The Saturn Myth, by David N. Talbott Book

This a reprint of an exceedingly difficult book to find in print.

The book examines similar tales in comparative mythology and states that thousands of years ago, Earth was a former satellite of Saturn, and that a vastly different solar system alignment existed. This proto-Saturn, devoid of its current rings, was much closer to the sun.

According to the author, a major cataclysm disfigured the previous planetary configuration and unleashed major chaos on a formerly advanced human civilization.

This astronomical catastrophe ended a previous Golden Age in which humans, previously living in an advanced civilization, witnessed drastic changes in their sky.

Survivors of this cataclysm later retold this story to their descendants in the form of religious archetypes, which represents planetary bodies.