Dung beetles roll dung into a ball as food and as a brood
chamber in which to lay eggs . This way the eggs hatch , larvae find food &
appear from nowhere , making it a symbol of spontaneous creation , rebirth resurrection
and transformation. Laying its eggs in bodies of dead animals was a symbol of
life being created from dead matter. It came to represent the soul rising from
death. The rising sun god was depicted as a scarab beetle. He renewed the sun
every day before rolling it above the horizon, then carried it through the
other world after sunset, only to renew it again the next day. Rolling the dung
balls resemble the rolling or progression of the sun across the sky from east to
west .Thus the young sun was thought to be reborn in the form of a winged scarab
beetle every morn at sunrise , as he rose in the sky , he brought light and
life to the land.
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