Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . Egyptian Solar Bark, XXII Dynasty{British Museum) Sun-god, Ra, is sometimes represented by a disk, some-times by other emblems, hovering above the vessel orcontained within it. Any one who will look over thepainted or sculptured sarcophagi in the British Museumwill find a host of examples. Sometimes he will findrepresentations of the life-giving rays of Ra pouring downupon the boat and its occupants. Now, in one of theSwedish rock-carvings of ships at Backa, Bohuslan, givenby Montelius, a ship crowded with figures is shownbeneath a disk with three descendi
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . Egyptian Solar Bark, XXII Dynasty{British Museum) Sun-god, Ra, is sometimes represented by a disk, some-times by other emblems, hovering above the vessel orcontained within it. Any one who will look over thepainted or sculptured sarcophagi in the British Museumwill find a host of examples. Sometimes he will findrepresentations of the life-giving rays of Ra pouring downupon the boat and its occupants. Now, in one of theSwedish rock-carvings of ships at Backa, Bohuslan, givenby Montelius, a ship crowded with figures is shownbeneath a disk with three descending rays, and againanother ship with a two-rayed sun above it. It maybe added that in the tumulus of Dowth, which is closeto that of New Grange and is entirely of the same cha-racter and period, rayed figures and quartered circles,obviously solar emblems, occur abundantly, as also atLoughcrew and other places in Ireland, and one othership figure has been identified at Dowth74. THE SHIP SYMBOL IN EGYPTIn Egypt the solar boat is sometimes represented ascontaining the solar emblem alone, sometimes it containsthe figure of a god with attendant deities, sometimes itcontains a crowd of pas-sengers representing humansouls, and sometimes thefigure of a single corpse on rssammammsza bier. The megalithic carv- Egyptian Solar Bark, with go(iinffS also sometimes show Khnemu and attendant deities, ° , 11 T (Brtttsh Museum) the solar emblem ana some- ^ times not; the boats are sometimes filled with figuresand are sometimes empty. When a symbol has oncebeen accepted and understood, any conventional orsummary representation of it is sufficient. I take it that the complete form ofthe megalithic symbol isthat of a boat with figuresin it and with the solaremblem overhead. Thesefigures, assuming the fore-going interpretation ofthe design to be correct,must clearly be takenfor representations of
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