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Not even sure that this will have any significance on the show, or if the writers even thought of this connection, but Im a nerd with these things- so I looked up the symbolism of the scarab beetle to see what it stood for in the ancient Egyptian mythology and found this-
The scarab was a symbol of the sun deity Khepri who was a personification of the morning sun in Egyptian mythology. This is a description from wiki—
-“because the scarab rolls balls of dung across the ground, an act that the Egyptians saw as a symbol of the forces that move the sun across the sky. Khepri was thus a solar deity. Young dung beetles, having been laid as eggs within the dung ball, emerge from it fully formed. Therefore, Khepri also represented creation and rebirth, and he was specifically connected with the rising sun and the mythical creation of the world. The Egyptians connected his name with the Egyptian language verb kheper, meaning “develop” or “come into being”. Kheper, is a transcription of an ancient Egyptian word meaning to come into being, to change, to occur, to happen, to exist, to bring about, to create, etc”
It also describes that the ancient Egyptians believed that the beetle was reborn from the dung. So the scarab basically is to the Egyptian myth, what the phoenix is to Greek myth. The scarab emerge from the dung, the phoenix from the ashes…
Emma is associated with the phoenix and now Aladdin is with the scarab.. again linking the two as Saviors in their own respective stories… I just thought that that was kinda’ cool.
[adrotate group="5"]I think the golden scarab was mostly just a nod to the golden scarab from the Disney film, the one that Jafar uses to reveal the Cave of Wonders.
I think the golden scarab was mostly just a nod to the golden scarab from the Disney film, the one that Jafar uses to reveal the Cave of Wonders.
I know, but I can stil see the parallel.. and so I think it’s a cool connection and wanted to share it with you guys, even if they didn’t actually write it in on purpose.
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