Khepri – God of Rebirth.

Khepri was the Ancient Egyptian god of the rising sun, creation, and the renewal of life…but why a beetle for a head? Egyptians observed scarab beetles…

Egyptians observed scarab beetles rolling balls of dung across the ground. They connected this action to how Khepri pushed the sun across the sky every morning.

Scarabs lay eggs inside dung balls, and young beetles emerge fully formed. Because they could not see the hidden eggs, ancient Egyptians believed scarabs were born out of nothing.

A famous passage in the Book of The Dead has the deceased soul boldly declaring: "I am a scarab, the son of the morning sun. I roll up the ball of the sun and give it to Re".