Jibrail then exacted an oath from the Peacock that he would return him his shape at the expiration of a certain time without dishonour or fraud, and the exchange was effected, and Jibrail retired himself into the shape of the Peacock, and the Peacock lifted himself into the illustrious similitude of Jibrail and came to our Lady Eve and said: “Who is God?” The Lady Eve answered him: “His name is Adam.” The Peacock said: “How is he God?” The Lady Eve answered: “For that he knows both Good and Evil.” The Peacock asked: “By what means attained he to that knowledge?” The Lady Eve answered: “Of a truth it was I who brought it to him between my hands from off a Tree in the Garden.” The Peacock said: “The greater then thy modesty and thy meekness, O my Lady Eve,” and he removed himself from her presence, and came again to Jibrail a little before the time of the evening prayer. He said to that excellent and trusty one: “Continue, I pray, to serve in my shape at the time of the Worship at the Altar.” So Jibrail consented and preened himself and spread his tail and pecked between his claws, after the manner of created Peacocks, before the Altar until the entrance of our pure Forefather and his august consort. Then he perceived by observation that when Adam kneeled at the Mirror to adore himself the Lady Eve abode unwillingly, and in time she asked: “Have I then no part in this worship?” Adam answered: “A great and a redoubtable part hast thou, O my Lady, which is to praise and worship me constantly.” The Lady Eve said: “But I weary of this worship. Except thou build me an Altar and make a Mirror to me also I will in no wise be present at this worship, nor in thy bed.” And she withdrew her presence. Adam then said to Jibrail whom he esteemed to be the Peacock: “What shall we do? If I build not an Altar, the Woman who walks by my side will be a reproach to me by day and a penance by night, and peace will depart from the earth.” Jibrail answered, in the voice of the Peacock: “For the sake of Peace on earth build her also an Altar.” So they built an Altar with a Mirror in all respects conformable to the Altar which Adam had made, and Adam made proclamation from the ends of the earth to the ends of the earth that there were now two Gods upon earth--the one Man, and the other Woman.