Khepri
A dung beetle-headed Egyptian god.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Ancient Egyptian deity representing the rising sun, often depicted as a scarab beetle.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Kinnara, Ichthyocentaurs, Scorpion man, Serpopard, Hathor, Sopdu, Ptah, Bast, Raet-tawy, Montu-Ra, Amun-Ra, Atum-Ra, Sia, Amun, Atum, Shu, Bes, Onuris, Apis, Bennu, Min, Montu, Nefertem, Heru-ur, Khonshu, Ma'at, Im-ho-tep, Geb, Seth, Apophis, Kherty, Hemtet, Iqeru, Jagw, centaur, Kurma, Anggitay, Sekhmet, Tefnut, Apep, Isis, Meretseger, Aten, Khnum, Horus, Set, Anubis, Maahes, Sobek, Thoth, Osiris
- manifests as
- Ra
- aspect of
- Ra
- has aspect
- Ra-Horakhty
- manifested by
- Ra
- child of
- Aker
Mentioned by
- centaur
- Kurma
- Anggitay
- Sekhmet
- Tefnut
- Apep
- Isis
- Meretseger
- Aten
- Khnum
- Horus
- Set
- Anubis
- Maahes
- Sobek
- Thoth
and 4 more
Sources
Source passages
“Khepri – A dung beetle-headed Egyptian god.”
#4790 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Khepri, god of the rising Sun, creation and renewal of life”
#15409 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Atum was linked specifically with the evening sun, while Ra or the closely linked god Khepri were connected with the sun at morning and midday. In the binary solar cycle, the serpentine Atum is contrasted with the scarab-headed god Khepri—the young sun god, whose name is derived from the Egyptian ḫpr "to come into existence".”
#16495 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Khepri was depicted as either a scarab holding aloft the sun disk or as a human male with a scarab for a head. The scarab amulets that the Egyptians used as jewelry and as seals allude to Khepri and the newborn sun. The beetle carvings became so common that excavators have found them throughout the Mediterranean.”
#16766 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Khepri was a scarab beetle who rolled up the Sun in the mornings and was sometimes seen as the morning manifestation of Ra. Similarly, the ram-headed god Khnum was also seen as the evening manifestation of Ra. The idea of different deities (or different aspects of Ra) ruling over different times of the day was fairly common but variable.”
#17152 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001