THE MYTHICAL SHIP
THE MYTHICAL ORIGIN OF
THE SHIP.
When you are dealing with ancient stories,
symbols, and ritual structures, you have to
interpret the story telling and the archaeological findings mythological. Otherwise you will be
left guessing and your interpretations will be short of common and explainable
sense. But even so, you also have to connect the symbols and the story telling
to some modern plausible scientific and recognizable facts.
Looking at the many Rock Art
carvings of the so called "Ship" you will observe that the specific carvings of
the shape of the Ships has been very differently carved. Now, if you were to
carve a shape into a hard rock surface with just stone tools, you soon have to
consider how much effort you will use. The results afterwards depends on how
precise you observe the desired object and how precise you carve it.
Different efforts
and different observed object details of the artist, gives different carving
specifics. From just an effort to carve the Ship as a single line, to carving a
Ship with double lines and the so called frame ribs, towards an effort where the
artist have carved the whole surface of the Ship.
Regarding Ships
with frame ribs, scholars often relate these Rock Art Ships directly to a much
later Viking Ship and even to the modern ship. Without any thoughts of the time
period in which these symbols was made. That is of course to putting the cart
before the horse. The idea comes naturally before the material shape!
SUN SHIP AND
MILKY WAY SHIP.
There is 2 basic
origin to the Mythical Ships. One origins from the Sun Calendar Ship and the other origins from the shape of Milky Way Contours
as seen below.
The entire shape of the unfolded
Milky Way Contours.
The unfolded Milky
Way Contours from a Star Atlas.
The drawn lines shows the simple shape
which is the most common figure of the total Milky Way Contours. The drawn red
swirl on the right side represents the Milky Way Centre in the star constellation of Sagittarius.
A 4,51 meter long so called "ship" carving
from Torsbo, Bohuslen County in Sweden.
Traditional, the Mythical
Ship is related by scholars to "the Sun Ship" where a Horse is dragging
the Sun over the heavenly vault. That's a symbolic nonsense. In daytime you
can't se anything dragging the Sun over the Sky. But in a favourable night on
the darkest season of the Year, you can se the Milky Way figure.
And if you observe
the revolving Milky Way contours long enough, you will discover the point where
the Stars seems to stand still. In ancient times, our ancestors marked this
point with a Wheel as inserted above on the Star Atlas.
(See North
Pole Centre)
Different carving
efforts showing the same object. 2 Rock Carvings
showing Horses and Ships. Both pictures symbolizes the entire unfolded contours
of the Milky Way.
Common
observations and ideas from
Egypt and Sweden. The fact that the pictures are dealing with something that
have to do with the Sky, is clear in the Egypt picture Stars.
The black spots above the male
figure represents Stars as also on the Egypt picture next.
CHURCH-SHIP
AND WORSHIP.
Mythically and historically in Denmark we have had a tradition concerning in which side the
woman and men should be placed when visiting the Church. Historically we also have
the tradition of mention the interior of the Church as a "Ship".
It
is my believe that the tradition have its origin in old mythological rituals to
follow the heavenly ideas of the Great God and Goddess. Above you can see the
idea from the star map Milky Way contours of the Heavenly Couple over the schematic
ship-like drawing, to the picture of a stone row ship and to the drawn collage
on picture 3 with the whole idea concept connected.
When
sitting in the church, the male side to the North in the Church, was mentioned at the "Sword" side
and the female side to the South was mentioned the "Spinning" side.
Now, most
churches are aligned in the east/west direction with the so called side ships
or the rows of benches to the north and south.
Looking
at the Contours above at picture 1 and 2 it is easy to see why the northern side
was mentioned the sword
side. But what could then be the reason to call the female and southern Milky
Way the "Spinning" side? Well, as mentioned in
"The Milky Way
Spiral Centre" the most specific feature of the southern Milky Way contours
are, that it's here, in the direction of the star constellation of Sagittarius,
you can find the centre in our Galaxy and the spiral arms with the whole Galaxy
spinning around itself once every approximately 210 millions of years. That
spinning fact could very well be the origin to the myth and tradition.
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