Beetle
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a beetle · khunfusah · the beetle · the scarab · خنفسة
spoken of as
1 expressionthe beetle1 mention
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
how should it occur to a man to believe himself descended from a serpent, a beetle, an onion or the like?
in the texts
Stromata
The scarab beetle, used as an Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for the sun.
the other stars, on account of their oblique course, they likened to the bodies of serpents, but the sun to that of the beetle, since it moulds a round shape out of ox-dung and rolls it facing it.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The insect named in the list of absurd ancestors, chosen for its smallness and meanness to make the doctrine ridiculous.
how should it occur to a man to believe himself descended from a serpent, a beetle, an onion or the like?