Thread: This amazing seal is one of many found in Dilmun, an ancient port located in today's Bahrein which was founded in the late 4th millenium BC and abandoned in the mid 1st millennium BC... 
Located in the Persian Gulf, it controlled the major trade route between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilisation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun
Now back to the seal. It depicts a date palm, the Mesopotamian tree of life. On one side of the tree is ascending ibex goat and on the other is descending ibex goat. The tree grows out of a scorpio...What does all this mean?
The climate in Bahrein consists of very hot and completely dry summer (May-October/November) and slightly cooler slightly rainy winter (October/November - May)... climatestotravel.com/climate/bahrain
If it wasn't for the winter rain, Dilman would have not been there at all. It was this rain that supported life in the area. And again, interestingly, in Dilman the beginning of the rain season coincides with the beginning of the Ibex goat mating season...October/November...
So this is why we have ibexes flanking the tree of life. The one going up symbolises the beginning of the mating season when Ibexes ascend the mountain peaks and the one going down symbolises the end of the mating season when ibexes descend the mountain peaks...
But what about the scorpion? Why is the tree of life growing out of a scorpion? Because of this: Zodiac sign scorpio marks the part of the Solar year between 23rd of October and 22nd of November...Right the period when Ibexes start their mating season and rains arrive...
We know that scorpion was a common marking sign on seals and stamps since the Early Sumerian civilisation. I have managed to explain every animal zodiac symbol as a marker for a significant lifecycle event of the animal depicted: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/p/zodiac.html
Except for scorpio. Why is scorpio in the zodiac circle where it is? I couldn't find any significant lifecycle event, anything visible, obvious, unmissable, that would make people say: "when scropions do this it is scorpion time of the year"....
Yet I know it has to be there. I am just missing something obvious. Because if not, scorpio would be the only animal sign, anywhere, which is not linked to some significant lifecycle event of the animal depicted...Anyone here who knows more about scorpions who can help?
Interestingly, scorpio is the only sign which has a double: eagle. And I can explain why eagle is where it is on the zodiac circle, and I will write about it soon...For now have a look at this post about four living creatures oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/04/four-l…
