You may know him as Khepri, Khepra, Khepera or Khepre. He was one of one of the creator gods and depicted as a scarab beetle or as a man with a scarab for a head. The Egyptians observed young scarab beetles emerging spontaneously from balls of dung and associated them with the process of creation. Khepre was one of the first gods, self-created, and his name means “he who has come into being”. It was thought that Khepre rolled the sun across the sky in the same way a dung beetle rolls balls of dung across the ground.