God Saturn was revered by the Romans since ancient times and very widely, there were everywhere his sanctuaries, and Italy itself, according to legend, was originally called Saturn's land. Saturn was considered the god of fertile land and crops (his name comes from the Latin satus - sowing), but his image gradually merged with the figure of the Greek god Kronos, father of Zeus, whom he overthrew and concluded in the abyss of Tartar.
In the minds of the Romans, this legend was transformed and sounded as follows: when Jupiter threw Saturn off the throne, he boarded the ship and after long wanderings landed on the shores of Lucius, central Italy, where the tribe of Latins lived and where the eternal city of Rome would eventually be built. On Tiber Saturn has risen on the ship up to hill Janus where it hospitably has accepted Janus. Saturn himself settled on the other side of the river, at the foot of the Capitol. At the same hill stood his oldest sanctuary. In those ancient times, the people living nearby were wild and hunted for food. Saturn brought them together in a single tribe, taught them to cultivate the land, grow fruits and grapes. It is said that this land itself was called "Lacius" from the word latere, "to hide", because it sheltered Saturn, who fled from his son's anger.
The time when the god ruled by the Latins was called the Golden Age. At that time all people lived in peace and abundance and were equal, not divided into slaves and free, poor and rich. But eventually Saturn left the Capitol and the Golden Age became a thing of the past. In honor of Saturn, the creator of agriculture, and in memory of his time at the end of each year, the Romans celebrated a merry festival of Saturnalia, dedicated to the last harvest, when slaves were equalized in rights with their masters. It was also called the Saturn generation of peaceful farmers living in the bosom of nature, and the Saturn verse - an uncomplicated size, which was written by the most ancient poets.
In the times of the Republic on the site of an ancient sanctuary erected a temple in honor of Saturn and his wife, the goddess Ops, who was associated with the Greek Reya. Under this temple as under protection of the god the Roman treasury and contracts on the state debts and incomes were kept.
They also said that Saturn had a son named Peak, the god of fields and forests. He was beautiful in body and soul, and many nymphs looked at him, but he gave his heart to only one - the daughter of Janus Kanente, famous for her unusual voice. One day Pick went to the forests of Lavrente to hunt wild boars. There, the wizard Circea saw him gathering herbs, and she became stupefied, impressed by the beauty of Peak: he was riding through the woods on a horseback with two darts in his hands and in a scarlet cloak of chlamyd, chipped with a golden buckle. At first glance, Circea fell in love with Peak, and to lure him away from the retinue, she created a ghost in the wilderness that carried Peak into the wilderness.
More often than not, Peak the Wizard scuffled him and begged him for love. Pick answered that he loved only his wife Kanent and would remain faithful to her. Insulted by Circea's refusal, she shouted out a spell and felt the Peak turning into a bird. He was pissed at the beaked trees, but the human appearance did not return to him. Only the feather of the bird preserved the traces of the former Peak outfit: its reddish wings and a golden rim around its neck. We call this bird a woodpecker.
Peak's companions were looking for him in vain through the woods and found him only in the Circea. They recognized the mighty wizard and demanded that she return the Peak to them, but the cunning Circea called to the abysses and turned the Peak companions into wild animals.
The canton could not wait for her husband. She wept, tearing her hair out of the sorrow for six days and nights without sleep and food, wandering through the woods and fields, looking for Peak. She finally came to the shore of the Tiber, and there she was unable to sink to the ground to sing her last song. Kanenta sang and slowly melted in the air until she disappeared. In memory of Kanent, the place where she was gone is called the Singer.