Dead placed on boat — Mythoi

Motif

Dead placed on boat.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

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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