Jepri

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Jepri
===God that create him self, symbolized life. This god has human form and head beetle, also symbolized as a golden beetle made ​​of gold and a gold chain or silver, has wings that unfold from the lower legs to the top and holds a gold discus .===

In the tombs is represented sitting in the boat of the sun. The egipsians didnt know how to represent him so he was the god of the resurrection.
=== Among the great finds that would yield the exploration of the tomb of Tutankhamun, one of the most fascinating surprises was located inside a chest in the chamber of the Treasury. There, removed by looters seeking old, Howard Carter found a group of jewelry among which was a breastplate representing a winged scarab is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and attractive representations of one of the most repeated in Egyptian iconography .===

=== The insect, made ​​ of lapis lazuli , displays a colorful wings that curve and culminate with the figure of a solar disk. The design is achieved thanks to the procedure set with inlaid cloisonné, a technique of great tradition in Pharaonic Egypt. In the visible part of the back is a single large ring support that allowed the jewel is hung from a cord or possibly chain. The bed of gold also briefly present ornate, standing by beetle chiseled forms , their wings, etc. . ( The truth is that the work is somewhat coarse and are significant misalignments and inaccuracies. ===

=== With respect to resources plastics used in the breastplate ,we must highlight the color contrast achieved in the wings, and the design makes curling and extend into the solar disk. It is a symmetrical composition, with an elegant effect gets up and shift attention to the solar disk. Also be observed that the design of the wings is an area left without fouling, which provides a somewhat extensive surface gold on each side of the front legs of the beetle. This emphasizes the presence of these legs, preventing it could be diluted by the color and mottling of the wings , where the blue, the same as that of the animal's feet , is dominant. ===

=== The other two legs of the animal, of secondary importance, practically merge with the prevailing blues. Also noteworthy that the animal has only four legs, when in fact the dung beetle has six. Seems that the central limbs are sacrificed to not interfere with the design and achieve a much more harmonic. ===

=== The solar disc of remarkable dimensions, attracts attention. The color of the carnelian helps to enhance your presence, as in the rest of the jewel tones prevail blue and green , red relegating only to small details that serve to provide rate and the composition balance. In addition, the disc is especially striking when placed on an axis of symmetry and by the design of the wings. Wings that get the whole acquires a rounded pectoral, reiterating the allusion to the disk and further enhancing the solar concept implicit symbolism of the jewel. To this add that further underlining the image of the sun made ​​a fairly wide edged the embedding environment, marking a profile of gold in its surrounding environment does not appear any other element of the pectoral .By Jepri was critical implications in the context cosmogony and mythology attributed the power to move the giant ball that illuminates the whole of creation, becoming engine of all existence. An existence that is also able to regenerate and perpetuate, so that the beetle was closely linked to the beliefs of afterlife and the propitiation of eternity. Certainly the insect's life journey involved a comparison or reference in regard to the completion of the funeral expectations: to achieve eternity buried with renewed energy, emerging from the desert sand into a new life.===

===The dung beetle is one of the more traditional images of Egyptian iconography, one of the most common symbols. Their representation became a popular amulet, which were granted protective capabilities and propitiating, and of which many examples have been found. Even on the mummies, in the chest, often placed a kind of amulet called "heart scarab", absorbing this powerful engine of existence with the block of the human body and, according to Egyptian belief, also home to the thought and awareness===