During the Vendel period the elite started to bury their men and women in the boat graves. The boat graves have been interpreted differently depending on if the graves were made for men or women. But the grave goods have one thing in common. The grave goods, consisted of weapons, jewelry, riding equipment, gaming pieces and hand craft tools, proves that the buried persons belonged to an upper-class with a connection to the religion, the gods and the fertility cult.

<p>Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka Asherahs roll i den forntida israelitiska religionen i förhållande till Jahve.</p>

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka Asherahs roll i den forntida israelitiska religionen i förhållande till Jahve.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to research the different theories that exist behind the creation of the rock art in Sweden, new to old paper and research of the rock art from different countries is used. This is to try to criticize the existing theories but also to rectify them, at the same time a secular theory will be created in the light of the read research. This is to test different theories and try to make a new school of rock art theories, a secular one.Geographical data over the rock art in Sweden have been used and analyzed, the rock art have been had its distance to its closest neighbor (non-rock art) calculated. This data has been made for every county, the results of number and distances of the different ancient remains have been put into bar charts and histograms. The field of rock art is old and complicated, to tribute one religion to the rock art is nearly impossible, a problem will nearly always make it self-apparent for every theory. Some theories like shamanism and hunting magic seem to have a solid argument but problem arises. For others like the southern cult theories the religion probably existed but the connection to the rock art is not as strong. A connection between rock art and non-rock art is hard to make out, some connections are showing and a difference depending on the latitude. Problems exist, the analysis needs a lot more work before any accurate assumptions can be made with its data.