re: #146 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

You need to cut Cosmos some slack, though. It’s a science program, not an examination of the origins of religious holidays.

That and it was a throwaway line in a larger point about the use of lead. Many of the god Saturn’s negative qualities reflected the effects of lead poisoning. They used lead pipes in the aquedeucts even though they knew the dangers. And the story fed into the larger story about Patterson’s crusade to get rid of lead in things like paint and gasoline because of its negative effects.