Description
Here's a first look at my new model sets (now in beta). Yeah, yeah, yeah... I've love the beetles. There will be a base set with the Pincate ("Stink") Beetle and the m/f Stag Beetle, and an add-on set with 8 more species. This image features one of the 8 beetles in the add-on set, the Sacred Scarab.
The Sacred Scarab is a type of dung beetle. It is native of southern Europe, northern Africa and western Asia, and it was venerated in ancient Egypt. It has been recorded from Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France (including Corsica), Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Jordan, India (Kashmir), Libya, Mauritania, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Pakistan, Romania, Portugal, Russia (southernmost), Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Turkistan and Ukraine. In Europe, much of its distribution is in coastal regions near the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, where it often inhabits dunes and marshes. Their diet consists of fruit, fungi, carrion, and insects.
It is the most famous of the scarab beetles. To the Ancient Egyptians, it was a symbol of Khepri, the early morning manifestation of the sun god Ra, from an analogy between the beetle's behavior of rolling a ball of dung across the ground and Khepri's task of rolling the sun across the sky. They accordingly held the species to be sacred. The Egyptians also observed young beetles emerging from the ball of dung, from which they mistakenly inferred that the male beetle was able to reproduce without needing a female, simply by injecting his sperm into the ball of dung. From this, they drew parallels with their god Atum, who also begat children alone.
Comments (4)
Clever title & great artwork!
You models are super !
Wonderful work!
Love the title :D