From the Scarab to Understanding of Easter

It s so appropriate that today’s moon falls on Easter. The moon in Scorpio, and as I am looking into the symbolism of Scorpio, I can not help but see the similarities to the scarab beatle rolling his dung across the desert to be reborn, just like Scorpio represents life, death and transformation.

When ancient Egyptians thought about he movement of the sun across the sky, they imagined it by being in a boat moving across the ocean – Nun and being constricted by the sky – Nut.

Kephri is a sun god associated with scarab beetle. He not only symbolizes the beetle, he also closely represents him, pushing the sun across the sky to bring about continuous cycling of night and day, symbolizing resurrection, transcendence and renewal.

Amulet of the scarab beetle, represented as the god Kephri.

“Khepri in the morning, Ra at midday, and Atum in the evening.” – ancient Egyptian saying, and Kephri comes from the word Kheprer which is translated as scarab beetle, and comes from Kheper, which means to develop, or to come to being, and thus – the morning God emerging from the primeval waters in the morning sun, as the god Atum, the God of al creation. The Ra, as the full expression of the sun.

The emergence comes after a time of darkness, suffering, transformation and in a way the time of being lost. It’s all part of the cyclical nature of life.

But of course in the Roman-Greco mythology, the resurrection and creation has been linked to the goddess Oester, closely linked to Easter. She is closely linked to the Sumerian goddess Ishtar/Innana, and later Greek deity Persephone as the goddesses that came from darkness, defeating many adversities and transforming from the underworld, deeply immersed in the symbolism of transformation and resurrection. Astarte(Oester, Ostara) represents this transformation, but she is more of a celebratory figure that rejoices the time of fertility, new found life and growth.