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by allemagne 982 days ago
The actual "Scorpio."

Unless I'm missing something crucial, this seems pretty absurd and probably shouldn't be mentioned by the wiki page at all.

From the first wiki source here https://www.space.com/2458-ancient-rock-art-depicts-explodin...

>The Hohokam petroglyph depicts symbols of a scorpion and stars that match a model showing the relative positions of the supernova with respect to the constellation Scorpius.

Then here's the second source https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/did-ancient-ameri...

>"We have no reason to think prehistoric Indians of the American Southwest saw a scorpion in the stars of Scorpius," says Krupp. "In fact, in North America, the stars of Scorpius are imagined as various figures but not as a scorpion."