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at the third period the earth ; next in order were produced the 
trees and vegetables ; in the fifth place were formed the birds 
and fishes and wild inhabitants of the woods ; and in the last 
place he created man. This being was called “ the Man and 
Man-Bull and was not produced by the union of male and 
female. The man part was called Kaiomorts, and the man-bull 
part Ahoudad. Kaiomorts was pure and thinking ; Ahoudad 
mortal and material. Ahoudad was the author of all genera- 
tions. After the creation, for some time there was a season of 
great happiness. The man resided in a peculiar place of high 
elevation, where the Creator placed him. At length, Ahriman, 
an evil spirit, corrupted the world. He rose from the regions 
of utter darkness, and ascended to the realms of pure light — 
i.e. the sun, whence he leapt upon the earth in the form of a 
serpent, and introduced a set of wicked beings called Karf esters. 
He bit Ahoudad , who was immediately affected by his poison, 
fell sick, and died at the age of thirty years. Before Ahoudad 
appeai’ed, Ormisda had prepared a salutary fountain called 
Binak, which communicated its virtues to all who drank of it. 
Upon Kaiomorts appearing, Ormisda created a water called 
Khai, and brought it to him ; from the effects of this water 
Kaiomorts had the body of a young man of fifteen years old, 
shining with light. Ahriman, in addition to that which he con- 
trived against man, formed the design of destroying the whole 
universe. The heavenly angels fought with Ahriman and his 
angels for ninety days and ninety nights. They overcame them, 
and cast them into hell. From the midst of hell Ahriman went 
upon earth, and put everything in the world into confusion. 
And this enemy of all good insinuates himself everywhere, and 
is found everywhere, seeking what mischief he can do above or 
below. 
11. The above analysis of the cosmological notions enter- 
tained by the ancient Persians is taken from a work entitled 
Hebrew Characters Derived from Hieroglyphics, by Dr. John 
Lamb, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; and it 
contains sufficient internal evidence that the founders of this 
system must have had either some knowledge of the Mosaic 
writings, or else some national traditions current amongst their 
race from the time of the dispersion to the same effect. 
12. A few extracts from the Chaldsean Oracles of Zoroaster, 
as given in Cory’s Ancient Fragments, will enable us to judge 
of the ideas which prevailed in the region of the Euphrates 
about the time of the return of the Jews from the Babylonish 
captivity, concerning God, mind, matter, and monad, &c. 
13. God is He that has the head of a hawk, lie is the first, 
indestructible, eternal, unbcgotten, indivisible, dissimilar; the 
dispenser of all good; incorruptible ; the best of the good, the 
