So historically it developed that Egyptians in an extreme antiquity were pagans and a part of this religion together with its ceremonies and sacraments was transferred to the present. So, modern residents of Egypt esteem still a scarab beetle as the sacred deity and a symbol of wealth and good luck.
Bug good luck
It is considered that if to get a figure of a bug and to store together with money, then they will surely increase. If you want to allure to the house good luck, then it is necessary to get a figure of a bug on a support, at the same time his pads have to touch it surely.
On a legend the scarab crept out of god Osiris's nostril that was apprehended as a symbol of the fastest revival deceased.
Value
The Ancient Egyptian state of a scarab beetle very much esteemed as it was considered as light of a rising sun. So, in Ancient Egyptian mythology there were several solar gods. And one of them was god of a morning rising sun Hepri who was designated in the form of the deity with the head of a scarab beetle. All the life the scarab beetle is engaged in the fact that he molds from a manure heap small balls with an ideal form. When the sphere takes the correct form, the bug lays eggs there. It constantly rolls a ball before itself(himself) within 28 calendar days on a trajectory which in accuracy repeats solar. For the 29th day the bug throws a ball into water from where its posterity appears. Exactly thanks to such way of birth of posterity of a bug and also a trajectory which in accuracy coincided with a solar orbit of a scarab brought sacred insects to the level. Its activity was associated at ancient Egyptians with an eternal sacrament of the birth and death which personified the Sun.
Divine embodiment
God of a morning rising sun Hepri with the head of a scarab beetle was allocated with ability to revive after death. Therefore the scarab beetle was a mascot at ancient Egyptians not only during all life, but also after withdrawal in another world as they believed that there is life eternal. This sense was born in himself by a scarab beetle.
At production of a mummy in Egypt it was accepted to put in human heart a heart from a stone or mineral with the image of a scarab as the sign of imperishability and regeneration.
Besides, the scarab beetle, according to Ancient Egyptian mythology, personified the tests which fell to lot of the person, to be exact his souls. Therefore these bugs were mummified and placed in burials that it accompanied soul in another world. In life the terrestrial scarab beetle at ancient residents of Egypt also symbolized wisdom which is received by the pupil in the course of knowledge of the truth. Was considered that people for achievement of the goals have to adopt persistence with which the bug molds the balls.