Boats played a major role in religion because they were conceived as the main means by which the gods traveled across the sky and through the netherworld.
[http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/egypt/giza/boat/boat.html] Лодки играли важную роль в религии египтян, так как они являлись основным средством передвижения богов как по небу так и по преисподни.