It is probable that, as the father of agriculture, Saturn is represented in the figure of an old man, holding a scythe in his hand. […] But as she forgot to offer him perpetual youth, he became so much worn out with infirm old age that he chose rather to die than live. […] His figure is sometimes that of a young, and sometimes of an old man. […] Sylvanus was an old man, small in stature, with the tail and feet of a goat. […] When Hercules was a babe but eight months old in his cradle, Juno sent two serpents to destroy him.

An old man named Silenus. […] Hela was cast into Niffleheim, where she receives as her subjects all who die of sickness or old age. […] He assumed, therefore, the form of an old woman, and went to see Frigga. […] The word is derived from the old Breton man, stone; and hir, long. […] The Aztecs, like many nations of the old world, had their Golden Age.