Myths associated with Scorpio, Scorpio in Mythology

In this post, we will check some interesting Scorpio myths. The force of regeneration is associated with the sign of Scorpio, a principle without which life cannot renew itself. All regeneration implies a form of death or destruction, so the symbolism and the myths are attached to the sign of Scorpio are stamped with a certain intensity.

The scorpion, the creature associated with Scorpio, is deadly with its claws and poisonous sting. It also has four pairs of lungs and a reputation for invulnerability. Its courageous fighting spirit led the Ancients to make it the “bearer of truth”; he who fights to the end for a just cause, or so that truth may conquer. Before the advent of the first dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs, circa 4000 BC, a mythical Egyptian king, the first unifier of the empire, was given the name Selec “the scorpion”.

According to Greek legend, Artemis, Apollo’s twin sister, who was to become Diana the Huntress goddess of the Romans, sent a scorpion to Orion, the Giant Hunter, who had tried to rape her. The scorpion stung him on the heel and he died. In recognition of the scorpion’s services, he was transformed into a constellation. Orion, after his death, also became a constellation. And ever since then, Orion flees towards the west and descends below the horizon just as Scorpio appears in the east.

There is a celebrated fable, of oriental origin, about the scorpion who asks a frog to help him cross a river by allowing the scorpion to ride on his back. He swears by all his great gods that he will do her no harm, but in the end, he stings her and, of course, drowns with her.

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This fable points out the instinctive and irrepressible urges which that bor under the sign sometimes experience. In fact, there is no other sign in the zodiac whose qualities can be either so dark and negative or so bright and positive.