Khepri is the scarab-faced neter of dawn and self-creation, whose name derives from the verb kheper — 'to come into being,' 'to transform' — making him the living embodiment of becoming itself. The Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead invoke him as the form Ra takes at sunrise, rolling the solar disk above the eastern horizon just as the dung beetle rolls its sphere across the sand. His hieroglyph (𓆣) functions simultaneously as the god's name, the verb 'to become,' and the noun 'transformation,' collapsing the distinction between symbol, agent, and process. Khepri represents the Egyptian conviction that creation is not a single past event but a perpetual self-generating emergence — kheperu, the 'becomings,' that renew the world each dawn.