Beetle of the Dawn Necklace

The Sacred Beetle That Carried the Sun 🌞

In ancient Egypt, people believed the sun didn’t rise on its own. Each morning, it was carried across the sky by a sacred beetle named Khepri, a god of transformation, symbolized not by crowns or thunder but by the quiet persistence of a scarab. They watched real beetles rolling perfect spheres of earth through the desert and saw in them the same rhythm as the rising sun. To them, the scarab was not just an insect. It was a reminder that life returns, that even after long darkness, light finds its way back.

They began to wear scarab-shaped amulets made of gold, lapis, or carved stone, not for beauty but to hold something much deeper. These symbols were placed over the heart in life and in death, meant to guide the soul through change and into renewal. Gold, believed to be the flesh of Ra, the sun god himself, made the scarab even more divine. Wearing it wasn’t just adornment. It was a form of prayer. It was belief made visible.

The scarab became a symbol of rebirth, of the sacred cycle that allows us to begin again and again. It carried the hope that we are never truly lost, only in the process of becoming something new. Thousands of years have passed, but that instinct still lives in us. We reach for jewellery when we want to feel grounded, when we need to remember something invisible, when we want to hold meaning close to the skin. We don’t wear it just to be seen, we wear it to feel, to heal, to remember. Because at its core, jewellery is a quiet ritual. And sometimes, the smallest symbols carry the greatest power.