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Scarab Beetle, window inside Avery Mausoleum, Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan
Scarab, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
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Beetle or Scarab
The Scarab Beetle symbolizes renewal and regeneration.
It laid its eggs in a ball of dung that was rolled across the ground. This act was related by the ancient Egyptians to the sun's heavenly circuit and its daily renewal.
Source: A. Dale Northrup, Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery (Great Britain: Arcadia Publishing, 2003), 112.
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