Saturn represents order, limitation, and responsibility. It is associated with the skeleton and the skin (Bruce-Mitford 113).

The associated Greek god, Cronus, was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the father of Zeus (See Jupiter). He is also believed to be the same as Chronus, Cronos, and Kronus.

Uranus was the first ruler of the universe. He and Gaia produced sevaral offspring which Uranus cast off Uranus. Later, some human-shaped giants, called Titans, were born; they later became the first gods and goddesses. Mother Earth could not forgive her husband Uranus for his treatment of her first children and encouraged the Titans, lead by Cronos, to rebel against their father. He attacked and overpowered Uranus by castration with a adamantine sickle and took power from him. Cronos then, like his father, bound the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires and shut them up in Tartarus.(Brown "Greek Mythology Link")

Saturn is named after the Roman Father of the Gods. The Romans adopted Saturn from the Greek god Cronus. In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture concerned with the sowing of the seeds. Saturn's wife was Ops who was the goddess of plenty. Together they bore Jupiter, ruler of the gods; Juno, goddess of marriage; Neptune, god of the sea; Pluto, god of the dead; and Ceres, goddess of grain(Lindermans "Saturn").

Jupiter supposedly chased him away and the god Janus in Latium took him in where he introduced agriculture and viniculture. Because of this, a period of peace, happiness and prosperity known as the Golden Age followed.(MSN Encarta Online "Saturn")