Scorpio sign appears in the center of (Diana) Artemis’ chest along with the other signs of the zodiac around her neck on a 125-175 C.E. statue exhibited in Ephesus Museum, Turkey. Picture is courtesy of AWWS.
In Greek mythology Hellenic goddess Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo.
Zodiac Signs appear on the 1908 floor of the Roman Catholic Dormition (“Falling Asleep” of the Virgin) Church in Jerusalem along with names of Prophets Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel and a verse from Proverbs 8, 23-25. The three intersecting circles in the center symbolize the Trinity. Designer of the church was Heinrich Renard.
Picture is courtesy of “Black and white archive” From Flickr
Picture was taken in 1945 by James George (1921 - 2006)
Scorpio that looks like a lizard. The picture is courtesy of “gorgeoux”. it is one of 12 zodiacal sign reliefs at Calella, Catalonia , Spain (50 kilometers north of Barcelona).
Colum Hourihane wrote in his book Time in the Medieval World that Scorpio was connected in medieval art to October, viewed from above, could have a long tail starting from the head, or could look like a dog, or a tortoise with shell (because the artists in Europe didn’t have a model of a real Scorpio in front of their eyes).
The full details of this book are: Occupations of the Months and Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University Dept. of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art, Penn State Press, 2007
Tha late Rabbi S.Z. Kahana quoted on his web page from Lekach Tov to Genesis 1: 14
(And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years”)
Aries- Persia and Madai
Taurus- Chaldaeans
Gemini- Khazari
Cancer- Armenia
Leo - Edom
Virgo: Ashkenazi, German
Scorpio- desert
Libra- Africa
Sagittarius- Negro
Capricorn- Eretz Israel
Aquarius - Egypt
Pisces- Hondea
It seems that the idea of zodiac signs ruling geographical areas was not originally Jewish since
1st century CE Roman poet and astrologer Marcus Manilius already wrote in his Astronomica that Scorpio ruled over Carthage, Libya, Egypt, Sardinia.
Scorpio comics picture is courtesy of natashahohoho and it shows Scorpio sign, glyph, dates and quite negative traits: secretive, vindictive, forceful, sullen
Scorpio Tattoo (“Eylcia and the Scorpio of Pain”) picture is courtesy of Glandrid who shot it on the beach at a North Provincial Park party on a vacation at Lake Ontario. It is not entirely clear to me if the pain we are talking about here is the pain of Scorpios or the pain of Eylcia in the process of getting a tattoo... or both.
This Cuneiform tablet picture is courtesy of Nickmard Khoey who published it on Flickr with the following caption:
This is the last datable cuneiform tablet in the British Museum. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac signs and the dates of their characteristic phenomena. Dates of solstices, equinoxes and eclipses are also given. The text also refers to the rising of Sirius, and especially bright star used as calendar markers by various cultures across the ancient world.
61 C.E., Babylon, Iraq
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Nickmard Khoey added:
It is the "last" dated Cunieform tablet. It has been dated because of the Zodiac information on it. Cunieform was still in use until the 1st Century AD. It was used for more than 3,000 years in various forms by different near eastern empires.
It’s a pity that I can’t read cuneiform letters. It would have been much more friendly if we could see the known zodiac-signs scattered between these strange letters, but it seems that these were invented latter.
