The Scarab Beetle, the most popular amulet of Egypt, is  a solar emblem of the cycle of genesis, rebirth and the eternal life force. This little dung beetle is strongly associated with Khepri, the Egyptian God of the rising sun. The beetle throwing the ball of the Sun into the basket of the Moon is imitating the Solar Eclipse, when the net of the moon will obscure the Sun.

Scarab beetles lay their eggs within dung balls. The Egyptians watched the young beetles emerge from the balls fully formed, relating them to emerging life and immortality. They also used scarab beetles in most of their rituals, especially funerary rituals placing gold scarab shaped accessories on amulets.