"Now will you be so good as to tell me who and what is the god, or the elephant Jana, whom you have brought me here to kill?
Is the elephant a god, or is the god an elephant?
In either case what has it to do with the Child ?" "Lord, Jana among us Kendah represents the evil in the world, as the Child represents the good.

Jana is he whom the Mohammedans call Shaitan and the Christians call Satan, and our forefathers, the old Egyptians, called Set." "Ah!" thought I to myself, "now we have got it.

Horus the Divine Child, and Set the evil monster, with whom it strives everlastingly." "Always," went on Marut, "there has been war between the Child and Jana, that is, between Good and Evil, and we know that in the end one of them must conquer the other." "The whole world has known that from the beginning," I interrupted.

"But who and what is this Jana ?" "Among the Black Kendah, Lord, Jana is an elephant, or at any rate his symbol is an elephant, a very terrible beast to which sacrifices are made, that kills all who do not worship him if he chances to meet them.
He lives farther on in the forest yonder, and the Black Kendah make use of him in war, for the devil in him obeys their priests." "Indeed, and is this elephant always the same ?" "I cannot tell you, but for many generations it has been the same, for it is known by its size and by the fact that one of its tusks is twisted downwards." "Well," I remarked, "all this proves nothing, since elephants certainly live for at least two hundred years, and perhaps much longer.

Also, after they become 'rogues' they acquire every kind of wicked and unnatural habit, as to which I could tell you lots of stories.