 When considering the squatter man questioned, looking back across several millennia to the beginnings of astral religion, do we see anything more than worship of the rising and setting sun, the solar orb? The preeminence of the sun as the fountainhead of life and man's well-being must have rendered it at a date almost contemporaneous with the birth of civilization as we know it and recognize it. The chief object of man's worship. It was sunrise that inspired the first prayers uttered by people as they reemerged to a world obliterated by the squatter field, calling into action acts of devotion, raising an altar and kindle sacrificial flames. Before the sun's all-glorious shrine, the first survivors knelt and raised their voices in praise and supplication, fully confirmed in the belief that their prayers were heard and answered. This was the belief inflicted by catastrophic fear. Wait, do you hear this? Not without reason do scholars identify the Greek Helios, Assyrian Shamosh or Egyptian God-Raw with the solar orb. Can it be doubted that Helios radiating light from his brow and mounted on a fiery chariot is our sun? That Helios became the Greek word for the solar orb is beyond dispute. In Egypt, countless hymns to the God-Raw extol him as the divine power opening the day. The lords of all lands praise Raw when he rises at the beginning of each day. Raw is the great light who shines in the heavens. Thou art glorious by reason and thy splendors. Raw, who art there in the heavens, the giver of light. Such imagery would seem to leave no question as to the God's solar character. Yet, according to David Talbot of the Thunderbolts Project, if the preceding analysis of the great father is correct, Raw or Akhtam, is not the solar orb but the planet Saturn. The golden age of Raw was the age of An, Yama or Cronus to the Greeks. One thus finds an interest of Egyptian Ostrakhan in the first century BC, cited by Franz Wohl. The Ostrakhan identifies the planet Saturn as the great God-Raw. Taken alone, this identification as cited in Talbot's masterpiece, the Saturn myth, could only appear as a very late anomaly divorced from any solid tradition. But many scholars notice that among the Greeks and Latins, there prevailed a mysterious confusion of the sun Greek Helios, Latin Sol, with the outermost planet. Therefore, the expression star of Helios or star of Sol was applied to planet Saturn. According to David Talbot, it's unmistakable. Though the Greek Cronus was the Latin Saturn, Nonas gives Cronus as the Arab name of the sun Hygenus enlisting the planets, names first Jupiter, then the planet of Sol, others say of Saturn. Why was the planet most distanced from the sun called both sun and Saturn, you have to wonder. Is this the jigsaw piece that has blinded our kind since the beginning of time as we know it? Concerning the confusion of the sun and Saturn among classical writers, a simple explanation was offered when the Greek name Helios so closely resembles the Greek transliteration of the Venetian L that classical authors confused the two gods. That was, since L is the Greek Cronus and is so translated by Philo, Cronus Saturn came to be confused with Helios, the sun, yet as noted by scores of authors that the identification is more widespread than generally acknowledged and is much more than a misunderstanding of names. The confusion is also far older than Philo who lived in the first century of the Christian era. In the eponymous of Plato, there is an enumeration of the planets which as customarily translated and tells this unstartling statement. There remain then three stars, one of which is preeminent among them for slowness and some call him after Cronus. Yet the original reading is not Cronus but Helios which is to say that Plato gave the name Helios to Saturn but copyist who could not believe that Helios was anything other than the sun corrected the reading to Cronus. Moreover, this practice of correcting the name Helios to Cronus was not uncommon among later copyist. Helios and Saturn were one and the same god. The equation of the sun and Saturn is very old with roots in Samarro Babylonian astronomy. Of the Babylonian star worshippers the chronicler Diodorus writes to the one we call Saturn they give a special name Sunstar. Among the Babylonians the sun god Par excellence was Shamash the light of the gods whom scholars uniformly identify with the solar orb but Im Jastro in an article entitled Sun and Saturn reports that in the Babylonian astronomical text the identification of Shamash with Saturn is unequivocal the planet Saturn is Shamash they boldly declared. In support of this identity the author notes numerous examples involving the interchangeable application of the term Samas to either the great orb of the day or the planet Saturn. The apparent equivalence of Saturn and the Sun goes back to Sumerian times as is evident in the dual aspect of the creator god Nenerta. Langdon deems Nenerta both the Sun and Saturn the Sun god Nenerta. In the original Sumerian epic of creation defeated the dragon of chaos and founded cities. In Samarro Babylonian religion he is the war god and planet Saturn. It is not difficult to see why Nenerta or Nin Jersu though identified with the planet Saturn in the astronomical text came to be confused with the solar orb. Nin Jersu coming from Eridu rose in overwhelming splendor. In the land it became day Saturn as Nin Jersu is the god who changes darkness into light. The priest of Lagash evoked him as king storm whose splendor is heroic. This unexpected quality of the planet led one author after another to designate Saturn as a symbol of the eastern sun or the sun of the horizon though offering no concrete explanation for the proposed connection. The Sun-like aspects of Saturn prevails from the earliest astronomy through medieval mysticism and astrology. Saturn with its rays since forth transcendent powers which penetrate into every part of the world according to an Arabic astrologer of the 10th century. When the alchemists inheritors of ancient teachings spoke of Saturn as the best sun it is unlikely that they themselves knew what to do with the idea but that the tradition was passed down from remote antiquity is both indisputable and crucial. In claiming that the great father Saturn presiding over the lost epic was the primeval sun we do not propose that our sun was absent rather that it simply did not preoccupy the minds of the ancients as heavily as one whom shone brightest over the lost epic in time. That being the planet Saturn before the catastrophic squatter field event generated by planetary effects but what do you guys think about this anyway? Comments below and as always thank you for watching.