The ark of the covenant was itself a cultural fusion of Egyptian New Kingdom solar barques, used to carry idols, with the practices of the aniconic Midianite Yahwists of the Sinai region. The proto-Levites brought this fusion with them into Canaan, where it melded further with the endogenous Canaanite worship of El.
It's a cool bit of history, but connecting it to diffusion models feels like a bit of a stretch!
I read it more like a complex joke, or rather, a stab at the problem of why generative material of that caliber feels so fundamentally wrong to some of us.