Scorpion

• Scorpion is used in Medicine.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats the scorpion among venomous creatures with sting and remedies entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named scorpion in that encyclopedia, not zodiac Scorpius alone and not a modern pest dump.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Nahua tradition

• Scorpion appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records colotl in Book 11 insect and small-creature speech — named scorpion. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Egyptian religion

• Scorpion appears in Egyptian religion.

  Herodotus notes scorpions among Libyan and desert fauna in the traveler frame tied to Egyptian and neighboring logos. A named scorpion in that speech, not Pliny/Florentine pharmacy alone and not a zodiac Scorpio flatten alone.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Mesopotamian tradition

• Scorpion appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

  The Epic of Gilgamesh seats scorpion-men as guardians at Mount Mashu on the road to Utnapishtim. A named scorpion figure in that epic, not zodiac Scorpius and not Pliny pharmacy.

  from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)

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Hellenic religion

• Scorpion appears in Hellenic religion.

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses seats the scorpion among the sky-story that ends Orion’s career. A named scorpion in that poem, not crab as Cancer and not every venom dump.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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