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The Scarab, or dung-beatle, hieroglyph has gained a somewhat misunderstood status in a modern context. The symbolic importance comes from the activity of dung-beatle and its interpretation by the Egyptians. The dung-beatle spends a substantial part of its life rolling balls of dung as a nest for its eggs. The original dung-beatle then dies, and a new beatle hatches out of the rolled dung. The Egyptians, ignorant of the eggs part, saw the creation of the dung ball as a burial ritual - the dung itself as a repository for the beatle's spirit from which the beatle rises from again.
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