…relics will be moved, but images and statues survive…The useful camel and the dromedary pace the desert sands.
-The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
None were moving, these holy images of the Epiphany left in Westminster Abbey by order of Thomas Cromwell when stripping England of its Catholic relics. But if they had been moving…what would he have made of KhairAllah riding his White, Mas’ūd his Buckskin, and Adam Hāmid his Blue, like the Magi except that they rode to al-Qāhira from the South and not to Bayt Laham from the East.