Khepri – Egyptian Progenitor God, Spirit Of Life, Resurrection And The Rising Sun

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Khepri is one of the most important deities of Egyptian mythology. Khepri was the god of creation, the movement of the sun, life, and resurrection.

His name, Khepri, is also spelled as Khepera, Khepra, Kheper, and Chepri, which literally means "He Who is Coming into Being." The root word of 'Khepri' also means "to create" or "to transform," and it also refers to the "scarab beetle."

Relief, Khepri, baboons. Relief panel depicting two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the sign of the Underworld. On this relief panel, Khepri is depicted solely as a scarab beetle. Above his head, the sun god holds the Duat, a symbol for the afterlife. The scarab stands on a sun disk with sun rays extending downwards. 400–200 BC. Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. Metropolitan Museum of Art - CC0 1.0

Symbolism Of God Khepri

Khepri - the self-existent creator god - was associated with the scarab or dung beetle due to the scarab’s habit of rolling a ball of mud or dung along the ground.

Observing the insect’s behavior, the Egyptians interpreted it as analogous to the ball moving across the sky each day. Khepri was the god of the first sunrise at the dawn of creation, and sometimes he also symbolized the sun in general, which means he was linked to the solar god Ra. However, his main mythological role was that of the rising sun.

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