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'''Khepri''', '''Khepera''', '''Kheper''', '''Chepri''' ou '''Khepra''' é o nome de um deus maior egípcio. Khepri é associado com o escaravelho (Kepher), cujo comportamento de manter esferas de estrume representa a força que move o sol. Khepri gradualmente foi considerado como uma personificação do próprio sol, e depois foi uma deidade solar. Para explicar onde o sol vai à noite, tal empurramento foi extendido ao mundo subterrâneo, onde o trabalho de Khepri cesa.
'''Khepri''', '''Khepera''', '''Kheper''', '''Chepri''' ou '''Khepra''' é o nome de um deus maior egípcio. Khepri é associado com o escaravelho (Kepher), cujo comportamento de manter esferas de estrume representa a força que move o sol. Khepri gradualmente foi considerado como uma personificação do próprio sol, e depois foi uma deidade solar. Para explicar onde o sol vai à noite, tal empurramento foi extendido ao mundo subterrâneo, onde o trabalho de Khepri cesa.


Since the scarab beetle lays its eggs in the bodies of various dead animals, including other scarabs, and in dung, from which they emerge having been born, the ancient Egyptians believed that scarab beetles were created from dead matter. Because of this, they also associated the Khepri with rebirth, renewal, and resurrection. Indeed, his name (kheper in Egyptian) means to come into being. As a result of this, when the rival cult of the sun-god Ra gained significance, Khepri was identified as the aspect of Ra which constitutes only the dawning sun (i.e the sun when it comes into being).
Desde que o escaravelho deposita seus ovos em corpos de vários animais mortos, incluindo outros escaravelhos, e no esterco, do qual eles emergem tendo nascido, os antigos egípcios acreditavam que o escaravelho era criado da matéria morta. Por causa disso, eles também associaram Khepri com renascimento, renovação, e ressurreisção. De fato, seu nome (kheper em egípcio) significa "vir a existir". Como resultado disso, quando o culto rival do deus-sol [[Rá]] ganhou significância, Khepri foi identificado como o aspecto de [[Rá]] que constitui o amanhecer do sol, isto é, o sol quando ele vem a existir.


Subsequently, when Ra and Atum became identified as one another, Khepri, which was Ra's young form, became conflated with Nefertum, which was Atum's. This led to a cosmogony where Ra, as Khepri, a beetle, resulted from the Ogdoad's activities, and emerged from a (blue) lotus flower, only to immediately transform into Nefertum, a youth, who, after growing up, masturbated the Ennead into existence.
Subsequently, when Ra and Atum became identified as one another, Khepri, which was Ra's young form, became conflated with Nefertum, which was Atum's. This led to a cosmogony where Ra, as Khepri, a beetle, resulted from the Ogdoad's activities, and emerged from a (blue) lotus flower, only to immediately transform into Nefertum, a youth, who, after growing up, masturbated the Ennead into existence.


Khepri was principally depicted as a whole scarab beetle, though in some tomb paintings and funerary papyri he is represented as a human male with a scarab as a head. He is also depicted as a scarab in a solar barque held aloft by Nun. When represented as a scarab beetle, he was typically depicted pushing the sun across the sky every day, as well as rolling it safely through the Egyptian underworld every night. As an aspect of Ra, he is particularly prevalent in the funerary literature of the New Kingdom, when many Ramesside tombs in the Valley of the Kings were decorated with depictions Ra as a sun-disc, containing images of Khepri, the dawning sun, and Atum, the setting sun.
Khepri was principally depicted as a whole scarab beetle, though in some tomb paintings and funerary papyri he is represented as a human male with a scarab as a head. He is also depicted as a scarab in a solar barque held aloft by Nun. When represented as a scarab beetle, he was typically depicted pushing the sun across the sky every day, as well as rolling it safely through the Egyptian underworld every night. As an aspect of Ra, he is particularly prevalent in the funerary literature of the New Kingdom, when many Ramesside tombs in the Valley of the Kings were decorated with depictions Ra as a sun-disc, containing images of Khepri, the dawning sun, and Atum, the setting sun.

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Khepri


Khepri, Khepera, Kheper, Chepri ou Khepra é o nome de um deus maior egípcio. Khepri é associado com o escaravelho (Kepher), cujo comportamento de manter esferas de estrume representa a força que move o sol. Khepri gradualmente foi considerado como uma personificação do próprio sol, e depois foi uma deidade solar. Para explicar onde o sol vai à noite, tal empurramento foi extendido ao mundo subterrâneo, onde o trabalho de Khepri cesa.

Desde que o escaravelho deposita seus ovos em corpos de vários animais mortos, incluindo outros escaravelhos, e no esterco, do qual eles emergem tendo nascido, os antigos egípcios acreditavam que o escaravelho era criado da matéria morta. Por causa disso, eles também associaram Khepri com renascimento, renovação, e ressurreisção. De fato, seu nome (kheper em egípcio) significa "vir a existir". Como resultado disso, quando o culto rival do deus-sol ganhou significância, Khepri foi identificado como o aspecto de que constitui o amanhecer do sol, isto é, o sol quando ele vem a existir.

Subsequently, when Ra and Atum became identified as one another, Khepri, which was Ra's young form, became conflated with Nefertum, which was Atum's. This led to a cosmogony where Ra, as Khepri, a beetle, resulted from the Ogdoad's activities, and emerged from a (blue) lotus flower, only to immediately transform into Nefertum, a youth, who, after growing up, masturbated the Ennead into existence.

Khepri was principally depicted as a whole scarab beetle, though in some tomb paintings and funerary papyri he is represented as a human male with a scarab as a head. He is also depicted as a scarab in a solar barque held aloft by Nun. When represented as a scarab beetle, he was typically depicted pushing the sun across the sky every day, as well as rolling it safely through the Egyptian underworld every night. As an aspect of Ra, he is particularly prevalent in the funerary literature of the New Kingdom, when many Ramesside tombs in the Valley of the Kings were decorated with depictions Ra as a sun-disc, containing images of Khepri, the dawning sun, and Atum, the setting sun.