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BigTTYGothGF 7 hours ago

> rings of Saturn

Not observed until 1610

> Saturn has a hexagonal shaped storm on its north pole

Not observed until 1981/1987

> and the all-seeing eye on its south pole

Not immediately clear when first observed, I'll bet it wasn't until Cassini got there in 2004.

I appreciate the creativity in a new-to-me conspiracy theory, but be a little more careful about the historical record.

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tinfoilhatter 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Not observed and yet depicted in symbolism by different cultures dating back to Babylon. Quite the mystery indeed... I'm sure you have an explanation for how the Dogon tribe knew more about the Sirius star system than we did until relatively recently as well.

It's quite egotistical and foolish to assume we're more advanced and know more than our ancient ancestors, or that what is written in our history books is objective truth.

In fact, even scholars have suggested that Babylonians could and did observe at least one of Saturn's rings - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_que...

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BigTTYGothGF 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'm sure you have an explanation for how the Dogon tribe knew more about the Sirius star system than we did until relatively recently as well.

I have a hypothesis, which incorporates the fact that the Dogon were not reported to have such knowledge until the 1930s, well after the discovery of Sirius B.

> depicted in symbolism by different cultures dating back to Babylon

A bit of searching is coming up short, beyond a claim about shackles on the ankles of a Roman statue of Saturn (the god) symbolizing the rings; I find this less convincing than the idea that they symbolize shackles (the ones with which he was bound in Tartaros).

	▲	tinfoilhatter 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I have a hypothesis, which incorporates the fact that the Dogon were not reported to have such knowledge until the 1930s, well after the discovery of Sirius B. That's not a fact, because there are several sources / individuals that dispute this claim. > A bit of searching is coming up short, beyond a claim about shackles on the ankles of a Roman statue of Saturn (the god) symbolizing the rings; I find this less convincing than the idea that they symbolize shackles (the ones with which he was bound in Tartaros). Well you're pretty terrible at searching the internet then, considering I can type Sumerian saturn symbolism into any image search engine and find a plethora of examples.