Chepre
| Chepre in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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That came into being (by itself) |
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| transcription | Ḫpr (j) | |||||
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Chepre (ancient Egyptian Cheper , also Kheperâ , Chepri , Khepri ) is an ancient Egyptian deity who symbolizes the sunrise and the morning sun.
presentation
This deity was mostly depicted as a scarab (dung beetle), more rarely as a person with a scarab head. Images in graves, on coffins or as pectorals show him with outspread wings.
meaning
His name means "the one who arose by himself", just as the Egyptians believed that the sun emerges from the earth every morning. The connection to the scarab is that it lays its eggs in a ball of dung and it seems that its young, like the primordial god himself, arise without an act of procreation. The beetle pushes the ball of dung in front of it like a ball, just as the scarab pushes the sun disk over the horizon in the morning.
Chepre is also associated with resurrection symbolism. In addition, he is only one of the three figures of the Re . Haracht embodies the midday sun and Aton the evening sun.
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd, unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 134.
