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Jepri, the god Sol, autocreated, symbol of the eternal life in the Egyptian mythology.
Iconography: Beetle pushing to the Sun for the sky. Man with head of beetle.
Jepri was created to yes the same every morning, being reborn as the new Sun, that's why it was linked by Atum, god autocreated Sol. As symbol of the eternal life, the sun of the morning, was a declaration of the god Ra. According to the Texts of the Pyramids, the Earth was an spitting of Jepri.
It symbolizes the beginning of the transformations that experience the alive beings, since they are born until they die, even of his renaissance if they were overcoming the tests in the otherworld.
His principal sanctum was in Iunu (Heliópolis), next to Cairo.
The beetle used in the funeral rituals, was one of the most popular amulets of Egypt.
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