The husbandmen carried through the fields, a sow big with young, or a cow-calf, at the beginning of harvest, with dancing and shouts of joy. […] The numerous army of Bacchus, composed of men and women, passed through Arabia in their journey to India. […] They admitted likewise the doctrine of the transmigration, or passage of souls successively through various bodies. […] By the power, and through the compassion of Oromasdes, from this chaos, arose the sun and the planets. […] Amongst their leading doctrines, were those of the immortality of the soul, and its transmigration through various bodies.