Khepri
- The Egyptians likened the activity of the scarab beetle pushing dung across the ground to the Sun as it moves across the sky.
- Khepri is the Sun God and creator in the form of a scarab.
- He is imagined to have created himself, not through reproductive means, thus represents the initial spark of life/creation.
- Usually depicted as a dung beetle, hard-winged beetle or a man with a head of a scarab.
- Sometimes linked to other aspects of the Sun God by being depicted with the head of a Ram.
- His colours are black, blue and gold.
(Lawson 1996)
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