(25) 'The Scarab’s Chronicle'

How much can a tiny insect tell us about our relationship with nature?

This podcast episode unfolds as a chronicle—tracing one insect, the scarab, across time and place.

From the banks of the Nile in Ancient Egypt, to the French Alps twenty years ago, to today’s Mediterranean shores, and even millions of years back, when a scarab’s body lay buried until archaeologists uncovered it.

Why has an insect once worshipped as a god by our ancestors lost its place in our modern cities?

What made it so important that our ancestors kept it so close? What wisdom does it hold? And how can we rebuild this relationship—not only with it, but with other living beings?

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Sources:

• https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/khepri/

• https://www.naturalhistorycuriosities.com/insects/scarab-beetles-and-their-meaning-in-the-ancient-egyptian-history/

Cover: Illustration of Egyptian scarabs (public domain, from an early archaeological catalogue)

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