The Wedding at Cana elevated walkway, a man watches the banquet, and a serving maid awaits for the carver to carve an animal to portions. To the right, a porter arrives with more meat for the feasting diners to eat. The alignment of the Jesus figure under the carver's blade and block, and the butchered animals, prefigure his sacrifice as the "Lamb of God". bottom-right-quarter — a barefoot wine-servant pours the new, red wine into a serving ewer, from a large, ornate oenochoe, which earlier had been filled with water. Behind the wine servant stands the poet Pietro Aretino, intently considering the red wine
Thomas of Cana followers. Written accounts of Thomas of Cana date to the India's Portuguese period. Different versions give different dates for the events; some place them in 345; others as late as the 9th century. The meaning of the "Cana" epithet is unclear; it may refer to the town of Cana or the land of Canaan in the Bible, or it may be a corruption of a Syriac term for merchant ("Knāyil" in Malayam). However, scholar Richard M. Swiderski states that none of these etymologies are entirely sound. Knanaya priest and scholar Jacob Kollaparambil argues that the "Cana" form is a corruption