# Yesod's Scarab Machine *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Jan 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Jordan *09 Jan 2000, 15:44* > At 10:32 PM 4/30/98 EDT, you wrote: > > Friends, > > Could someone tell me what the scarab machine in Yesod does? Thanks, > > Christopher R. Culver Did this ever get answered? In ancient Egypt, the scarab or dung-beetle pushes along a ball of dung, which symbolizes the sun. The Great Scarab pushes the sun along. Thus, in the great machine, the scarabs are moving the stars in their courses. Nutria ---