Scorpio ♏︎
The Scorpion. Orion’s opposite, set never to meet.
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A figure of genuine menace, crowned with a red supergiant the Greeks named “rival of Ares” for outburning Mars itself. This is the record of the Scorpion.
Babylon recorded GÍR.TAB, the Scorpion, and gave its kind the oldest of duties: in the Epic of Gilgamesh, scorpion-people guard the mountain gates through which the sun passes — sentinels of the threshold between worlds. At the creature’s heart burns Antares, one of Persia’s four royal stars, watcher of the west.
Greece set the Scorpion its famous quarry. When the hunter Orion boasted he would kill every beast on earth, the earth answered with a scorpion. Both were raised to the sky — at opposite ends of it, so that Orion sets as the Scorpion rises, the hunt renewed nightly and never concluded.
Scorpio has always ruled what is hidden and decisive: the depths, the sting held in reserve, transformation at the threshold. Its record is one canonical asset of twelve, native on Solana with an official representation on Base.
Provenance
Recorded as GÍR.TAB, the Scorpion; scorpion-beings guard the sun’s gates in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Fixed as one of twelve equal signs when Babylonian astronomers divide the sun’s path into the first zodiac — the frame still in use today.
The scorpion raised against Orion, placed opposite the hunter so the two never share the sky.
Canonized in Ptolemy’s Almagest among the forty-eight classical constellations; carried through the Arabic observatories into medieval Europe.
Engraved in Albrecht Dürer’s celestial planispheres, the first printed star charts of the Western sky.
Minted as the official Scorpio record — one canonical SPL asset, entered in the Zodiacs.org registry.
One identity, two official representations: the native Solana origin and its bridged Base counterpart, publicly verifiable in the registry.
The record
Market context
Acquisition
Scorpio trades on open markets. The routes below are provided for access; nothing here is a recommendation. Confirm the official mint against the registry before acquiring.
Scorpio on the Astrofolio shelf — the related consumer experienceOfficial mint: J4fQTRN1…Ev2YH1 · Read-only site — no custody, no signing, no transactions.