When the Tartars swallow, the sacred relics, which they are accustomed to do, they imitate the laws of the universe, the parts of which are incessantly absorbed and pass into the substance of each other.

It is upon the model of the serpent who devours his tail, and this serpent is Budd and the world.
After these, a crowd of other banners, which no man could number, came forward into sight; and the genius exclaimed: I should never finish the detail of all the systems of faith which divide these nations.

Here the hordes of Tartars adore, in the forms of beasts, birds, and insects, the good and evil Genii; who, under a principal, but indolent god, govern the universe.

In their idolatry they call to mind the ancient paganism of the West.

You observe the fantastical dress of the Chamans; who, under a robe of leather, hung round with bells and rattles, idols of iron, claws of birds, skins of snakes and heads of owls, invoke, with frantic cries and factitious convulsions, the dead to deceive the living.