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Judas Scorpio, the Lamb of Azazel

Scorpio is the New Testament/Christian Judas, as well as the Old Testament/Judaic Sacrificial Lamb of Azazel. Both suffered the same fate: in Judas' case, he did so with his own hands according to the NT, but it must be obvious that when he did so, he would have known that he was re-enacting the sacrifice of Azazel. In Judaism, the Lamb of Azazel is taken to a high cliff outside the city and pushed over a ravine as a sacrifice to the demon Azazel. Judas is to Jesus, precisely what the Lamb of Azazel is to the Paschal Lamb. Likewise, Judas is to the sacrifice to Azazel, precisely what Jesus was to the Paschal Lamb. What is interesting about this, is that in Judaism, the Paschal Lamb and the Lamb of Azazel are sacrificed at the Autumn Equinox, whereas in the New Testament, Jesus and Judas both died at the Spring Equinox. 

There are two accounts of Judas' death in the New Testament. In one account, Judas falls and his body bursts open: in the other, he hangs himself. Obviously Judas didn't suffer both of these fates as one single man: he would have, however, if ''he'' was in reality, the merging of two separate accounts of the fates of two different sacrifices to Azazel, wherein one lamb became entangled in brush and died of strangulation, while the other fell upon a rocky crag.