{"id":2403,"date":"2018-08-17T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/85-animals-in-paradise\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:10","slug":"85-animals-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/85-animals-in-paradise\/","title":{"raw":"85. <i>Animals in Paradise<\/i>.","rendered":"85. <i>Animals in Paradise<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/176\" target=\"new\">158<\/a><\/span> <p>The animals in Paradise are the prophet Saleh's camel, the ram which <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/177\" target=\"new\">159<\/a><\/span>Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac, Moses's cow, (the red cow, whose ashes were mingled with the water of purification), Soloman's ant (who, when all creatures, in token of their obedience to him, brought him presents, dragged before him a locust, and was therefore preferred before all others because it had brought a creature so much bigger than itself); the queen of Sheba's parrot, who carried messages between her and Solomon; Ezra's ass; Jonah's whale; Kitmer, the dog of the Seven Sleepers; and Mahommed's camel. <i>Thevenot<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Most probably this suggested to Voltaire the dramatis person\u00e6 of his <i>Taureau Blanc<\/i>.<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/176\" target=\"new\">158<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The animals in Paradise are the prophet Saleh&#8217;s camel, the ram which <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/177\" target=\"new\">159<\/a><\/span>Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac, Moses&#8217;s cow, (the red cow, whose ashes were mingled with the water of purification), Soloman&#8217;s ant (who, when all creatures, in token of their obedience to him, brought him presents, dragged before him a locust, and was therefore preferred before all others because it had brought a creature so much bigger than itself); the queen of Sheba&#8217;s parrot, who carried messages between her and Solomon; Ezra&#8217;s ass; Jonah&#8217;s whale; Kitmer, the dog of the Seven Sleepers; and Mahommed&#8217;s camel. <i>Thevenot<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Most probably this suggested to Voltaire the dramatis person\u00e6 of his <i>Taureau Blanc<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":85,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2403","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2403\/revisions\/2404"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2403\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}