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Khepri and the Egyptian Scarab
The ancient Egyptians believed that all dung beetles were male because it appeared to them that their eggs hatched out of the ball of dung rolled by the beetle. It seemed that the beetles must mate with the dung ball and inseminate it so producing young.
So why would they believe this would make the dung beetle a representative of a god?
The main Egyptian sun god was Ra. The young sun god, responsible for the sun rising every morning, though, was Khepri whose name means 'come into being'. Khepri pushed the sun from the underworld into the sky each morning in the same way as the scarab beetle pushed the balls of dung which eventually gave birth to more beetles.
One of my personal x-files; once in NYC at the restaurant on the lake (in the take area) I saw a scarab run across the tile floor at the check out counter near the exit. I heard it's pointy legs clicking on the floor-it was that big! It was not a cockroach, much to big(could have been another type of beetle)
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