The boat holds us secure above the chaos of life. The boat was a very early Christian symbol. It has been used to represent the Church itself reaching a safe haven with its Christian souls onboard, thus a symbol of safety. Mark A fishing boat might represent the Kingdom of Christ and his followers. The mast of the boat itself often formed a cross and thus represented the cross especially in times of persecution when the cross needed to be disguised.
Ancient carvings can be found of a boat with the sun god Ra. The boat can represent those things that appear on our horizons and come to shore. The boat immediately evokes a passage, carrying you over the watery depths. The boat can symbolise a spiritual journey on the sea of life; one cannot get anywhere by remaining on an island. The boat embodies the voyage of life, of coming full circle and also the last journey, taking us back to the waters of our beginning.
People often choose a boat to be carved on a headstone for the simple reason that their loved one loved the sea or loved sailing. The boat might be a source of great joy and freedom.
Follow this link for further examples of symbols on gravestones. Below are some epitaphs and poems which might be used on a headstone alongside a carving of a boat. Nothing gives me as much Joy as the sailing boat of my Silent Heart. Exploration is in our nature. But a seashell also represents hidden potential or treasure waiting to be found. A clever design choice for shutters on tucked-away seaside homes, or for anyone who loves the ocean and seashell designs.
Seahorses are considered good luck and have a variety of other connotations drawn from their unique traits. They are some of the slowest swimmers in the ocean, content to ride the waves and be in the present—which reminds us to live in the now.
When rocky waters sweep through, they hold tight using their curled tails, representing tenacity and persistence. These cutouts could easily be paired with some seahorse tiebacks to match the look! Anchors are widely known to symbolize stability. A ghost story is at least a story, and a supernatural story is better than no story at all.
Modern humans are used to seeing massive man-made constructions. Visit any city and skyscrapers no longer excite most of us.
But massive ships were once the most enormous man-made constructions people had ever seen. The misconception that massive ships are indestructible came to an end after the tragic sinking of The Titanic. The illustrations below are from Song of the English , a book of jingoistic poetry celebrating British colonialism by Rudyard Kipling.
However, the art by W. Heath Robinson beautifully emphasises the massive size of the ship in a top-down then a bottom-up perspective. Related to this was the idea that ships are feats of human workmanship, proof of our superiority and conquering the world. The sinking of The Titanic brought us down a peg. Ships require a diversely skilled team of people in order to work.
The cutaway illustration below, by Rogier Mekel in the s, emphasises the hive of activity which takes place on board a ship. In the parts left out of the story, it seems Nancy is done with people telling her not to go deep into her own mind. She has spent her entire life caring for others.
Munro may be making full use of the symbolism of the sea, in which the surface is symbolically different from the depths. By dutifully taking a trip on a ferry, this is symbolically the same as avoiding her subconscious, if the ocean depths equal our subconscious. A small boat, a man, a river — this will put you in mind of the River Styx. For more on that see Glossary of the Underworld.
This ship seems to say something about fate — the hulk is a calming anchor in her mind. She imagines herself as the ship, perhaps as a calming strategy, but also as the realisation that her whole life stretches before her, vast as the sea, and despite the ups-and-downs of this particular day, life will go on. The revelation is more subtle, symbolised in the final sentences when Ada imagines herself and her customer as yachts.
And all his leisurely slow ways seemed to be allowing for the movement of the ship. This is a perfect example to make my point: That ships and trains have very similar, overlapping functions in storytelling. The difference is perhaps this: A ship contains an ocean below it, and therefore masks hidden depths. In contrast, readers are not encouraged to ponder the earth below a train unless the train is underground.
Trains keep us imaginatively on level ground. We associate ships with hidden depths and trains with a different type of terror: fatalistic outcomes leading us irrevocably toward death. Often a feature of highly symbolic genres such as science fiction and gothic horror stories, the sapient ship has a mind of its own.
Perhaps more than any other kind of vehicle, we like to think of boats as individuals within a family. This might come from the concept of a tug boat perhaps. The correspondence between the two girls sisters? And the boat itself is like an island.
In the painting below, the navy ships are painted to blend with the city — where does the city end and the navy begin? A fleet of ships in the distance vaguely resembles a city, ONLY at sea. I suspect will mark a change in public perception of cruise ships, not so much as luxury spaces but as hotspots for pandemic level viruses , but it will be interesting to see how long that lasts. The modern luxury cruise liner, perfect for spreading disease, is simply a reversion to the historic riskiness of ships.
Whenever characters are separated by a ship journey, the audience wonders if loved ones will ever reunite. Research has shown that when asked on a date from a high and precarious place, the person asked is more likely to say yes. This psychological phenomenon must have been intuited for a long time, I think. Pretty much anything can serve as a fantasy portal — boats and ships are among the less imaginative, I guess. Chain Symbolism in Tarot. City Symbolism in Tarot.
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