Dead placed on boat

Motif

Dead placed on boat.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V61.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 5, Section CXXXIV
Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 87
Ancient EgyptianThe Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chapter CLXVIII
IrishGods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, Ch. 30CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS
Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 71

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Icelandic*Boberg. Cf. Beowulf.
general Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 79c, 545b
general Fb "skib" III 243b

Within the index

Filed under Various ways of disposing of dead.

Filed beside it

Dead burned on pyre. (Cremation.)Coffin buried upright Head buried one place, body another King buried in his war car Christian buried in stone coffin Christian buried in wooden coffin Burial in grave-mound Lion buried in stone cave with gold letters Corpses exposed in tree Aversion to burial in "strange city"

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