Author: James Baldwin

Jupiter and his powerful group hadn't always lived among the clouds on the mountain top. Long ago, a remarkable family called the Titans lived there and ruled the world. There were twelve of them—six brothers and six sisters—and they said their father was the Sky and their mother was the Earth. They looked like men and women, but they were much larger and far more beautiful.

The youngest of these Titans was named Saturn; and yet he was so old that people often called him Father Time. He was the king of the Titans, and so, of course, was the king of all the earth as well.

People were never as happy as they were during Saturn’s reign. It was truly the Golden Age then. Spring lasted all year. The woods and meadows were always full of flowers, and the sound of singing birds was heard every day and every hour. It was summer and autumn, too, at the same time. Apples, figs, and oranges always hung ripe from the trees; and there were purple grapes on the vines, and melons and berries of every kind, which people just had to pick and eat.