"Scorpio, or Scorpius, the Scorpion, was the reputed slayer of the Giant, exalted to the skies and now rising from the horizon as Orion, still in fear of the Scorpion, sinks below it. . .Classical authors saw in it the monster that caused the disastrous runaway of the steeds of Phoibus Apollow when in the inexperienced hands of Phaethon.
For some centuries before the Christian era it was the largest of the zodiac figures, forming with the (Greek word), its Claws,--the prosectae chelae of Cicero, now our Libra,--a double constellation, as Ovid wrote:
Porrigit in spatium signorum membra duorum:
and this figuring has been adduced as the strongest proof of Scorpio's great antiquity, from the belief that only six constellations made up the earlies zodiac, of which this extended sign was one."
Allen 1899:361
Sir William Drummond asserted that in the zodiac which the patriarch Abraham knew it was an Eagle;...
Allen 1899:362
Always prominent in that (Arabic) astronomy, Jensen thinks that it was formed there 5000 B.C., and pictured much as it now is; perhaps also in the semi-human form of two Scorpion-men, the early circular Altar, or Lamp, sometimes being shown grasped in the Claws, as the Scales were in illustrations of the l5th century. In Babylonia this calendar sign was indentified with the eights month, Arakh Savna, our October-November."
Allen 1899:363
". . .the alchemists held it in high regard, for only when the sun was in this sign could the transmutation of iron into gold be performed."
Allen 1899:363
"...Brown was its assigned color, and Pliny asserted that the appearance of a comet here portended a plague of reptiles and insects, especially of locusts."
Always prominent in that (Arabic) astronomy, Jensen thinks that it was formed there 5000 B.C., and pictured much as it now is; perhaps also in the semi-human form of two Scorpion-men, the early circular Altar, or Lamp, sometimes being shown grasped in the Claws, as the Scales were in illustrations of the l5th century. In Babylonia this calendar sign was indentified with the eighth month, Arakh Savna, our October-November."
Allen 1899:364
"In Egyptian astronomy it (Antares) represented the goddess Selit, Selk-t, or Serk-t, heralding the sunrise through her temples at the autumnal equinox about 3700-3500 B.C. and was the symbol of Isis"
Always prominent in that (Arabic) astronomy, Jensen thinks that it was formed there 5000 B.C., and pictured much as it now is; perhaps also in the semi-human form of two Scorpion-men, the early circular Altar, or Lamp, sometimes being shown grasped in the Claws, as the Scales were in illustrations of the l5th century. In Babylonia this calendar sign was indentified with the eights month, Arakh Savna, our October-November."
Allen 1899:366
In the legends of the Polynesian Islanders, notably those of the Hervey group, the stars in the Scorpion, from the two letters () to () and (), were the Fish-hook of Maui with which that god drew up from the depths the great island Tongareva; . . .
Always prominent in that (Arabic) astronomy, Jensen thinks that it was formed there 5000 B.C., and pictured much as it now is; perhaps also in the semi-human form of two Scorpion-men, the early circular Altar, or Lamp, sometimes being shown grasped in the Claws, as the Scales were in illustrations of the l5th century. In Babylonia this calendar sign was indentified with the eights month, Arakh Savna, our October-November."
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