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The scarabs, which represent Khepri, are each pushing a sun. The god was connected to and often depicted as a scarab beetle (ḫprr in Egyptian). Scarab beetles lay their eggs within dung balls, and as a result, young beetles emerge from the balls fully formed, having eaten their way out of the mounds. [7]
Scarabs are used as the monetary unit of planet Sauria (originally known as Dinosaur Planet) in the 2002 video game Star Fox Adventures. Scarabs appear in droves in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. They deal damage to Lara Croft throughout the game. In Dungeons and Dragons, there is a magic item called the Scarab of Protection. It protects its ...
Insects have appeared in literature from classical times to the present day, ... the fly is a symbol of the children involved. Improvidence
Scarabaeus sacer is the most famous of the scarab beetles. [14] To the Ancient Egyptians, S. sacer was a symbol of Khepri, the early morning manifestation of the sun god Ra, from an analogy between the beetle's behaviour of rolling a ball of dung across the ground and Khepri's task of rolling the sun across the sky. [15]
Example scarab bottom):Medium to moderate size scarab, with horizontal text. (Text always reads into the faces of animals, right-to-left, this scarab.) The Wild-Cattle Hunt by Amenhotep III in the IInd Year of his Reign-(2nd year) Scarab Giving the Names of the Father and Mother of Queen Ti
Scarab (comics), a number of different comic book characters; Scarab, a 1997 first-person shooter; Scarab, a fictional dinghy in Arthur Ransome's children's novel The Picts and the Martyrs; The Scarab Murder Case, a 1929 book "Scarab", a song by Northlane from Singularity, 2013 "Scarabs", a song by Karnivool from Themata, 2005
The Callichroma splendidum, though not technically a scarab but a species of longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae), has a gold head and slightly gold-tinted body. The black spots noted on the back of the fictional bug can be found on the Alaus oculatus , a click beetle also native to Sullivan's Island.
A "scarabaeus" is also a now outdated term (OED 2) for an object in the form of a scarab beetle in art. The scarab was a popular form of amulet in Ancient Egypt, [3] and in ancient Greek art engraved gems were often carved as scarabs on the rest of the stone behind the main flattish face, which was used for sealing documents. [4]