monthoffearart: “Khepra” — Jeszkia Le Vye The night evaporates around him, like a
monthoffearart: “Khepra” — Jeszkia Le Vye The night evaporates around him, like a shroud he shrugs off the underworld, unveiling the glorious rekindling of light. The sun rises yet again. Khepra is the Egyptian god of the rising sun and represented eternal rebirth of the day, the primordial dawning of the universe. The Egyptians had many sun gods, often described as being various incarnations of the same god. Ra, Amun and Ptah were generally considered sun gods in the sense of the noon day sun - whereas Khepra was the god of the rising sun and Atum was the god of the setting sun. Khepra represented not only rebirth, but change itself and his name means ‘to become’. Khepra was associated with the scarab beetle and the ubiquitousness of the scarab symbol in Egyptian culture shows how important the idea of rebirth and transformation was to them. My newest painting for Month of Fear - for the prompt Night. -- source link
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