"Amen-Ra, the  Sun-God, says that  he took upon himself  the form of Kheperå,  i.e., that he was the god who was most intimately connected  with the creation of  things of every kind. Kheperå was symbolized by a scarab, or dung beetle . . . which having laid its eggs in masses of dung, rolled them about until they became circular in form. These balls, though made of dead, inert matter, contained the germs of life, which, under the influence of warmth and heat, grew, and in due course developed into living creatures which could move about and seek their food . . .  the Egyptians associated the sun's disk with the dung ball of the scarab, partly on account of its shape, and partly because it was the source of heat, and light, and life to man, even as the dung ball was to the young scarabs. 

"Having once got the idea that the disk of the sun was like a ball of the scarab, they went a step farther, and ima- gined that it must be pushed across the sky by a gigantic scarab just as the dung ball was rolled over the ground by a scarab on earth, and in pictures of the sunrise we actu- ally see the disk being pushed up or forward  into the sky by a scarab. Gradually the ideas of new life, resurrection, life in a new form, and the like, became attached to the scarab, and the god with the attributes of the scarab, among which in later days was included the idea of self production, became one of the most important of the forms of Ra, and the creator of heaven, and earth and the Tuat and all that is in them."

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