A symbol of regeneration/resurrection because of the scarab's practice of rolling a ball of dung across the ground (symbolising the sun's rolling journey of birth/death and rebirth across the sky from sunrise to sunset to sunrise) and fertilising the soil for growth/creation. The female scarab beetle laid and buried her eggs in the sand. When the eggs hatched the scarab beetles would seem to appear from nowhere, making it a symbol of spontaneous creation.

The name Khepera is said to signify both ‘scarab’ and ‘he who becomes’. Khepera as a deity represented the rising sun which, like the scarab beetle ‘emerges from its own substance and is reborn of itself’. In other words, the scarab and it’s representative divinity epitomised the continuing cycle of birth, death and rebirth through which all living essences must inevitably pass.