The concept of a chariot per se is not perhaps difficult to appreciate; it involves "riding" by the entities. As a rider travels to different locations by means of a vehicle, so also the neural entities travel to the farthest regions of the lung mounted on the bronchi and the other structures.
This appears to be a very pervasive metaphor found across ancient cultures. The orb of the sun drawn by a horse is among the artifacts associated with bronze age civilization, found in the National Museum of Denmark. Interestingly, the chariot of the sun in these ancient civilizations is found to be drawn not only by a horse, but also by a snake, a fish and a bird! It is at once a chariot and a ship! This points to the substitutability of metaphor.
The chariot drawn by the horse may transform easily into a ship pulled by a fish. "The horse was not the sun’s only helper. The imagery of the period is full of ships. On its journey the sun was also transported by the Sun Ship. Other mythological helpers of the sun were fish, snakes and swimming birds."
The chariot has a relation to the Hekhalot of Jewish mysticism.
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