The scarab beetle is a sacred amulet

You may have heard of sacred amulets and other Egyptian jewelry depicting sacred scarab beetles.
They are not mythological characters, was invented by the ancient Egyptians and the dung beetles.
These common beetles were linked to Egyptian gods and were depicted in jewelry and seals.
What is a scarab beetle?

Some species of dung beetles are generally known as scarabs.
Scarab beetles – the largest among beetles.
These beetles feed on feces, and therefore they are called dung.
Some scarabs not only eat feces, but even live in them.

There is one more category of scarabs that bury dung that they found.
The tendency of scarabs to the excrement were seen by ancient people and began to be associated with religion and God.
The ancient Egyptians considered the beetles as sacred and depicted their characters.
The Egyptian scarab beetle is still one of the most important symbols in Egypt.

Now we know that scarabs were considered sacred in ancient Egypt, and these insects were linked with religion and mythology.
Why are these beetles in Egypt was the sacred status?

As mentioned above, the people of ancient Egypt saw the connection between the dung and beetles-scarabs.
They decided that the young beetles appear in layers of excrement out of nowhere, and symbolically linked them to the God Khepri, God of the rising sun.

According to their faith, Khepri also created itself out of nothing.
The ancient Egyptians believed that, like Khepri, the scarab beetles also appear out of nowhere.
Even according to the beliefs existed only beetles-males.
Thus, the Egyptians began to associate the scarab beetles with God and began to use the symbolism of this beetle as a symbol of transformation, renewal and recovery.

The Egyptian scarab beetle was also associated with the Egyptian sun God RA.
According to Egyptian mythology, this God daily restores the Sun, roll it through the sky by day and carries it to another world, to the next day again to recreate it.
Scarab beetles that carry dung, compared with this God who carries the Sun.

This was the reason that this bug was attributed with a sacred status.
Egyptian scarab beetles were also an important symbol of ancient Egyptian funeral rites.

These beetles made from green stone, were placed on the chest of the deceased before burying him.
The ancient Egyptians depicted these beetles in temples, tombs, hieroglyphs, seals, jewelry and artwork.

Egyptian scarab beetles are used in different ways and now, for example, in jewelry and amulets.
This symbol means the restoration, renewal and transformation.