Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

prolific during the Roman Saturnalia." This festival was also to celebrate the winter solstice, which is still commemorated in witchcraft and Masonry today. Saturn “is represented as an old man bent with age, carrying a scythe in his right hand.” We find that “the scythe is also symbolic of the harvest—of renewed hopes for rebirth” or REINCARNATION. The scythe is also a symbol of time.

“Time is [r]epresented by winged old man, with scythe and hourglass, disentangling ringlets of weeping virgin.” Sometimes the hourglass is even drawn with wings.