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the SCARAB
"Khepri, the
Scarab God. Before him he rolls the ball of the sun,
pushing it into the
Other World in the evening and over the horizon in the
morning as the scarab beetle
pushes before itself a ball of dung. For the
Egyptians he represented the rising sun
and symbolized the renewal of life and the idea of
eternal existence."
- New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology
Written in Papyrus Ani., Kings Companion to Seti II it
says: "Among the Egyptians,
the Scarabeaus Beetle is . . . one of the emblems
of the Creator, because it
rolls a ball of mud between its feet and sets
therein its eggs to hatch.
As the Creator rolls the world around, and causes
it to produce life.
When shown holding an object in its forelegs, the object
is said to represent the rising sun. |
