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by justwalt » August 16th, 2010, 8:50 pm
well... that response was heavily editted.
what you see are the positive notes...
which just happen to work "as is", meaning
i like the haiku.
my left brain wanted to say this...
Scarab dung beetles lay eggs in a pellet which they roll along, and the Egyptians regarded this action as an image of the sun and its course through the [heavens], rolled by a gigantic beetle.
The scarab represents the Egyptian god, Khepri. It was Khepri that pushed the sun across the [sky].
The scarab beetle became an ancient Egyptian symbol for rebirth, the ability to be reborn. Each day the sun disappeared, always to rise again and be reborn the following day.
so, in the haiku, sky and heaven are are surely
synonymous. but spiritually, they are quite not.
that the whole conception celebrates rebirth is a
testiment to the anchient's attention to detail.
walt
