Feast of a small red elephant

Mankind has been looking for the meaning of life since the time of Ovid, Plato, Heracleida, and is afraid of its transience, and hopes for endless reincarnations, transitions of souls from one body to another - from man to man, or from man to animal, and back, believing in this way for eternity. These beautiful delusions are somehow present in different world religions. The author, agreeing with these theses, says - even to elephants nothing human is alien.