animalBeetleBeings · NatureBeetle as an animal people have named and used. Persistence, armor, quiet labor — one living kind, not a single symbol.Egyptian religionBeetle appears in Egyptian religion.The Book of the Dead’s solar becoming speech and transformation spells keep the dung-beetle animal beside the scarab emblem — a named beetle creature in that funerary image-world, not the scarab amulet object already belonging to egyptian-religion.from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972appears in · sourced · culturally specificsourcesBook of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.