The question is strictly academic, now that we have Our Blessed Lady—alternately referred to as “The New Ark of the Covenant” (namesake of Newark, NJ and Newark, De, the two city names being pronounced differently by the way!) and “The Ark of the New Covenant”.
Actually, there was a spoonerist mixup in the text, it was really the Cove of the Arkenants, and refers to Jason’s search for the Golden Fleece.