B837 <=> B839 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 838]

“Tell me, please, my dear Grandfather, what is a mammoth?” asked Hassein.

“A mammoth,” replied Beelzebub, “is a two-brained being; in the beginning it also bred on your planet and had, in comparison with other beings there of all brain systems, a large exterior form.

“This kind of being also became a victim of the consequences of that large piece broken off form the planet Earth and now called Moon, which is now an independent, as I expressed it, ‘planetary upstart’ of this solar system Ors, and the chief bearer of evil to this ill-fated planet of yours.

“The point is that when the atmosphere of this small planetary upstart began to be formed and became gradually harmonized, great winds arose in the atmosphere of the planet Earth, owing to which several regions of its surface – you remember, I have already spoken about this to you – were buried with sand; moreover, at this time snow constantly fell in what are called the ‘north’ and ‘south’ polar regions of its atmosphere, and all the depressions of the surface of these north and south polar terra firma regions were covered by these falls of snow.

“The beings of this exterior form used to breed on the mentioned regions of the terra firma surface of your planet, and during these unprecedented, as is said there, ‘snow storms,’ they were all also buried by snow, and since then this species of beings has never again been re-established there.

“It is interesting to notice that at the present time there, in these depressions formerly covered with snow, and which were later covered with ‘Kashiman,’ that is with those substances which in general form on the surface of terra firma regions what is called ‘soil,’ there are sometimes still found now even well-preserved planetary bodies of these mammoths.