18-03-2016, 11:13 AM
(17-03-2016, 07:12 PM)Oocephalus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.MarcoP: Thanks! somehow I missed the reference to scorpions in Henle's paper. This would explain the row of dots on the VM Scorpio's back. However, I'm not sure why anyone would think that the stellio was a scorpion. Pliny says that "in figure it (the stellio) strongly resembles the common lizard". I've also found that Galenus claimed the stellio could hypnotize the scorpion by just looking at it, showing that he thought of them as two different animals.
So probably this was part of the confusion between scorpions and lizards as seen in many zodiac images.
This is what I think too: scorpions were crawling poisonous animals and people who were not familiar with actual scorpions replaced them with something similar they knew.