# Khepri · the rising sun · the scarab

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Khepri:NTR:982ea3⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *Helios (dawn aspect)* · Roman: *Sol Matutinus* — the rising sun — the morning face of Helios

**who —** Khepri, the dawn aspect of the sun — the scarab-beetle god who rolls the new sun up over the horizon.
**what —** The morning sun and the principle of becoming (his name, kheper, means ‘to come into being’); modelled on the dung-beetle that rolls its ball and seems to self-create from it.
**where —** The eastern horizon at dawn; the scarab amulet over every mummy's heart.
**why —** Because the Egyptians saw resurrection in a beetle pushing a ball of dung from which new life crawls — Khepri is renewal made literal.
**how —** By rolling the sun-disk up out of the night, as a scarab rolls its ball across the sand.

**the seal —** I push the new sun up out of the dark each morning — I am becoming itself, the proof that what set will rise.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · NTR · The Egyptian Pantheon · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0