Working long hours, wish I could spend more time posting. I had hoped to have posted this earlier.
The myth of the African-Kemetic solar creator god Khepri is derived from manuscripts, pyramid texts, coffin texts, funerary papyri and the Book of Coming Forth from Darkness into Light or Book of Coming Forth by Day (Book of the Dead).
The people in ancient Africa-Kemet (Egypt) used education to understand religion. Education which includes science can help us all understand religion. For the sake of understanding, there should never be a separation of science/education from religion.
The scarab was as a spiritual symbol in Africa-Kemet, much like the cross is a spiritual symbol of Christianity. The scarab amulet was one of the most revered and worn pieces of jewelry in Africa-Kemet. The scarab in Africa-Kemet was associated with the mythical creator god Khepri, (Khepera, Kheper or Khepra).
The mythical solar creator god Khepri was depicted in art as man with the head of a scarab and associated with death, regeneration, metamorphosis, birth, rebirth, and resurrection.
Education and knowledge of the behavioral and mating habits of the scarab helps with understanding why the scarab was used as a religious symbol. The scarab (or dung beetle) trails animals around, waiting for them to eventually defecate. Many of Africa’s large animals are vegetarians like the elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, cow etc— and the scarab prefers the dung of vegetarian animals.
From: 10 Fascinating Facts About Dung Beetles
- Dung beetles eat poop.
Dung beetles are coprophagous insects, meaning they eat excrement of other organisms. Although not all dung beetles eat poop exclusively, they all eat feces at some point in their life. Most prefer to feed on herbivore droppings, which are largely undigested plant matter, rather than carnivore waste, which holds very little nutritional value for insects.
Recent research at the University of Nebraska suggests dung beetles may be most attracted to omnivore excrement, since it provides both nutritional value and the right amount of odor to make it easy to find.
The scarab or dung beetle collects the dung and depending on the scarab will roll it up into a round ball. They can roll up to fifty times their weight and pull over one thousand times their weight; equivalent to a human pulling a ton around.
The scarab rolls the dung to a secure place and buries it for food, or places eggs inside it after copulating with its partner. The eggs go through a metamorphosis, turn to larvae, the larvae feed on the dung, and newborn scarab beetles rise up out of the decaying dung. The people in Africa-Kemet were not worshiping a dung beetle; the scarab beetle atop the head of the mythical solar creator god Khepri, symbolized him as a solar creator god—and symbolized the creation of humans on earth.
Humans came from the earth, and when we die we go back into the earth if and when we are buried. Life on earth went through millions of years human development or metamorphosis for us to get to the stage of human development seen on earth today. The decaying dung represented death; the eggs and larvae inside the dung represented metamorphosis and regeneration; the newborn scarab beetles coming out of the dung represented birth and rebirth.
In myth the solar creator god Khepri, he was a sun god who also symbolized resurrection. In the myth of Khepri, he is symbolized as a scarab rolling the sun around in the sky.
He would roll the sun into the Underworld, below the western horizon iwhere the sun sets and finally to the eastern horizon, where the sun rises every morning. The mythical story symbolizes death and an everlasting life through resurrection.
Someone in Africa-Kemet had acquired the knowledge of the behavior and mating habits of scarabs in order to use the scarab in a creation myth. This is something that required hours of observation and study. This same African-Kemetic metaphoric and allegorical use of animals is also exhibited in the use of the falcon, hawk, jackal, hippopotamus, cobra, crocodile etc.
I will explain the metaphoric and allegorical use of the falcon, hawk, jackal, hippopotamus, cobra, crocodile and other animals (as well as the many African-Kemetic mythical gods and religious concepts that are much older and very similar to the much younger myths found in Judaism and Christianity) in other forum posts, as it would require much more space than one forum topic reply or post would allow.
The religion of Africa-Kemet was complex, sophisticated and used education to understand what myth was being conveyed. The religion of Africa-Kemet should not be reduced to thinking that when you see the use of animals, they are simply worshipping that animal. The same thing applies to the African-Kemetic use of symbols like the hexagram or Star of Creation (which is widely referred to as the Star of David), the Crook and Flail (Shepard’s tools) and practices as well as artistic depictions like Baptism and Judgment Day myths (depicted in several African-Kemetic judgment scenes like the “Judgment Scene of Ani”) respectively.
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that’s why there is a inherent danger of them becoming cold blooded murders. 
