the ancients had no need to deify the planets because, to them, the planets had always been deities. they were, to be sure, the only deities they knew. in other words, planets/stars were gods; gods were planets/stars: planets/stars and gods were one and the same. the civilization of uruk traces to that of sumer. and it is precisely here that the truth can be run to ground for the language of sumer is the oldest written language that we have. and in that language, very much as in that of the egyptians (to the ancient egyptians, the synonymy of gods and planets was so complete that, in some instances, the same word was employed to signify either. thus sba, among other things, meant "star," but sba was also the name of a "star" god. the word netru meant "stars," but it also meant "gods."), so in uruk the word and/or cuneiform sign for "god" and "star" was one and the same - * - a symbol derived from the pictograph which preceded cuneiform writing is the very picture of a star. this not only proves that stars and gods were thought of as being truly synonymous as far back as written records reach, it also indicates that the very concept of god has its origin in a star. and that "star" was saturn.
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