The boat of the sun ... the journey of "Ra" between sunrise and sunset.
In 1954, I found two roofed pits at the base of the southern pyramid of Khufu. After research and excavation, they discovered on the bottom of one of them on a disjointed vessel elaborately carved out of cedar wood and connected to each other with ropes and not missing any part of it. As the "sun boat."
The first sun boat, after its installation, was about 42 meters long and was called the sun boat, as it was called the Khufu ship
Solar boats were used as funerary ships in ancient Egypt to go to restore life from the holy places. The myth of Ra tells the "sun disk" that he is a child at sunrise, then a full man at noon, then an old man in the evening, and he rides two boats according to the doctrine of the ancient Egyptians, which are Ra’s boats that cross the day where he rises in The sky then disappears from sight at sunset and begins its journey into the other world (the Dot) during the night.
The researcher explains in Egyptology d. Ahmed Saleh said that the boats of the sun had a special sacred symbolism in the ancient Egyptian creed, as they were used to restore life from the holy places. Therefore, they were called the ships of the spirit of the gods. The sun rises on the far eastern shore where a band of monkeys revives it as soon as the sun appears on the eastern horizon. If these animals wake up, they start dancing to sing the sun and the monkeys are also sacred to the ancient Egyptians.
Ra then rides his day ship that sails across the sky until evening, adding that the journey then travels from his day ship to the night in which he travels in the underworld before sunrise again.
Saleh points out that myths and stories were woven around the journey of the sun and the boats of the sun or the ship of the sun as in the doctrine of the ancient Egyptians where the Egyptian kings were named Ibn Ra from the era of Khafre in the era of the pyramids builders, explaining that this solar kinship in the royal titles until the end of Egyptian history
Saleh continued: The god Ra was the head of the Holy Ninth, and this does not mean that he includes nine deities. There are several forms of him. In some of them, the number of individuals is seven deities and in other forms exceeds the ten and he headed the official group of deities in the fifth family.
