Angels and Women (1924)

168 ANGELS AND WOMEN
royal sire. They were mounted upon horses,
whose black, glossy bodies were thickly dappled
with spots, and whose fierce, rolling eyes
and airy thread seemed to scorn the earth.
Following the children of Satanas came a
thousand white elephants, bearing magnificent
presents to the mighty monarch.
Next in rank were the sons of Owadu, in
armor of burnished green, seated in superb
chariots drawn by harnessed lions, whose
savage nature tamely yielded to the superhuman
strength and fear-inspiring voices of
the terrible beings who held the reins. After
them, the sons of Zaradis, Saranzis, Ramudas,
and other celestial princes, all mighty
men, men of renown, arrayed in the costumes
of their fathers’ kingdoms, presenting munificent
offerings to the King of earthly
princes.
Snatches of conversation were wafted to
my ears from various men and women in the
vast assemblage, comments upon the debaucheries
of the Devas, and the Darvands,