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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Mathematics of Powerlifting and the case of the Ultrasaur
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 21:29:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 21:29:52 1985
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In article <387@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:

>               Immanuel  Velikovsky  believed,  David  Talbott  believes, I
>          believe, and the various contributors and  readers of  the Kronos
>          Journal believe  that, less  than 10,000 years ago, there existed
>          on this planet an age of  wonder,  a  true  golden  age  when, as
>          Hesiod and  Ovid claimed, Cronos (Saturn) was the king of heaven.

Hesiod and Ovid?  This is like quoting "Paradise Lost" as evidence
that the Garden of Eden existed.  Ovid's sources were 100% literary,
including Hesiod's poems.  Hesiod's sources were oral tradition,
Homer, and his imagination.

What is the evidence that the ancient myths about the reign of Kronos
are referring to the *planet* Saturn?  

Richard Carnes