Skarabeus (scarab in english) was a holy dung-beetle for egyptians. Egyptians saw a similarity in scarabs behaviour of rollig dung-balls and sun's trip over the sky. Egyptian sungod Ra was often depicted as a scarab, representing early morning sun Khepri.I wrote Skarabeus as a story in highshool several years ago and I did it for fun. I was obsessed with egyptian culture and mythology (I even started learning hieroglyphs on my own). I thought that the hero of my story must be a tortured mummy.I also decided, that my story must contain a higher moral and I chose punishing greed. Then, hardly a year went by and I started thinking of putting the story into a comic-form. I started drawing in summer 2001 and the comic was finished half year later. It was my first serious comic.
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2009-04-06
