Myths & mysteries
Babylonian astrologers originally represented the zodiac sign of Cancer with a giant water beetle instead of a crab
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For those of you who proudly identify as Cancers, enjoy knowing your original cosmic spirit animal was a glorified cockroach of the sea. The Babylonians used the scarab-like water beetle to represent the constellation, and it only got a PR glow-up into a slightly more appealing crab when the Greeks took over.
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