These leaves, cut across here, belonged to a rose-bush which grew by the fountain of Eden before the evil of the first rain fell on the world.
"Originally all roses were white, but as the limbs of the first woman shone with more dazzling whiteness they blushed for shame, and since then there are crimson as well as white roses.

So the Persians say." "And this--our piece ?" asked Orion.
"This," replied the merchant, with a pleasant glance at the young man, "was the very middle of the hanging.

On the left you see the judgment at the bridge of Chinvat.

The damned were not represented, but only the winged, Fravashi, Genii who, as the Persians believe, dwell one with each mortal as his guardian angel through life, united to him but separable.

They were depicted in stormy pursuit of the damned--the miscreant followers of Angramainjus, the evil Spirit, of whom you must imagine a vast multitude fleeing before them.