These figures from the late Bronze Age excavated at Roos Carr in Yorkshire are carved from Yew wood and seem to represent a journey over water to the Otherworld or Afterworld
"A widespread symbol in burial traditions - from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to the Viking ship burials - is the boat. In this world, it carries its passengers over water, and it can also be conceived as ferrying the soul of the deceased across the mythical river that separates the afterworld from this one."
Fred Hageneder YEW - A History
"A widespread symbol in burial traditions - from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to the Viking ship burials - is the boat. In this world, it carries its passengers over water, and it can also be conceived as ferrying the soul of the deceased across the mythical river that separates the afterworld from this one."
Fred Hageneder YEW - A History
