Scorpio Symbols and Symbolic

Scorpio Tattoo

Scorpio Symbols

• Many Africans avoid pronouncing his name because it is evil: to name it would have triggered forces against itself, and it is designated by allusions, like the hyena, often called the collapsed.
• In the night, with his tail ending in a tumor stuffed with venom, feeding a sting always bandaged and ready to sting to death that brushes against it, he embodies the bellicose spirit, malicious mood, always ambushed and quick to kill; in the daytime, it symbolizes maternal abnegation and sacrifice, for its little ones, according to legend, plow its flanks and eat its bowels before appearing in the daytime (HAMK, 60).

• The scorpion is the hunting god of the Mayas, and in their glyphics it is used as a symbol of penance and bleeding (THOH).
• The scorpion with eight legs, is the protector of the twins, totaling eight members: no one will touch them without exposing themselves to their sting (GRIE).
• In Egypt, this dangerous arachnid gives shape to one of the oldest hieroglyphics; and his name to one of the predynastic rulers, the scorpion king.
• His image, finished at the head of Isis, is at the top of some sceptres of Pharaohs, and he was even honored as a god, in the female form of the goddess Selket, benevolent person, since she gave power over her earthly manifestations to the charmers of Selket, an old corporation of healing wizards (POSD, 26).
• Here the scorpion takes on all the symbolic ambivalence of the snake.

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