Dominion: time, the harvest, wealth, abundance, liberation, endings, renewal, the underworld, the government 

Title: Father Time

Sacred Symbols: sickle, scythe, hooded robe 

Sacred Colours: black, dark blue, gold

Sacred Animals: pigs, cattle, goats, sheep

Sacred Plants: wheat, fig tree, grapes, all crops grown for food and drink

Sacred Jewel: diamond

Day of Worship: Saturday

High Feast Days: 1st of August and 1st of November

Festival: Yuletide (from the last New Moon of the year to the last Full Moon)

Devotees: all are free to enter the Temple of Saturn and worship there

Invoked for: wealth, power, greater responsibility, freedom from tyranny, stable government, an ordered society, a better world, a healthy old age, a timely death 

Temple: There is only one Temple of Saturn in Lindensea and it is on Broad Street in Camden. 

Initiation: Only those at the highest echelons of wealth and power are eligible to become initiates of Saturn. The full details are a secret, but it is known that some point in the proceedings, the candidate will enter the temple yoked to a cart, like a beast of burden. They must promise to live their life with full humility, and give themselves over to serve the public without reward.  

Merged with: Amon, the African god of agriculture

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Although Saturn is a god of agriculture, you will find no temples in his name in the villages and countryside. Saturn is the god of wealth and abundance, so it is only fitting that his temple is in the heart of the city of Camden's financial district. Here is the golden grain of the kingdom's wealth become golden coins, for the corn merchants in the city sell wheat for money, and here both are stored in grain houses and banks.

You may find the temple between the Royal Treasury and the National Archives, for who better than Saturn to guard the kingdom's wealth and its history? There are seven broad steps leading up to the temple, which has eight thick broad columns of imposing size. 

Above the portico is written in large letters: PROSPERITY. LIBERTY. EQUALITY. The first small room one enters in the temple has all the laws of the kingdom written on the walls, with the phrase inscribed for all to read: All who obey the law shall have freedom and justice under the law.  

It is perhaps strange that this god, who on the surface appears so grim and stern, should be so widely beloved. I have placed Saturn last of the great gods, which I am sure his humility would appreciate, but in fact he is the greatest god of all. From his gentle teachings come the golden harvest, the laws which keep us safe, and the very fabric of society. From him comes time and space, the architecture of the universe; life, death, eternity.

All are free to enter his temple and worship there, for all are equal before his gaze. It is the natural place of worship for everyone who works in finance - the bankers, treasurers, insurance clerks, money lenders, corn merchants. Saturn is also a great favourite with people of Moorish descent, who see him as the equivalent of Amon, the esteemed African god of agriculture and the weather.

Despite the rich donations that are made to Saturn every day from his devotees, his favourite thing to receive is the gift of yourself. Nothing pleases Saturn more than offering your services to the people without thought of reward, and the Temple of Saturn spends much of its free time in volunteer work.  

Saturday is named after Saturn, and is his day of worship. This is market day throughout the kingdom, and he smiles on the bustling crowds and money-making. Saturn loves hard work, and to keep busy and be productive on his special day brings him pleasure.  Saturn's high feast days are public holidays, and his festival of Yuletide a time of great merrymaking that everyone joins in with a right good will. The toil and labour of the year is over, and Saturn gives us liberty to do as we wish.

It may strike you as odd that Yuletide is a festival of both the sun god Sol and the god of time, Saturn. Theologians much more learned than I could ever be tell us that Sol and Saturn are two sides of the one coin, and that Saturn is the true sun - not the mere yellow ball of fire in the sky we know and love, but the great sun, the light of the world, and the first light that cracked open our universe and set it all in motion.

These thoughts are too deep for me to understand, and perhaps too deep for you as well. Suffice to say that there exists a strong friendship and brotherhood between the Temples of Sol and Saturn. Should you spend the weekends working for Saturn on one day, and giving yourself up to leisure for Sol the next, you will not go far wrong in life.

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