Death ship
The vehicle that brings the soul of the deceased to the afterlife is called a death ship . This notion runs through many of the world's mythologies .
Examples
In Norse mythology , for example, the term Naglfar refers to a death ship. In Greek mythology , Charon brings the dead for an obolus (coin) over the River of the Dead ( Acheron , Styx , Lethe , Kokytos , Phlegethon or Eridanus ) to the realm of Hades . Faith is quite often visible in the form of the funeral, which in such cases likes to entrust the corpses to the water in ships or boat-shaped coffins or to lay them out on land in the same way. Among today's primitive peoples , the idea of the death ship is still alive with the Malaio Polynesians from Madagascar in the west to the Markesas in the east, with the Melanesians and Micronesians , on the Nicobar Islands and in back India .
See also
- Ship grave
- Heiligkreuzkapelle (Müstair) (fresco of a death ship in the lower church)