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Saturn with Staff and Scythe: Earthology’s Planetary Figure
A seated figure holds a staff beneath a long curved scythe blade. Saturn’s glyph appears above the body, connecting the personification with the named planet. The image belongs to Earthology’s sequence of planetary figures. Its seated weight and agricultural implement give the abstract sign a bodily and material presence.
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Illustrator not identified. "Saturn with Staff and Scythe: Earthology’s Planetary Figure" [editorial title]. In Earthology, Albert Raphael. Original scan, 1901, Raphael, Publisher. Source scan leaf 187. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0086-0172
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Illustrator not identified. Saturn with Staff and Scythe: Earthology’s Planetary Figure. Earthology. Scan leaf 187. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0086-0172