and Feristeh (Seraphs and Angels) against the Divs who are the children of Time led by the arch demon-Eshem.  Thus when Hormuzd created the planets, the dog, and all useful animals and plants, Ahriman produced the comets, the wolf, noxious beasts and poisonous growths.  The Hindus represent the same metaphysical idea by Bramha the Creator and Visva- karma, the Anti-creator,[FN#251] miscalled by Europeans Vulcan:  the former fashions a horse and a bull and the latter caricatures them with an ass and a buffalo,—­evolution turned topsy turvy.  After seeing nine angels and obtaining an explanation of the Seven Stages of Earth which is supported by the Gav-i-Zamin, the energy, symbolised by a bull, implanted by the Creator in the mundane sphere, Bulukiya meets the four Archangels, to wit Gabriel who is the Persian Rawanbakhsh or Life-giver; Michael or Beshter, Raphael or Israfil alias Ardibihisht, and Azazel or Azrail who is Duma or Mordad, the Death-giver; and the four are about to attack the Dragon, that is, the demons hostile to mankind who were driven behind Alborz-Kaf by Tahmuras the ancient Persian king.  Bulukiya then recites an episode within an episode, the “Story of Janshah,” itself a Persian name and accompanied by two others (vol. v. 329), the mise-en-scene being Kabul and the King of Khorasan appearing in the proem.  Janshah, the young Prince, no sooner comes to man’s estate than he loses himself out hunting and falls in with cannibals whose bodies divide longitudinally, each moiety going its own way:  these are the Shikk (split ones) which the Arabs borrowed from the Persian Nim- chihrah or Half-faces.  They escape to the Ape-island whose denizens are human in intelligence and speak articulately, as the universal East believes they can:  these Simiads are at chronic war with the Ants, alluding to some obscure myth which gave rise to the gold-diggers of Herodotus and other classics, “emmets in size somewhat less than dogs but bigger than foxes."[FN#252] The episode then falls into the banalities of Oriental folk-lore.  Janshah, passing the Sabbation river and reaching the Jews’ city, is persuaded to be sewn up in a skin and is carried in the normal way to the top of the Mountain of Gems where he makes acquaintance with Shaykh Nasr, Lord of the Birds:  he enters the usual forbidden room; falls in love with the pattern Swan-maiden; wins her by the popular process; loses her and recovers her through the Monk Yaghmus, whose name, like that of King Teghmus, is a burlesque of the Greek; and, finally, when she is killed by a shark, determines to mourn her loss till the end of his days.  Having heard this story Bulukiya quits him; and, resolving to regain his natal land, falls in with Khizr; and the Green Prophet, who was Wazir to Kay Kobad (vith century B. C.) and was connected with Macedonian Alexander (!) enables him to win his wish.  The rest of the tale calls for no comment.