Curiosities & wonders > History of the heathen gods and heroes of antiquity, very necessary for understanding the writings of the ancients, and the modern English poets

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P A R T II.
CHAP. I-
Of the Terrejirial Deities.
SATURN.
THERE is a twofold divifion of tPe Terreftn*
al deities; for feme of them inhabit the ci¬
ties and fields indifferently, and thefe are called
terreftial gods; hut the others live only in the
country and in the woods, and therefore are nam¬
ed the gods of the woods.
•The terreflrial gods are, Saturn, Janus, Vul¬
can, JEolus and Momus. The geddeffes^ are Vef-
ta, Cybele, Ceres, the Mufes and Themis.
Saturn was painted a decrepit, wrinkled o,d
man, with a long beard, and hoary head; his
fboulders arc bowed, into an arch; his jaws dry
and hollow ; his eyes full of corruption ; his cheeks
funk; his note flat; his forehead furrowed ; Ins
chin turning up ; his lips black and blue ; his little
ears flagging, and his hands crooked. In his right,
he holds a nifty feythe, and in his left a ferpent,
biting its own tail.
Saturn