Animal symbolism
Beetle
What the tradition holds
Read as renewal, especially through the Egyptian scarab, which rolled the sun across the sky.
Where that reading came from
The scarab rolls a ball of dung and lays its egg inside, and the young emerge from it. The Egyptians read that as self creation.
Beetles are a quarter of all known animal species. Specificity matters here more than in most entries.
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