1) Ancient Egyptian concept 2) Animal god 3) Solar god
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Khepri (also spelled Khepera, Kheper, Khepra, Chepri) is a god in ancient Egyptian religion. ==Symbolism== Khepri was connected with the scarab beetle (kheprer), because the scarab rolls balls of dung across the ground, an act that the Egyptians saw as a symbol of the forces that move the sun across the sky. Khepri was thus a solar deity. Young du...
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(from the article `Egyptian religion`) ...the less powerful that deity was. All the main gods acquired the characteristics of creator gods. A single figure could have many names: among ... ...of chaos. At creation he emerged to engender himself and the gods. He was identified with the setting sun and was shown as an aged figure who had ...
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an ancient Egyptian deity, Khepri`s association with the dung beetle and his role as a sun god resulted in his depiction as a man with a beetle on his head or with a beetle head rolling the sun and moon across the sky.
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A scarab headed god. The Egyptians believed that Khepri pushed the sun across the sky in much the same fashion that a dung beetle (scarab) pushed a ball of dung across the ground.
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