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| Published: May.17.2008 @ 5:31 pm | ||
This morning, after cleaning, mopping, and laundry, I spied a shiny object on the couch. A beetle, but not just any beetle, it was a golden beetle. It looked dead to me, so I put it aside next to my candle, incense holder and with rocks I have picked up from the Mar de Menor and Valencia. Half an hour later, I went over to look at it. Not there. It was a bit to the right of where I had placed it. Clearly not dead. So fetched the camera and decided this was a moment to capture. I put the little thing on a box of plates David was given in Turkey, velvet. Took some pictures but had to really jack up the speed of the ISO(ASA) to 400 to get anything to show up. Too grainy, so I took the beetle outside on a table and it was a cooperative subject. The whole time I was feeling enormously lucky having seen it. A number of things could have happened. I might never have seen it and it would have disappeared. I could have sat on it and crushed it. But,no--it survived the interior of this house.
It's amazing. I had added it to my collection and it dared to walk away. That will teach me. So in these photos you see the beauty of something that originally was probably a dung beetle. I left it outside and voila it flew away, or hobbled away. I guess beetles fly. Having forgotten the Egyptian meanings for the beetle, I googled, scarab and beetle. Then I remember, a few years ago a scarab fell out of the air into my hands as I was walking out the backdoor of my house. It was perfect but dead. It was during a time when a number of flying objects were showing up- an unusual wasp invaded the front yard and the dead beetle. Signs of resurrection and shifting. Here's the scoop on the scarab.... According to their ancient texts, the Egyptians believed that the scarab beetle came into being spontaneously from balls of dung and they associated this with their religious ideology of self-creation and resurrection. Thus, the scarab beetle was worshiped under the name Khepri (meaning 'he who has come into being' or 'he who came forth from the earth'). As a self-created deity, Khepri became synonymous with the creator-god, Atum, of earlier times. Furthermore, in the same way that the scarab beetle pushed a ball of dung before it, the Egyptians imagined that Khepri rolled the sun (the solar 'ball') across the sky from east to west each day, and so they also regarded Khepri as a form of the sun-god, Ra (or Re). Hence, the scarab became an important symbol of creation, resurrection and everlasting life in the religious mythology of ancient Egypt. Small jars and coffins containing dried (mummified) scarabs were often placed in Egyptian tombs as part of their ancient funeral rites to ensure eternal resurrection (ref. 1). (1) W.A. Ward, 1978, Studies on Scarab Seals Volume 1 Pre-12th Dynasty Scarab Amulets, Aris & Phillips, Warminster. I am NOT claiming to be a deity, but who cannot claim growing and transforming in some ways who we have been and when I'm cremated-no beetles in the urn. I'm sure lots of folks would love for me to transform even more- especially my children who walk the other way at mention of my spiritual adventures. So we will see what this means to me. It did strike me that my friend Johanna who has just had throat surgery might hold onto this image as part of her recovery. Certainly resurrection means a dying of the old and a new way of being coming into existence. |
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