Adam & Eve

The beautiful deeply cut stone at Logierait Kirk reminded me that the eighteenth century masons had to reconcile Adam and Eve’s Biblical nakedness with Presbyterian sensibilities: various strategies were employed, including giving Eve extremely long hair. In this case they have been discreetly cut off and made almost completely androgynous.

A rarer Abraham and Issac stone in the extras, showing its age a bit more,.

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