Not built to navigate earthly waters, the sun boat, or solar barque, was carefully constructed to carry the soul of the pharaoh and the justified through to the heavens. It was the vessel gliding between two worlds, able to pass through the liminal space dividing, yet connecting, two modes of existence. The barque took the human soul into the realm of the gods through the same divide the gods themselves use to travel back and forth from the world of the living. This oneness between two realms, divided, yet connected through a liminal space, is not dissimilar from what Ibn Arabi would later describe as the barzakh.

The barzakh, or the divide, is a mental construct, an intangible entity that is understood but not witnessed, known but not realized. It is a presence between two platforms that resides intellectually, not physically, pertaining to its unique nature.

The barzakh is susceptible to all manner of paradoxical traits, assembling contradictory pairs. Given that Ibn Arabi believed in a primary duality between the deity and the universe; the only median capable of receiving both sides within itself is the illusion of the barzakh. The connection between them is not that of separation, but rather one that represents two sides to one truth/reality; what connects them is the connected part of the disconnected whole.