. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. T. A. Gerald Strickland, , who The Sacred suPP^es ^ie *w0 photographs on Scarabseus of this page, writes: "To the ento- the Egyptians. mologist ^ beetle ig snnply looked upon as a more or less interesting example of the family Scarabceiche, and the knowledge that the large balls made by these insects of a mixture of clay and camel's dung are simply reserve supplies of food for themselves or their larvEe knocks any later mysticism on the head. With the ancient Egyptians it was far otherwise.
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. T. A. Gerald Strickland, , who The Sacred suPP^es ^ie *w0 photographs on Scarabseus of this page, writes: "To the ento- the Egyptians. mologist ^ beetle ig snnply looked upon as a more or less interesting example of the family Scarabceiche, and the knowledge that the large balls made by these insects of a mixture of clay and camel's dung are simply reserve supplies of food for themselves or their larvEe knocks any later mysticism on the head. With the ancient Egyptians it was far otherwise. The sight of these beetles' peculiar evolutions as they rolled spheres larger than themselves over the desert, and also the fact that the creatures seemed to appear. and disappear from and to they knew not where, naturally was quite inexplicable to these ancient peoples ; consequently the insects were held in great reverence— not to say awe. According to Pliny the scarabseus was worshipped as one of the gods of the country: but be that as it may, as an emblem and symbol it abounded. Representations of the beetle in the sculptures are ex- tremely numerous. It was an emblem of the sun (to which deity it was particu- larly sacred), symbolically represented the world, wag an emblem of Ptah, the Creative Power, of Ptah- Socharis-Osiris, of the world, and finally was connected with astronomical subjects and with funeral ; SACRED Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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