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a dung beetle that ancient Egypt mistook for a god of rebirth.
means A type of dung beetle, especially the sacred one of ancient Egypt, or a carved gem or amulet made in its likeness.
from From Latin 'scarabaeus,' itself borrowed from Greek 'karabos,' a word that covered horned beetles and even crayfish. The Egyptians revered the real insect — they watched it roll a ball of dung across the ground and saw, in that humble labor, the sun god pushing the solar disc across the sky each day. So the beetle that births its young in dung became their emblem of self-creation and rebirth, carved into countless amulets that traveled the word into our own.
- divine ride
- Egyptians saw it rolling the sun like dung
- super strength
- pulls over 1,000 times its own body weight
- tomb staple
- carved hearts replaced real ones in mummies
- star navigators
- steer by the Milky Way at night
khepri — egyptian god of the sun and rebirth, depicted as a scarab beetle or human with scarab head in ancient texts from c. 2000 bce onward
scarabaeus sacer — the dung beetle species native to mediterranean and africa, sacred to ancient egyptians and used as amulet prototype