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What is Saturn named for?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Saturn is named for Saturnus, a Roman god equated to the Greek Kronos (the Titan father of Zeus) the Babylonian Ninurta and to the Hindu Shani. Saturn's symbol represents the god's sickle (Unicode: ♄)

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