From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved "Volume III - Gods/Goddesses of Ancient Egypt"

KHEPRI (Khepera, Khepra, Khephra, Khephera, Keper)

To return to the Sagittarius Decan (The netjer of the season of Peret I), Capricornus Decan (The netjer of the season of Peret II), Aquarius Decan (The netjer of the season of Peret III), Pisces Decan (The netjer of the season of Peret IV), Cancer Decan (scarab beetle), or List of Netjeru.

    Khepri means "scarab" or "he who becomes" or "He who is coming into being of himself."
    Seen as a Creator god in the form of a beetle or scarab, noted in the Fifth Dynasty (2494-2345 B.C.) in the Pyramid Texts.    Also can be seen as a man with a beetle (scarab) in place of a human head or as a boat with a scarab.    Manifested as the rising sun as it rose on the western horizon, after being born out of the womb of his mother Nut, the night sky.
    Khephra (Keper) is the creator-god (Heliopolis) a form of Ra.    It is also the word for "scarab beetle," or dung beetle, considered symbolic of the sun (as in rolling a ball of dung) and as the sun god propelling the sphere of the sun through the sky.
    The hieroglyph for a beetle is .
    The netjer of the season Peret I-IV (Pert, Printemps) - seed time, Proyet, meaning "Emergence) from Sagitarrius-Pisces was Khepri.
    Khephera, the sacred scarab, identified with the fourth plague of Egypt regarding flies (beetles) coming onto the land.

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    This file was created on June 18, 2005.

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