what is a scarab?

Question

not the beetle, just scarab. a definition would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

By far the most important amulet in ancient Egypt was the scarab, symbolically as sacred to the Egyptians as the cross is to Christians.

Scarab dung beetles lay eggs in a pellet which they roll along and the Egyptians regarded this action as an image of the sun and its course through the heavens, rolled by a gigantic beetle. Scarabs are associated with the Egyptian god, Khepri. It was Khepri that pushed the sun across the sky. The scarab beetle became an ancient Egyptian symbol for rebirth, the ability to be reborn. Each day the sun disappeared, always to rise again and be reborn the following day.

The god Khepri, which literally means "He who is Coming into Being", was a creator god and a solar deity. He was represented as a scarab or dung beetle, or as a man with a beetle head. The scarab beetle was observed to roll it's eggs in a ball of dung along the ground, and the ball was identified with the sun. The baby beetles were seen to emerge from the primeval mound and so dung beetles were thought capable of spontaneous creation.

Answer 2

A scarab or scarab beetle may refer to:
A beetle which belong to the family Scarabaeidae.
A dung beetle, especially the Scarabaeus sacer worshipped by the ancient Egyptians (an amulet made by that people in the shape of the species is also called a scarab).
A war vehicle in the Halo video game series.
A race car constructor which was formed by Lance Reventlow.
Stout Scarab, limited production automobile
A NATO reporting name for the SS-21, Russian short-ranged tactical ballistic missile.
Wellcraft Scarab, a high performance speedboat built by US manufacturer Wellcraft
An open source Scarab Bug Tracking software.
Scarabeus, a game on the Commodore 64, known for its advanced 3D graphics at the time.
Scarab is a Content Bug Sharing System (CBS), in which you can track issues for all types of projects: technical and non-technical, and where you can insert new issues.
Scarab is a three-wheel tractor/truck, built by Scammell.
A living siege weapon from the strategy game Age Of Mythology.

Answer 3

Scarabs are real, they seem to be a variety of beetle. some American scarabs are Stag Beetles, Rhinoceros Beetles, June bugs, etc. there is an exceptionally colossal one noted as the Goliath Beetle, i do no longer undergo in suggestions what usa it comes from. I examine someplace that scarabs have been sacred to the classic Egyptians because of the fact they roll dung right into a ball, and that replaced into an emblem of the gods making the international. i assume the ball of dung is the place they positioned their eggs. That stuff approximately scarabs ingesting human beings interior the mother video clips replaced into particularly frightening, regardless of the undeniable fact that it is pretend. they do no longer relatively do this.

Answer 4

An scarab is an amulet made by the ancient Egyptians in the shape of the dung beetle.

Answer 5

There is no other definition for the word. However, the ancient Egyptians made small sculptures of those beetles, and those sculptures were also called "scarabs". If this is not what you are after, I give up and say sorry.

Answer 6

A scarab was a talismanic sculpture/jewelry piece of a dung beetle, usually carved out of steatite, or faience, or other ornamental green stone. It represented the sacred life-process, the Osirian mystery, the transformation of death into new life.

Answer 7

a scarab is an insect mainly living in Egypt that are good for getting rid of other animals poo. They are like a living recyle machine.

Answer 8

A dung Beetle they roll ball of feces into balls this represents the rolling of sun and Ra/ Re

Answer 9

Apart from the beetle, I don't think it's anything. You could be thinking of 'scabbard', which is the sheath in which a sword sits, attatched to the belt.

Answer 10

Thats all it is, the beetle.

A **** eating beetle.

However, they also ate dead flesh, and the egyptians believed that they protected souls as they crossed the Twelve Hours (journey to the realm of Osiris, where the soul is weighed.)