There's a church here that I keep meaning to photograph. It's in a largely Chinese area of town, and I hear that scorpions are symbols of luck to the Chinese. For those who have other associations with scorpions, it's really rather macabre.
You see, the whole church is in the shape of a streamlined, modernist representation of a scorpion. It's essentially a long, elongated triangle. It spikes upward at the two front corners slightly where the pincers would be, and sharply upward at the back, where the stinger would be. The doors to enter the building are in the middle-front-bottom -- more or less where the scorpion's mouth would be. The crucifix is at the top of the rear steeple, that is, it's the stinger on the scorpion's tail.
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You see, the whole church is in the shape of a streamlined, modernist representation of a scorpion. It's essentially a long, elongated triangle. It spikes upward at the two front corners slightly where the pincers would be, and sharply upward at the back, where the stinger would be. The doors to enter the building are in the middle-front-bottom -- more or less where the scorpion's mouth would be. The crucifix is at the top of the rear steeple, that is, it's the stinger on the scorpion's tail.
It gives me the willies every time.
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