wall-sculptures

Updated: May 7, 2025

Miss Edwards, in her very interesting book, "A Thousand Miles up the Nile," thus speaks of it: "Every one knows how this scarab was adopted by the Egyptians as an emblem of creative power and the immortality of the soul; it is to be seen in the wall-sculptures, on the tombs, cut out in precious stones and worn as an ornament, buried in the mummy-cases, and a figure of the beetle forms a hieroglyph, and represents a word signifying 'To be and to transform. If actual worship was not paid to Scaraboeus Sacer, it was, at any rate, regarded with the greatest reverence and a vast amount of symbolism drawn from its various characteristics."

Mrs. (Eliza Elder) Brightwen - Wild Nature Won By Kindness