Khepri

Khepri ( ancient Egyptian Cheper, also Khepera, Khepri ) is an ancient Egyptian deity who symbolized the sunrise and the morning sun.

Representation

This deity was usually depicted as a scarab, more rarely, as a man with a scarab as a head. Illustrations in tombs, on coffins or as pectoral show him with outstretched wings.

Importance

Its name means " the ( self- ) emerged " as the Egyptians believed that the sun arose every morning of their own accord out of the earth. The connection to the scarab is that this lays its eggs in a ball of dung and it seems that his boys as the primordial god arise even without procreation. The beetle pushes the dung ball like a ball in front of him, so as to representations of scarab the solar disk in the morning pushes over the horizon.

Khepri is also associated with resurrection symbolism. He is also the only one of the three forms of Re. Harachte embodies the midday sun, and Atum, the evening sun.