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The symbol of the planet Saturn is the sickle:

(Wikipedia)

Volumes of books could be written about Saturn the god and his 'reincarnations' in mythologies all over the world. For our purpose, though, it is necessary to concentrate on one issue only - Kepler used a cube to define the distance between Jupiter and Saturn. And he certainly did not invent this idea, he inherited the connection between Saturn and the cube from ancient sources. That is my belief.