Silver Pendant - Sacred Scarab

SACRED SCARAB
Khepri, God of rebirth and the sunrise

1 x solid silver scarab pendant with colourful inlaid carnelian and turquoise.
1 x stylish solid silver chain.

Total silver weight = 5 g

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The image of the scarab, conveying ideas of transformation, renewal, and resurrection, is ubiquitous in ancient Egyptian religious. The scarab was linked to Khepri, the god of the rising sun. The ancients believed that the dung beetle was only male in gender, and reproduced by depositing semen into a dung ball. The supposed self-creation of the beetle resembles that of Khepri, who creates himself out of nothing. Moreover, the dung ball rolled by a dung beetle resembles the sun. As 'Plutarch' wrote: The race of beetles has no female, but all the males eject their sperm into a round pellet of material which they roll up by pushing it from the opposite side, just as the sun seems to turn the heavens in the direction opposite to its own course, which is from west to east.

The ancient Egyptians believed that Khepri renewed the sun every day before rolling it above the horizon, and then carried it through the other world after sunset, only to renew it, again, the next day. Some New Kingdom royal tombs exhibit a threefold image of the sun god, with the beetle as symbol of the morning sun. The astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Ramses VI portrays the nightly "death" and "rebirth" of the sun as being swallowed by Nut, goddess of the sky, and re-emerging from her womb as Khepri.

Featured photos: tomb of Ramses VI 'Tomb KV6' in the Valley of the Kings, where the Scarab is depicted on the walls.
Khepri, God of rebirth and the sunrise is often represented as a scarab or a scarab-headed man holding aloft the morning sun.