Worshipping figures, or not? Day writes: “I can get no further than drowning sailors for the other two”.
Perhaps I should have left the three arches together. “The symbol of a bridge with three arches is by no means rare” writes Day. He gives a few examples of arches with symbols, but no example of an arch with men on it.
Also: “Bro. Songhurst, in reply to my enquiry, considered that the Kirkwall illustration might perhaps refer to the degree of Red Cross of Babylon. I had suggested that the two figures on the centre arch were performing an act of reconciliation between the old covenant, represented by the Ten Commandments and the Brazen Serpent on the right, with the new covenant, represented by the Lamb and the Book of the Gospels on the left. Bro. Songhurst questioned my idea of ” reconciliation,” and suggested that the figures might be lifting up their hands in hostility. I had based my reconciliation interpretation more on the fact that the figures appear to be kneeling.”