Scarab
The scarab is the most famous and known symbol of the culture of ancient Egypt. There is no such person in the world that has never heard about scarab and has never seen it. Nowadays the scarab is an element of jewellery people create and is considered as one of the most beautiful shapes for rings and necklaces etc. The scarab is a bug that lived at the ancient Egypt and was a symbol of a sun. The ancient Egyptians took the scarab as an implementation of sun and eternal power of sun.
The culture of ancient Egypt is peculiar for the fact that all their beliefs were based on watching after the natural events. The ancient Egyptians considered a nature to be the most wise teacher and so they cognized the world and life through natural processes. So, as they were watching after living creatures and their activity they noticed a tiny bug that followed the motion of sun. People noticed that the tiny bug forms spheres of shapeless muck till they become a perfect sphere. As muck takes a shape of sphere the scarab rolls it after the motion of sun from east to west, just like the sun moves before the sunset.
After that the scarab digs a hole and place there muck-sphere for twenty-eight days. During those days the grubs grow up inside of that sphere. A day 29th is a day when scarab digs out the sphere and throws it into water in order to let the tiny bugs out. So, the Egyptians came to conclusion that a scarab is born of darkness just like the sun is. So, they implemented the glory and power of sun in that tiny bug and took it as earthily implementation of sun. Such implementation was also resulted with the fact that a scarab flies during the time when a sun is at its zenith.
Later the scarab becomes an implementation of morning sun that comes back of the darkness and the third god of sun appeared. According to religion of ancient Egyptian there were two gods of sun the god of day sun and the god of night sun, but the scarab became a symbol of god of morning sun. It was symbol of endlessness of life. They believed that if a sun is able to come back from the darkness than people are also able to come back from any darkness.
The scarab became a symbol of immortality of emperors. During the ceremony of mummification the ceramic heart was placed to chests of emperor instead of the real one. Those ceramic hearts were decorated with a depiction of scarab as a symbol of god in the heart of emperor and as guaranty that he will find his way out of darkness with the help of scarab. Egyptians believed that a heart of a person is a chamber where the wisdom is, and so they considered a heart as predominant organ of all humans. The scarab placed in the heart of pharaoh was a symbol of his immortal wisdom and glory.