Summary
Khepri is the morning sun god, depicted as a scarab beetle pushing the sun disk across the sky. The scarab was sacred because it rolls dung into perfect spheres—a perfect metaphor for transformation and self-creation. Khepri encodes the principle of becoming, perpetual transformation. He is the sun at dawn, distinct from Ra (daytime) and Atum (sunset/primordial). (المصدر: raw/egyptian/إعادة_قراءة_الأساطير_المصرية.md)
Symbolic Reading
Khepri = the perpetual roller. The dung-sphere he pushes = the sun disk. The labor = the constant effort of transformation required to sustain cosmos. Rolling = eternal becoming, not stasis. (المصدر: raw/egyptian/إعادة_قراءة_الأساطير_المصرية.md)