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A beetle.

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scarab is another name for a dung beetle

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Scarabs were popular amulets in ancient Egypt. According to ancient Egyptian myths, the sun (Ra) rolls across the sky each day and transforms bodies and souls. Modeled upon the Scarabaeidae family dung beetle, which rolls dung into a ball for the purposes of eating and laying eggs that are later transformed into larva, the scarab was seen as an earthly symbol of this heavenly cycle. This came to be iconographic, and ideological symbols were incorporated into ancient Egyptian society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab_%28artifact%29  

 

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It's also a high powered pleasure boat...(high price as well)

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noun(also scarab beetle or sacred scarab )
a large dung beetle of the eastern Mediterranean area, regarded as sacred in ancient Egypt.
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scarab beetle
[Scarabaeus sacer, family Scarabaeidae (the scarab family). The scarab family also includes the smaller dung beetles and chafers, together with some very large tropical kinds such as Hercules, goliath, and rhinoceros beetles.]
• an ancient Egyptian gem cut in the form of this beetle, sometimes depicted with the wings spread, and engraved with hieroglyphs on the flat underside.
• any scarabaeid beetle.
ORIGIN late 16th cent. (originally denoting a beetle of any kind): from Latin scarabaeus, from Greek skarabeios .

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