Egyptian funerary religion
Solar Bark
The deceased may embark with Ra and traverse the sky. Chapter 100 is described as strengthening the glorified person for admission to the god’s company. The boat’s components have special names with mystical meanings, and knowledge of those names matters to the voyager’s welfare. A written version could be placed on the deceased at burial.
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In the sources
Principal account
TraditionalThe deceased may embark with Ra and traverse the sky. Chapter 100 is described as strengthening the glorified person for admission to the god’s company.
Further detail
TraditionalThe boat’s components have special names with mystical meanings, and knowledge of those names matters to the voyager’s welfare. A written version could be placed on the deceased at burial.
Context & interpretation
Tirard’s 1910 account interprets selected funerary texts and rituals through the scholarship of her period. Local cults and surviving manuscripts vary; her comparisons and proposed origins are not a modern Egyptological consensus.
Original passages
Source 1
The Book of the Dead
made strong, and is made to embark in the boat of Ra together with those who are with the god." All the parts of the boatOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 85
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0085
- Original scan leaf
- 95
- Recorded leaf number
- 85
- Current Reader position
- 79
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Source 2
The Book of the Dead
All the parts of the boat have their special namesOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 85
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0085
- Original scan leaf
- 95
- Recorded leaf number
- 85
- Current Reader position
- 79
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Continue exploring
Ra
Solar god whose daily passage becomes a path for the deceased.
Shared source pageTransformations of the Egyptian Soul
Funerary freedom to assume animal, plant, and divine forms.
Same subject and traditionUshabti
Small funerary figures that answer the deceased person’s summons to work.