Sentence examples for sacred boat from inspiring English sources
Off the hall a smaller one with six columns is surrounded by six magazines, and it, in turn, leads into two vestibules, the second of which opens into the sanctuary where the sacred boat was kept containing the image of the goddess.
It possesses ancient sacred art, Poveiro boats and archaeological finds such as Roman inscriptions and Castro culture pottery.
Yet another point of commonality, and difference, for the monotheistic faiths is the story of Noah, sacred history's first boat-builder.
In the scuffle that followed, the English seized an idol sacred to the Kecoughtans, who filled his boat with wild game and bread to ransom it.
The next day I joined Japanese and Chinese tourists on a boat trip around tiny Lalu island, sacred to the Thao tribe, the smallest ethnic group in Taiwan.
We're in an open boat in the middle of the sacred river Namada, along whose banks hundreds of worshippers are sending single flames bobbing out into the night.
And locals say the Maya considered a freshwater lagoon, Yalahau, about a 20-minute boat ride from the island, to be a sacred fountain of youth.
As the sun rises over the opposite bank, whatever your faith, or even if you have none, you can cast a tiny banana leaf boat with a lighted candle on to the sacred stream representing your prayers or your meditation.
The ruins of a huge enclosure of thick mud-brick walls, standing near the row of boat graves, has been associated with the performance of sacred rituals for this particular pharaoh after his burial at Abydos.
A dusk boat ride is accompanied by near naked sadhus splashing in the sacred, filthy water.
