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Saturn V

7/6/2013

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Picture
Year: 2011
Dimensions: 25.25″ x 33.5″
Medium: Oil on board


From Chaos, You enter my dreams like a river of piss, unbathed with an
unclean mind.  The rage of 10,000 dying lunatics cannot match your
loathsomeness. You know the length of eternity, and eternity is your
wait. My time is fleeting, but my love is not.  O Father of Great Jupiter,
Son of Uranus! Most Mighty Saturn, hear me! 



In Hesiod’s Theogony, an account of the creation of the universe and Jupiter’s rise to power, Saturn is mentioned as the son of Uranus (the Greek equivalent of Roman Caelus), the heavens, and Gaia (the Greek equivalent of Terra), the Earth. Hesiod is an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. He writes that Saturn seizes power, castrating and overthrowing his father Uranus. However, it was foretold that one day a mighty son of Saturn would in turn overthrow him, and Saturn devoured all of his children when they were born to prevent this. Saturn’s wife, Rhea (often identified with the Roman goddess Ops), hid her sixth child, Jupiter, on the island of Crete, and offered Saturn a large stone wrapped in swaddling clothes in his place; Saturn promptly devoured it. Jupiter later overthrew Saturn and the other Titans, becoming the new supreme ruler of the cosmos. This was the end of the Golden Age of Man. 

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