The sting in a tale of woe

Per my own Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms, its name has archaic double meaning in Setswana; se-kur means ‘curve-like’: evident reference to its flexible, segmented tail, and it Greek/Latin-based name skorpi transliterates to sekolopi in Setswana: ‘that which hurls [something]’.

GIR.TAB became Scorpio in Greek and Cancer (the Crab) was DUB (‘TAB’) in Sumerian – also referring to its pincers. Indeed, as Zecharia Sitchin has revealed, astrology began not with Hipparchus the Greek as history supposes, but millennia earlier in Sumer. Indeed, my own research links Scorpio with the ‘god’ Nergal, my ‘Scorpion King’ of Egypt. The Virgo sign, the maiden, was AB.SIN (‘her father [is] Sin’) in Sumer, and it belonged to the ‘goddess’ Inana: Artemis to the Greeks, Diana in Latin. Her male-twin Utu was Apollo/Apollyon in Greek and Latin tradition and they shared the Gemini sign.