a
(06:09):
line, and every circle contains its own ending.
And Kronos was no gentle patriarch.
His very name from the Greek Kronos, means time, and time, no
matter how divine, consumes everything it creates.
As the myth unfolds, Kronos begins to devour his own
children, fearing A prophecy that one of them would overthrow
(06:30):
him. This idea, the devourer of his
offspring, was not about cannibalism.
It was about the nature of time itself.
Each generation, each creation, each civilization eventually
falls back into the jaws of the cycle that produced it.
When the Romans inherited this story, they reimagined Kronos as
(06:52):
Saturnus, a God of sewing, and harvest.
His scythe, once the weapon usedto overthrow his father Uranus,
became the farmer's sickle, the instrument of the seasons.
Every winter, when the fields died and the light faded, the
Romans celebrated Saturnalia, a festival of reversal and
renewal. Slaves dined as masters.
(07:15):
Masters served as slaves. For one week, the world turned
upside down, echoing that ancient shift from the Golden
Age to the Age of men. Yet the pattern is not confined
to Greece and Rome. Thousands of years earlier, in
the river valleys of Sumer and Akkad, we find the same cosmic
hierarchy, a ruling Father God displaced by his descendants.
(07:41):
In these stories, Anu, the Lord of the heavens, was succeeded by
Enlil, who became the administrator of Earth and the
Firmament. Enlil's own reign would one day
give way to the younger, more sympathetic Enki, master of
wisdom and creation. The succession of divine
generations mirrors the succession of ages, each ruled
(08:03):
by a more distant, more human like deity.
The pattern is striking. An elder God presides over
paradise. His rule ends abruptly, a
younger order takes his place, and the age of peace becomes the
age of Labor. It is possible the Greeks
inherited these patterns indirectly through the Near
(08:23):
East. The image of the scythe wielding
sky Father. The fall from paradise.
The rebellion of sons against fathers.
These are Mesopotamian before they were ever Hellenic.
In esoteric philosophy, the archetype of Saturn takes on an
even deeper meaning to the alchemists.
(08:44):
Saturn's metal was lead, heavy, dull and resistant to change.
Yet lead was also the starting point of transformation, the
base matter that could, through understanding, become gold.
In the Kabbalistic Tree of Life,Saturn corresponds to the third
sephira Bina understanding. Here Saturn is the architect of
(09:06):
limitation, the force that givesform to chaos.
Without limitation, creation cannot exist.
Without time, nothing can evolve.
To the ancients, the Golden Age ended not because of evil, but
because perfection cannot endure.
Every paradise collapses into experience, and every God of
(09:27):
creation becomes a God of death.Kronos, Saturn and Lil.
The names change, but the idea remains.
The universe moves in cycles of birth, decay and renewal.
The Father is overthrown by the Son, who in turn becomes the
Father, and the Wheel of Time turns once more.
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For the ancient Sumerians, the sky was a Kingdom, a vast
hierarchy ruled by the Anunnaki,the rulers of Earth and Heaven,
and among them stood one who embodied control and the weight
of judgement. This was Enlil.
In the old tablets he is called the Great Mountain, Commander of
the Winds, keeper of the Tablet of Destinies, and enforcer of
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order in Heaven. When humankind becomes too loud,
too defiant, it's Enlil who sends the flood.
He preserves the balance, even if it means destruction.
And in that balance, a familiar symbol, the planet Saturn.
To the Babylonians, Saturn became Ninurta, the son of
Enlil, a warrior who enforced his father's will.
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He carried the same traits, severity, discipline, structure
and punishment. To the Phoenicians, it was El,
the father of gods and men. In the Levant, the Saturnian
cult took a dark turn. The God El, once supreme, gave
rise to bow the Lord. Over centuries, Baal's identity
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fractured into many forms. Baal Haman, Baal Zebul, Baal
Moloch. Moloch would become one of the
most feared names in ancient scripture.
He was the devourer, the one whodemanded the offering of first
borns to ensure the continuationof power and order.
The echoes of this can be seen in the tale of Kronos.
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This connection would carry forward into countless occult
traditions. Saturn, the Black Sun, the Lord
of the material world. Moloch, the consuming fire of
civilization itself. Different names, same power, the
destroyer who maintains creationthrough sacrifice.
Even the ancient Hebrews who rejected these cults could never
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fully erase their imagery. The warnings in Leviticus and
Jeremiah against passing children through the fire to
Molech are cultural fossils preserving the memory of
Saturn's shadow in human history.
In astrology, Saturn still bearsthat same mark, the planet of
limitation, time and consequence.
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It is the great divider between the known and the unknown, the
last visible boundary of the heavens.
Some scholars have wondered if these were all just different
incarnations of the same ancientarchetype.
In the Enuma Elish, it's not hard to see this transformation.
The elder gods are cast down, the younger gods rise.
(12:24):
The heavens are divided into zones, A cosmic order built from
rebellion and sacrifice. Maybe that's why even now, the
ancient sphere of Saturn lingersin our collective memory.
Because somewhere deep in the past, Saturn wasn't just a light
in the sky, it was the symbol ofa God who once ruled the world.
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The ancients gave Saturn many names, the Lord of Time, the
Devourer, the Black Sun. But one symbol followed it
through every age, the cube, sixsides, 6 directions, and a
hidden center. It is the geometry of form
itself, stable, eternal and unyielding.
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And nowhere else in the solar system is that geometry more
literal than on Saturn. In 1981, Voyager sent back
images that stunned the world atSaturn's North Pole.
A perfect six sided storm, a hexagon thousands of miles wide,
locked in perpetual rotation. The hexagon is immense, with
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sides approximately 9000 miles long, big enough to fit the
Earth inside it twice. Scientists called it a standing
wave, a product of turbulent jetstreams, but to those who study
the symbols of old, it was something else, a signature, a
cosmic mark. That the architecture of Saturn,
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and perhaps reality itself, obeys The same hidden geometry
found in sacred design in Kabbalah Saturn is Bina
understanding. She is the great architect, the
feminine aspect that takes the formless light of creation and
gives it shape. Bina builds the walls of
existence, the boundaries of matter, the rules of time.
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The ancients saw in Saturn's rings the image of limitation
and in its hexagon, the symbol of structure itself.
Saturn does not create life. Saturn defines its limits.
The black cube reappears in one of the world's holiest sites,
the Kaaba of Mecca. Pilgrims circle it as planets
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around their star in a ritual that has echoed for more than
1000 years to the esoteric initiate.
This is not coincidence. The cube is the dwelling place
of divinity, the same pattern repeated from heaven to earth.
Saturn rules time, and time devours all.
In alchemy he is Negredo, the black stage of dissolution,
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death before rebirth. To enter the cube is to face the
limit of existence. To transcend it is to escape
time itself. From Masonic temples to city
plazas, the black cube persists.Architects, artists and
occultists return to it, consciously or not, as if drawn
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to an ancient code. Some call it a symbol of
control, the prison of the mind,the material world that keeps
the spirit bound. Others call it the key, the
reminder that enlightenment begins with confronting
confinement. Some esoteric schools go
further. They claim Saturn is not just a
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symbol of time and death, but a gate.
In this view, the hexagon at itspole is not a storm, but a
mechanism, A6 sided portal that recycles consciousness back into
material form. This is the so-called soul trap
theory, the idea that souls are drawn back into the cycle of
birth and death through a Saturnian gateway.
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It appears in fragments of Gnostic texts, in whispers of
mystery schools, and in modern fringe philosophy.
Whether metaphor or reality, theimage of Saturn as a cosmic
warden fits the same archetype seen in every age, the devourer
of his children, the black cube that both shelters and
imprisons. In the Hebrew prophecies, there
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is a warning about a star. Amos calls it Cayun.
Centuries later, when the text travels into Greek, the name
shifts to Refan or Renfan. In the New Testament, Acts 743
recalls it as the star of your God Renfan, carried by the
people as an idol. What was that star?
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Ancient readers did not use our modern word planet.
They spoke of wandering stars, the bright bodies that move
against the fixed constellations.
Among them, one was slow, heavy with meaning, and always
associated with law, fate and consequence.
That star was Saturn. Many scholars see the line from
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Kyun to Rifan or Rifan as a translation trail that points to
Saturn. The name likely echoes older
Mesopotamian and West Semitic terms for the planet that later
survived in regional languages. When Stephen says the people
carried the star of your God Remphan, he is not speaking
about a distant sun. He is naming A deified planet a
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cult of the sky. In Amos 526, the prophet also
names Malak. Acts repeats the pairing, the
Tabernacle of Malak and the starof your God Remphan.
Two currents converge here. Moloch, the consuming fire of
the city. Remfon, the Saturnian star of
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authority and time. Together they mark a forbidden
worship power taken from the heavens and enthroned on Earth.
Place that warning beside what we see above Saturn today.
At the North Pole, A6 sided storm turns without rest, A
hexagon vast enough to swallow continents.
For the modern eye it is fluid dynamics.
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For the symbolic eye, it is geometry, The same six that
defines the cube and the star forms used in sacred diagrams.
In the old language of myth, Saturn remains the architect of
limits. A brief note for clarity.
R.E.M. Phan is not a different God from
Kiyun. It is the Greek way of writing
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the older name, and the star is not a specific drawn emblem in
these texts. It is the planet as an idol, a
wandering power treated as a God.
So the star of R.E.M. Phan is Saturn, remembered in
scripture, a planetary throne woven into warning, a reminder
that when men worship time and power, time and power devour
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them in return. The star of Rifan then wasn't a
symbol of covenant with the divine, but rather devotion to
Saturn across Babylon, Egypt andCanaan.
Saturn was both revered and feared.
The six pointed star later became known as the Seal of
Solomon and came to represent this dual nature, Divine wisdom
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bound within the laws of matter.The hexagram, like Saturn
itself, governs structure and control.
When the modern state of Israel adopted the six pointed star for
its flag. It was not reviving a symbol
from the Mosaic Age. The menorah was Israel's ancient
emblem, the seven branched lightof spirit.
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The star emerged much later, shaped through Kabbalistic
mysticism, Hermetic alchemy, andeven medieval magic.
This evolution raises uncomfortable questions.
The same hexagram used in occultsigils, Masonic lodges, and
Saturnian orders is now the symbol of a modern nation, one
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deeply entangled in global finance, technology and
surveillance. It may be coincidence, but if
symbols carry energy, if they transmit intention across time,
then the star of Refon never stopped shining.
It merely changed meaning. Perhaps that's the hidden irony,
that the very symbol raised in the name of faith may in truth
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represent the ancient God of thematerial veil, the Keeper of
cycles, the architect of control.
The worship of Saturn never truly disappeared.
It evolved, hiding behind new symbols, new languages, and new
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institutions. What began as offerings to a
dark God of time became rituals of commerce, architecture, and
control. Today, that same energy
manifests in systems of finance,technology and surveillance, the
mechanisms that bind humanity toa constant rhythm of consumption
and obedience. The black cube, Saturn's ancient
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symbol, now appears everywhere. At the Kaaba in Mecca, the
pilgrims circle the cube, a ritual older than Islam itself,
some say, echoing pre Abrahamic veneration of celestial deities.
In corporate logos. Black cube structures rise in
city centers from Manhattan to Melbourne, monuments to the God
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of material order. Even in names, Black Rock,
Blackstone, Saturn Corporation, the pattern repeats black, the
color of Saturn's domain, the color of the void, of authority,
of power, centralized and absolute.
In esoteric traditions, the cuberepresents matter, limitation,
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and imprisonment, the spirit confined in the density of the
material world. To escape the cube is to awaken,
to transcend the boundaries of control.
But those who rule through the cube feed upon its geometry.
They build their empires upon it.
Secret societies, occult orders,and global think tanks, whether
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knowingly or not, operate withinthe Saturnian paradigm.
They uphold the cult of structure, hierarchy, and time.
Their temples are skyscrapers, their altars are boardrooms, and
their offerings are human attention and labor.
We live inside its rings. The cult doesn't wear robes
anymore. It wears suits.
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It doesn't chant in temples. It calculates in markets.
It doesn't burn offerings. It monetizes souls.
During the early 20th century, esoteric orders within Nazi
Germany and Hitler's inner circle revived this symbol as
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part of their myth of Aryan cosmic origin.
The Schwarzes Sauna or Black Sunrepresented a hidden source of
energy, an unseen God at the center of all reality.
A reference to the ancient Saturnian Old Sun of myth that
ruled before our present age. After the 3rd Reich fell, the
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Black Sun symbolism went underground, finding new life in
post war esoteric societies, occult lodges and in modern
conspiracy theories. Saturn became the shadow Sun, a
hidden generator behind human consciousness, radiating
control. One of the most widely
circulated modern interpretations came from David
(24:27):
Icke, who described Saturn as a cosmic transmitter, a planetary
broadcasting tower beaming frequencies across the solar
system. In his view, the Moon acts as a
relay dish, reflecting those frequencies into Earth and
shaping human perception. Whether 1 takes this literally
or symbolically, it shows a far older pattern, the Gnostic model
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of the Archons, where lower celestial rulers project false
realities to keep the divine spark imprisoned in matter.
Saturn, the Lord of Time and theKeeper of the Cage.
Many ancient traditions spoke oftwo sons, one visible, 1 hidden.
This hidden sun was Saturn. The visible Sun became the
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successor, the Liberator. The black cube is Saturn's
ultimate symbol. Matter crystallized, time
solidified into geometry. Across the world, this geometry
recurs. Yet the cube's ultimate secret
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is its transformation. When unfolded, it becomes the
cross, the central symbol of Christianity.
This raises another unsettling question.
Did the church absorb the Saturnian code?
Saturday, Saturn's day, became the sacred Sabbath.
Saint Peter Petros, the Rock, the stone upon which the church
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was built, and the cross itself,an unfolded cube meant to
symbolize the release of the divine from material bondage.
It's as if Christianity took thearchitecture of Saturn and
simply reversed it, turning the symbol of imprisonment into a
symbol of redemption. As we enter the new age of the
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Black Sun, the symbolism circlesback.
Humanity builds its own artificial Suns, glowing
screens, simulated light, time measured in loops through
transhumanism. People chase Saturn's oldest
promise, immortality through control of time.
Machines compress reality, just as the cube once did.
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The ancient God of limits now reappears in silicon form, the
demiurge reborn as an algorithm.The question that still lingers
is not whether Saturn still rules, but whether we've begun
to recreate his Kingdom ourselves.
Are we still living in the rain of the Black Sun?
Perhaps Saturn never fell, we just learned how to build his
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shadow. The black cube, the ringed
planet, the God who devours his own.
We worship him without knowing it.
We serve order without question,and every tick of the clock
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still whispers the same ancient name.
Join us next time on the Anunnaki Connection.
They called him Kronos, the devourer of his own children,
the God who ruled before the gods, the bringer of time and
the end of it. Long before Jupiter, long before
the Sky Father claimed the throne, Saturn reigned, and to
the ancients he was not a distant planet.
(00:20):
He was the black Sun that once ruled the heavens, a God of
shadow, of cycles, and of sacrifice.
Across the world his name changed, El Baal Enlil Moloch,
but the essence was the same. The old king who would not die.
Even now, his symbol endures. The black cube, the hexagon
(00:43):
storm, the scythe of time that cuts all things down.
Some say Saturn was never a planet at all, that he was a
throne, a seat of power for those who came before humanity,
the ones the Sumerians called the Annunaki.
And if that's true, then the cult of Saturn never ended.
(01:04):
It only learned how to hide in plain sight.
(01:35):
Close in, wrapped in a soft blanket of haze, Saturn is
incredibly beautiful. The sheer size of Saturn is
difficult for beings from Earth to comprehend, for Saturn is
truly gigantic. More than 650 Earths could fit
into the volume of the planet. But Saturn, unlike Earth, is
(01:57):
made not from rock but from gas.As this computer enhanced image
shows, Saturn is distinctly Oval.
The planet is flattened by the speed with which it spins.
A Saturnian day is only 10 hourslong.
Underneath a turbulent atmosphere is an immensely deep
ocean of liquid hydrogen. Deep down it is so compressed
(02:19):
that it behaves like a liquid metal.
And at the very center is a rocky core, a solid planet
rather larger than the Earth butenveloped in an ocean of liquid
gas more than 30,000 miles deep.Saturn's atmosphere is blanketed
(02:41):
in a thick layer of smog. The first problem the team
needed to solve was how to construct the complicated
computer programs that would reveal the detail underneath.
They succeeded and computer enhanced.
A previously unseen Saturn emerged from underneath the
haze. The atmosphere is a turbulent
(03:03):
place. It is patterned with spots and
vortices trailing for 10s of thousands of miles.
These are the tops of storm clouds racing across the
Saturnian sky. The Equatorial winds blow at up
to 1000 mph. Girdling the planet are the
(03:27):
rings 38,000 miles across. The names for Saturn's rings
were worked out long before any spacecraft got there.
They are based on the two most noticeable divisions in the
rings, the Cassini division and the boundary with the inner
diffuse crepe ring. So in the interest of
simplicity, the rings were called AB and C for crepe ring.
(03:56):
But as the resolution has improved on the rings, the
naming has had to be extended and has become absurdly
complicated. Everything inside the C ring is
the D ring. The very diffuse material
outside the A ring that is invisible from Earth is the E or
extended ring. Well, the very small thin ring
(04:20):
outside the A ring but inside the E ring became the F ring.
But even this complicated schemeunderestimates the sheer
complexity of Saturn's rings. This actual Voyager image has
been computer enhanced to revealall the detail in the rings.
The structure is enormously complicated.
(04:43):
The rings are so full of detail that they have been compared to
a gigantic phonograph record composed of billions of small,
independently orbiting chunks ofice.
The entire ring system is almost40,000 miles across and
surprisingly less than a mile thick.
(05:05):
Formed with Saturn more than 4000 million years ago, the
rings are a window into that ancient time when the solar
system was born. Over eons, some process seems to
have steadily marshalled the myriad swarms of billions upon
billions of boulders of ice intothe structure the rings now
(05:26):
have. In nearly every culture that
left its mark on history, there is a memory of a world that came
before this one, a time of peace, abundance, and divine
order, what the Greeks called the Golden Age.
Among the oldest surviving mythsof the Western world is the
(05:46):
story of the Titan Kronos, the ruler of time, known to the
Romans as Saturnus. He was the ruler of the Golden
Age, a time when the earth produced freely and humankind
lived without labor or want. There was no need for kings,
laws, or weapons. It was an era of balance, the
universe in perfect order. But time is a circle, not a
(06:09):
line, and every circle contains its own ending.
And Kronos was no gentle patriarch.
His very name from the Greek Kronos, means time, and time, no
matter how divine, consumes everything it creates.
As the myth unfolds, Kronos begins to devour his own
children, fearing A prophecy that one of them would overthrow
(06:30):
him. This idea, the devourer of his
offspring, was not about cannibalism.
It was about the nature of time itself.
Each generation, each creation, each civilization eventually
falls back into the jaws of the cycle that produced it.
When the Romans inherited this story, they reimagined Kronos as
(06:52):
Saturnus, a God of sewing, and harvest.
His scythe, once the weapon usedto overthrow his father Uranus,
became the farmer's sickle, the instrument of the seasons.
Every winter, when the fields died and the light faded, the
Romans celebrated Saturnalia, a festival of reversal and
renewal. Slaves dined as masters.
(07:15):
Masters served as slaves. For one week, the world turned
upside down, echoing that ancient shift from the Golden
Age to the Age of men. Yet the pattern is not confined
to Greece and Rome. Thousands of years earlier, in
the river valleys of Sumer and Akkad, we find the same cosmic
hierarchy, a ruling Father God displaced by his descendants.
(07:41):
In these stories, Anu, the Lord of the heavens, was succeeded by
Enlil, who became the administrator of Earth and the
Firmament. Enlil's own reign would one day
give way to the younger, more sympathetic Enki, master of
wisdom and creation. The succession of divine
generations mirrors the succession of ages, each ruled
(08:03):
by a more distant, more human like deity.
The pattern is striking. An elder God presides over
paradise. His rule ends abruptly, a
younger order takes his place, and the age of peace becomes the
age of Labor. It is possible the Greeks
inherited these patterns indirectly through the Near
(08:23):
East. The image of the scythe wielding
sky Father. The fall from paradise.
The rebellion of sons against fathers.
These are Mesopotamian before they were ever Hellenic.
In esoteric philosophy, the archetype of Saturn takes on an
even deeper meaning to the alchemists.
(08:44):
Saturn's metal was lead, heavy, dull and resistant to change.
Yet lead was also the starting point of transformation, the
base matter that could, through understanding, become gold.
In the Kabbalistic Tree of Life,Saturn corresponds to the third
sephira Bina understanding. Here Saturn is the architect of
(09:06):
limitation, the force that givesform to chaos.
Without limitation, creation cannot exist.
Without time, nothing can evolve.
To the ancients, the Golden Age ended not because of evil, but
because perfection cannot endure.
Every paradise collapses into experience, and every God of
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creation becomes a God of death.Kronos, Saturn and Lil.
The names change, but the idea remains.
The universe moves in cycles of birth, decay and renewal.
The Father is overthrown by the Son, who in turn becomes the
Father, and the Wheel of Time turns once more.
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For the ancient Sumerians, the sky was a Kingdom, a vast
hierarchy ruled by the Anunnaki,the rulers of Earth and Heaven,
and among them stood one who embodied control and the weight
of judgement. This was Enlil.
In the old tablets he is called the Great Mountain, Commander of
the Winds, keeper of the Tablet of Destinies, and enforcer of
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order in Heaven. When humankind becomes too loud,
too defiant, it's Enlil who sends the flood.
He preserves the balance, even if it means destruction.
And in that balance, a familiar symbol, the planet Saturn.
To the Babylonians, Saturn became Ninurta, the son of
Enlil, a warrior who enforced his father's will.
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He carried the same traits, severity, discipline, structure
and punishment. To the Phoenicians, it was El,
the father of gods and men. In the Levant, the Saturnian
cult took a dark turn. The God El, once supreme, gave
rise to bow the Lord. Over centuries, Baal's identity
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fractured into many forms. Baal Haman, Baal Zebul, Baal
Moloch. Moloch would become one of the
most feared names in ancient scripture.
He was the devourer, the one whodemanded the offering of first
borns to ensure the continuationof power and order.
The echoes of this can be seen in the tale of Kronos.
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This connection would carry forward into countless occult
traditions. Saturn, the Black Sun, the Lord
of the material world. Moloch, the consuming fire of
civilization itself. Different names, same power, the
destroyer who maintains creationthrough sacrifice.
Even the ancient Hebrews who rejected these cults could never
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fully erase their imagery. The warnings in Leviticus and
Jeremiah against passing children through the fire to
Molech are cultural fossils preserving the memory of
Saturn's shadow in human history.
In astrology, Saturn still bearsthat same mark, the planet of
limitation, time and consequence.
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It is the great divider between the known and the unknown, the
last visible boundary of the heavens.
Some scholars have wondered if these were all just different
incarnations of the same ancientarchetype.
In the Enuma Elish, it's not hard to see this transformation.
The elder gods are cast down, the younger gods rise.
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The heavens are divided into zones, A cosmic order built from
rebellion and sacrifice. Maybe that's why even now, the
ancient sphere of Saturn lingersin our collective memory.
Because somewhere deep in the past, Saturn wasn't just a light
in the sky, it was the symbol ofa God who once ruled the world.
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The ancients gave Saturn many names, the Lord of Time, the
Devourer, the Black Sun. But one symbol followed it
through every age, the cube, sixsides, 6 directions, and a
hidden center. It is the geometry of form
itself, stable, eternal and unyielding.
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And nowhere else in the solar system is that geometry more
literal than on Saturn. In 1981, Voyager sent back
images that stunned the world atSaturn's North Pole.
A perfect six sided storm, a hexagon thousands of miles wide,
locked in perpetual rotation. The hexagon is immense, with
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sides approximately 9000 miles long, big enough to fit the
Earth inside it twice. Scientists called it a standing
wave, a product of turbulent jetstreams, but to those who study
the symbols of old, it was something else, a signature, a
cosmic mark. That the architecture of Saturn,
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and perhaps reality itself, obeys The same hidden geometry
found in sacred design in Kabbalah Saturn is Bina
understanding. She is the great architect, the
feminine aspect that takes the formless light of creation and
gives it shape. Bina builds the walls of
existence, the boundaries of matter, the rules of time.
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The ancients saw in Saturn's rings the image of limitation
and in its hexagon, the symbol of structure itself.
Saturn does not create life. Saturn defines its limits.
The black cube reappears in one of the world's holiest sites,
the Kaaba of Mecca. Pilgrims circle it as planets
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around their star in a ritual that has echoed for more than
1000 years to the esoteric initiate.
This is not coincidence. The cube is the dwelling place
of divinity, the same pattern repeated from heaven to earth.
Saturn rules time, and time devours all.
In alchemy he is Negredo, the black stage of dissolution,
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death before rebirth. To enter the cube is to face the
limit of existence. To transcend it is to escape
time itself. From Masonic temples to city
plazas, the black cube persists.Architects, artists and
occultists return to it, consciously or not, as if drawn
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to an ancient code. Some call it a symbol of
control, the prison of the mind,the material world that keeps
the spirit bound. Others call it the key, the
reminder that enlightenment begins with confronting
confinement. Some esoteric schools go
further. They claim Saturn is not just a
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symbol of time and death, but a gate.
In this view, the hexagon at itspole is not a storm, but a
mechanism, A6 sided portal that recycles consciousness back into
material form. This is the so-called soul trap
theory, the idea that souls are drawn back into the cycle of
birth and death through a Saturnian gateway.
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It appears in fragments of Gnostic texts, in whispers of
mystery schools, and in modern fringe philosophy.
Whether metaphor or reality, theimage of Saturn as a cosmic
warden fits the same archetype seen in every age, the devourer
of his children, the black cube that both shelters and
imprisons. In the Hebrew prophecies, there
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is a warning about a star. Amos calls it Cayun.
Centuries later, when the text travels into Greek, the name
shifts to Refan or Renfan. In the New Testament, Acts 743
recalls it as the star of your God Renfan, carried by the
people as an idol. What was that star?
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Ancient readers did not use our modern word planet.
They spoke of wandering stars, the bright bodies that move
against the fixed constellations.
Among them, one was slow, heavy with meaning, and always
associated with law, fate and consequence.
That star was Saturn. Many scholars see the line from
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Kyun to Rifan or Rifan as a translation trail that points to
Saturn. The name likely echoes older
Mesopotamian and West Semitic terms for the planet that later
survived in regional languages. When Stephen says the people
carried the star of your God Remphan, he is not speaking
about a distant sun. He is naming A deified planet a
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cult of the sky. In Amos 526, the prophet also
names Malak. Acts repeats the pairing, the
Tabernacle of Malak and the starof your God Remphan.
Two currents converge here. Moloch, the consuming fire of
the city. Remfon, the Saturnian star of
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authority and time. Together they mark a forbidden
worship power taken from the heavens and enthroned on Earth.
Place that warning beside what we see above Saturn today.
At the North Pole, A6 sided storm turns without rest, A
hexagon vast enough to swallow continents.
For the modern eye it is fluid dynamics.
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For the symbolic eye, it is geometry, The same six that
defines the cube and the star forms used in sacred diagrams.
In the old language of myth, Saturn remains the architect of
limits. A brief note for clarity.
R.E.M. Phan is not a different God from
Kiyun. It is the Greek way of writing
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the older name, and the star is not a specific drawn emblem in
these texts. It is the planet as an idol, a
wandering power treated as a God.
So the star of R.E.M. Phan is Saturn, remembered in
scripture, a planetary throne woven into warning, a reminder
that when men worship time and power, time and power devour
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them in return. The star of Rifan then wasn't a
symbol of covenant with the divine, but rather devotion to
Saturn across Babylon, Egypt andCanaan.
Saturn was both revered and feared.
The six pointed star later became known as the Seal of
Solomon and came to represent this dual nature, Divine wisdom
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bound within the laws of matter.The hexagram, like Saturn
itself, governs structure and control.
When the modern state of Israel adopted the six pointed star for
its flag. It was not reviving a symbol
from the Mosaic Age. The menorah was Israel's ancient
emblem, the seven branched lightof spirit.
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The star emerged much later, shaped through Kabbalistic
mysticism, Hermetic alchemy, andeven medieval magic.
This evolution raises uncomfortable questions.
The same hexagram used in occultsigils, Masonic lodges, and
Saturnian orders is now the symbol of a modern nation, one
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deeply entangled in global finance, technology and
surveillance. It may be coincidence, but if
symbols carry energy, if they transmit intention across time,
then the star of Refon never stopped shining.
It merely changed meaning. Perhaps that's the hidden irony,
that the very symbol raised in the name of faith may in truth
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represent the ancient God of thematerial veil, the Keeper of
cycles, the architect of control.
The worship of Saturn never truly disappeared.
It evolved, hiding behind new symbols, new languages, and new
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institutions. What began as offerings to a
dark God of time became rituals of commerce, architecture, and
control. Today, that same energy
manifests in systems of finance,technology and surveillance, the
mechanisms that bind humanity toa constant rhythm of consumption
and obedience. The black cube, Saturn's ancient
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symbol, now appears everywhere. At the Kaaba in Mecca, the
pilgrims circle the cube, a ritual older than Islam itself,
some say, echoing pre Abrahamic veneration of celestial deities.
In corporate logos. Black cube structures rise in
city centers from Manhattan to Melbourne, monuments to the God
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of material order. Even in names, Black Rock,
Blackstone, Saturn Corporation, the pattern repeats black, the
color of Saturn's domain, the color of the void, of authority,
of power, centralized and absolute.
In esoteric traditions, the cuberepresents matter, limitation,
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and imprisonment, the spirit confined in the density of the
material world. To escape the cube is to awaken,
to transcend the boundaries of control.
But those who rule through the cube feed upon its geometry.
They build their empires upon it.
Secret societies, occult orders,and global think tanks, whether
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knowingly or not, operate withinthe Saturnian paradigm.
They uphold the cult of structure, hierarchy, and time.
Their temples are skyscrapers, their altars are boardrooms, and
their offerings are human attention and labor.
We live inside its rings. The cult doesn't wear robes
anymore. It wears suits.
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It doesn't chant in temples. It calculates in markets.
It doesn't burn offerings. It monetizes souls.
During the early 20th century, esoteric orders within Nazi
Germany and Hitler's inner circle revived this symbol as
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part of their myth of Aryan cosmic origin.
The Schwarzes Sauna or Black Sunrepresented a hidden source of
energy, an unseen God at the center of all reality.
A reference to the ancient Saturnian Old Sun of myth that
ruled before our present age. After the 3rd Reich fell, the
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Black Sun symbolism went underground, finding new life in
post war esoteric societies, occult lodges and in modern
conspiracy theories. Saturn became the shadow Sun, a
hidden generator behind human consciousness, radiating
control. One of the most widely
circulated modern interpretations came from David
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Icke, who described Saturn as a cosmic transmitter, a planetary
broadcasting tower beaming frequencies across the solar
system. In his view, the Moon acts as a
relay dish, reflecting those frequencies into Earth and
shaping human perception. Whether 1 takes this literally
or symbolically, it shows a far older pattern, the Gnostic model
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of the Archons, where lower celestial rulers project false
realities to keep the divine spark imprisoned in matter.
Saturn, the Lord of Time and theKeeper of the Cage.
Many ancient traditions spoke oftwo sons, one visible, 1 hidden.
This hidden sun was Saturn. The visible Sun became the
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successor, the Liberator. The black cube is Saturn's
ultimate symbol. Matter crystallized, time
solidified into geometry. Across the world, this geometry
recurs. Yet the cube's ultimate secret
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is its transformation. When unfolded, it becomes the
cross, the central symbol of Christianity.
This raises another unsettling question.
Did the church absorb the Saturnian code?
Saturday, Saturn's day, became the sacred Sabbath.
Saint Peter Petros, the Rock, the stone upon which the church
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was built, and the cross itself,an unfolded cube meant to
symbolize the release of the divine from material bondage.
It's as if Christianity took thearchitecture of Saturn and
simply reversed it, turning the symbol of imprisonment into a
symbol of redemption. As we enter the new age of the
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Black Sun, the symbolism circlesback.
Humanity builds its own artificial Suns, glowing
screens, simulated light, time measured in loops through
transhumanism. People chase Saturn's oldest
promise, immortality through control of time.
Machines compress reality, just as the cube once did.
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The ancient God of limits now reappears in silicon form, the
demiurge reborn as an algorithm.The question that still lingers
is not whether Saturn still rules, but whether we've begun
to recreate his Kingdom ourselves.
Are we still living in the rain of the Black Sun?
Perhaps Saturn never fell, we just learned how to build his
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shadow. The black cube, the ringed
planet, the God who devours his own.
We worship him without knowing it.
We serve order without question,and every tick of the clock
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still whispers the same ancient name.
Join us next time on the Anunnaki Connection.
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