Ra's on da boat

A “solar barge” (also “solar bark”, “solar barque”, “solar boat”, “sun boat”) is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a boat.

The many early Egyptian goddesses who are related as sun deities and the later gods Ra and Horus are depicted as riding in a solar barge. In Egyptian myths of the afterlife, Ra rides in an underground channel from west to east every night so that he can rise in the east the next morning.

The “Khufu ship”, a 43.6-meter-long vessel that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC, is a full-size surviving example which may have fulfilled the symbolic function of a solar barque