Father Zeus-Satya in the Ancient Pantheons of the Greeks and Romans, was Saturn.
In this Name, the root Sat which is related to the Truth, also has survived intact. SAT-ya, SAT-urn, even in the recent SAT-an. Not only Saturn, but to not overcomplicate this topic, this is for another topic and Zeus's New Updated Hieratic Page.
Little is known about Saturn even today, because Saturn's mysteries were actually the top tier mysteries for the Ancient World. Saturn's concepts basically extend to the farthest places where matters of Spirituality are concerned, albeit also Saturn, is mysteriously the planet of the material realm, all at the same time.
Saturn, in contrast to any false statements generated later on by those who have no knowledge of spirituality, was actually considered the Patron of the Golden Age of Humanity. This knowledge is fully verifiable and proven even to this day.
The Golden Age, was an age of the highest level of spirituality, abundance of wealth of human resources, happiness and peace – a solid description of “Heaven on Earth". Further, during the Golden Age, human beings and Gods did live in a connected civilization, where toil, ignorance and lesser behaviors were unknown to Man. That much is well known from a historical and spiritual standpoint.
There were no wars on that time, famines, or any catastrophes and even nature was extremely friendly and beneficial to mankind. All worked in a form of harmony that is almost impossible to comprehend at the current historical interval we have. As such Hesiod has stated, the "Heroes of the Golden Age" are worshiped as "Demons" in the later ages; they guide with much love human beings, in order to again re-attain this state, as Patrons of our species.
We will also, eventually, get there again. There is also a secret here; the return to this state, will be even better than the last time. But that is something I won't derail the topic over...
Now, a lot of misinformation has been written about Saturn, despite of the information that is pretty clear in Ancient Sources, revealing that Saturn was ruling humanity during the most beautiful of all aeons, the Golden Age. There are no actual real negative statements of Saturn by any higher end philosopher or spiritualist. Most of these errant statements about Saturn being malefic, come way later on.
Typically, Saturn is also associated with Cronus. Cronus, in the Ancient Greek meaning, is the concept of Time. Without the concept of Time, there would be no universe and everything would be incoherent. If there is any difference between anything in the universe, and not a "singularity", where everything never was born out of anything, it's because of the concept of Time. This concept of Time is necessary for life, existence and aeons to unfold. Without it there is no creation, no multiplicity, no generation and also, no improvement of anything.
Without the notion of Time, everything is in a state of "stasis", or the lack of time. Creation or development of any sort, requires the formal physics notion of time in order to exist for living beings. This state of where nothing exists, is called nothingness, including also the lack of division, multiplicity and time. Chronos as a concept [Time], is where there is a division of this infinity, into the concept of actual creation.
Humanity, as expected, is easy to be misguided over false pretext. Most of the human beings are lazy, they want to not develop. Everyone likes reaping the fruit, but nobody likes to sow it. Therefore, any notion of Saturn, which is a planet that is focused on development, reaping only after you have sowed, and increasing your power to develop you (even via force) is considered "evil" and "malefic".
That very concept however, is the concept of...Evolution, Growth, Prosperity, Development and Creation in itself. It's the part that everyone has to hate, but simultaneously exactly what any living being has to necessarily follow in order to develop.
The construction of the universe, based on the topic of time, brings with itself another topic: Evolution. Without time, nothing can really evolve. But in the context of a division based on Time, then anything can evolve; evolution moves along the axis of Time.
In the context of all living organisms and beings, Saturn is the power that pushes all beings to become developed, evolve and spiritual themselves. As Saturn enforces a strict notion of Justice, the math here is very simple: Do what is required for evolution and survival = thrive, grow, based on the timeline. Do not do this = receive punishment.
This punishment or this reward, extends all the way from: Totally going back into non existence, all the way into becoming an Immortal God. The choices in regard to where one must strive toward, are related on how a being will decide to use their existence and time. Improvement in any area of life, is also strongly correlated to this very same topic.
Now, humans of course, in the context of their lives, also experience "luck" and other phenomena that are related to Jupiter. These represent bounds of luck and so on. Yet, when these are all fundamentally studied in-depth, these always are rooted to some very intricate process of sowing the proper seeds, once upon a time; that lead you in a way that you might not understand, into the reception of certain benefits.
These laws represent also the case of Ultimate Justice. While anyone or anything might try to play around these laws on the temporary scale, they can never escape them in the long term scale that these laws represent. One can for example steal from a field, or steal the produce from a field, but fundamentally, in the end, unless they know what to do, or how to map where good field will be (Attainmant of Wisdom via Saturn) they will eventually fall victim to these mentalities of trying to escape and malform these laws, and perish.
When this Divine set law is "transgressed", there is essentially the destruction of a living lifeforms, because it has not accepted the laws that come with existence in itself. Traditionally, because the process of growth, is also related to experiencing adversities, many people do not always seem to accept this process that will in the end make them as the Gods, similarly to how most people will not go to the gym in fear of pain - so their body will not see it's Golden Age of ability.
But without this concept embed in creation, there could never be any form of creation. In a not so paradoxical case, these laws are here only to help beings reach higher ends. For these laws to exist however, simultaneously, there has to be an abysmal ladder that if one falls, they can also reach either the highest heights or the lowest lows.
From a symbolic standpoint, Saturn is considered the God that “consumes” his children; the power of Saturn in Astrology and in Cosmogony, is the force that prompts humanity to either spiritually advance, or have to face the consequences of it’s own ignorance.
Time will indeed consume his children; but the other lesser topic about Saturn is that while he "eats his children" (like time is eating us apart), all the children that are "eaten by Saturn", are also alive when they are coming out of Saturn's mouth - the more one understands and implements these laws, one will eventually become an evolved being. First, consumption by Saturn is a given - whomever comes on this world, will be consumed by the mouth of time, whether you like it or not.
As you exist, the clock goes tick, tock, tick, tock. And you are on your way to develop. If you try to shut down the clock and not develop, it is still there, always ticking. The choice is yours. If some people feel a bit hurt that I mention these things, do not blame the messenger; I am merely a disciple of the Gods who is observing life too closely. Better do something with this Tick Tock of Time, rather than spend it all on Tik Tok time...
Now, Saturn also rules a series of other things that many people also dislike, to their own detriment as well as per usual: Boundaries, Discipline, Order, Maturity, Realism and internal spiritual conscience.
Most people, albeit they have to face all these things, instead of trying to understand them, get on board, work with these in order to improve themselves, merely seek to flee away from them, causing a lot of potential catastrophe to themselves and others.
In previous topics I have written on Saturn, I have explained why Saturn is a King Maker. Now, let's pressupose we have a King that does not know boundaries, discipline, order, maturity, realism or does not have an internal spiritual conscience. Where will the Kingdom and the people go? The kingdom is destined to perish.
In order to develop any serious knowledge of the above topics, one must also be in contact with the SAT aspect of Saturn...The Truth. In order to learn boundaries or discipline, order or maturity, or realism, or to develop truly spiritually, one has to start shedding things from themselves in the same way that the Sickle of Saturn must cut off the bad weeds and untruths from one's self.
After this process is done, one is guaranteed to become part of active, boundless and abundant generative process. But of course, the process of maintaining one's self into a standard that is supported by Saturn, has nothing related to the notion of it being "easy". Ease and Truth are two rather distant topics to themselves.
Humanity was given a certain timeline, a lifetime, or another part of life (which also includes their souls through reincarnations) to exist, thrive and develop. This timeline is supposed to be used for development of the species but also to enjoy existence, but also to act in a manner that will extend life itself in the future of the notion of Time.
Saturn divides the human lifespan (whether a human being would live for 100 or 1000 years, it would not matter) in very specific segmentation. That is a topic for another time. That segmentation is a key to actually achieve the Magnum Opus and a satisfactory life.
The concept of SAT-ya in Sanskrit, SAT-an in later history, or SAT-urn in the Roman Pantheon, are all correlated with the primary concept of the Truth. That concept has to be faced in order for a being to eventually get reborn and spiritually evolve itself, the laws around this topic are unavoidable, and everything that comes into existence, has to face these laws and seek how to work with them in order to finally master them.
Saturn was originally considered as the “Hidden Sun”, the “Dark Sun”, or the “Black Sun”. These allegorical statements indicate the hidden, intricate and occult nature of the sun in the heavens. That sun, in contrast to the known sun, is hiding and must be discovered. In Plato's works such as Timeaus, Saturn is literally called "Helios", meaning Sun. This inner Sun is not like the Sun of the heavens, and it's a sun that requires spiritual rectification to be reached. Hesiod and many others have glorified Saturn.
As a last note, Saturn's Era or the Golden Age, is representative of a time where humanity was spiritually elevated, not of the world of today. This is considered as a time of where "Heaven on Earth" as mentioned above. The Ancient Romans and Ancient Greeks, kept two celebrations for Saturn, named Kronia & Saturnalia, with the same common cultural content [around late December, like we glorify Satya today and in Mid Summer - Time of Harvest].
These celebrations were quite symbolic of this Golden Age era, as everything that was a part of the "current world" during these celebrations was banished, such as ignorance, poverty, deprivation, poverty, pettiness, lack of spirituality, slavery, death and many other such terms, were treated as non-existent realities to honor Saturn and remember the Golden Age, where none of this existed.
Humanity would simply band together and remind itself that no matter what is going on at the present, eventually there will be a Golden Age where there will be no notions of spiritual slavery and humanity will eventually become restored, to it's old and beloved Ruler, who is nobody else but Saturn.
For that age to arrive however and for us to reap from it's sweet fruits, we also have to sow the proper seeds; that is the core message of Saturn - What you give, is what you shall receive.
-High Priest Zevios Metathronos