14-07-2026, 10:33 AM
(14-07-2026, 07:25 AM)Radim Dobeš wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.They superficially resemble signs of the zodiac, but there is a significant difference between these symbols.
Actually neither resemble the traditional sign of Cancer -- the crab. One is two scorpions, the other two crayfish.
But both are arranged opposite hard-to-tail, like the common depiction of Pisces -- which I guess derives from the traditional Western "reading" of the constellation on the sky.
If the VMS was scribed North of the Alps, the Scribe may have never seen a scorpion. Could it be that he (or the author of whatever book he used as "inspiration") misinterpreted a double-scorpion sign of Arabic origin as a pair of crayfish?
All the best, --stolfi


