Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . MYTHS OF THE CELTIC RACE very common occurrence in the sepulchral art of is connected with the worship of Ra, which came in fully4000 years Its meaning as an Egyptian symbol iswell known. The ship was called the Boat of the was the vessel in which the Sun-god performed hisjourneys ; in particular, the journey which he madenightly to the shores of the Other-world, bearing withhim in his bark the souls of the beatified dead. The. Egyptian Solar Bark, XXII Dynasty{British Museum) Sun-god, Ra, is sometimes represented by a disk, some-times
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . MYTHS OF THE CELTIC RACE very common occurrence in the sepulchral art of is connected with the worship of Ra, which came in fully4000 years Its meaning as an Egyptian symbol iswell known. The ship was called the Boat of the was the vessel in which the Sun-god performed hisjourneys ; in particular, the journey which he madenightly to the shores of the Other-world, bearing withhim in his bark the souls of the beatified dead. The. 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
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