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more Beautiful than the face of your God
Wicked as the forked tongue of a daemon?
Dead men eat it all the time
Live men who eat it die slowly....
nothing
My second is performed by my first
And it is thought
That a thief by the marks of my whole
might be caught.
Footprints
What force and strength cannot get through,
I with a gentle touch can do.
and many in these twisted halls would stand
were I not, as a friend, at hand...
Key
There is a thing which nothing is,
Yet it has a name,
It's sometimes tall'
and sometimes short,
It tumbles when we fall.
It plays our games
shadow
From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place
Who am I?
The letter "e"
I am twice as old as three times the age of
the Sphinx of Gazia, Agamamnus,
divided by one-ninth the age of the Sphinx of
Canus, Igon, who left this world twenty six years ago.
What is my age?
The reference to "twenty-six years ago" is apparently supposed to make you
think of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Thus (obviously :-) Agamamnus'
age would be 1 (a=1) + 7 (g=7) +1+13+1+13+14+21+19=90 and Igon's age would
be 9+7+15+14=45. Then putting these numbers into the riddle, the age is
2*(3*(Agamamnus)) 6*(90)
(1/9)*(Igon) (1/9)*45
----------------- = ----------
108!
Two bodies have I
Though both joined in one.
The more still I stand,
The quicker I run...
Hourglass
In a marble hall white as milk
Lined with skink soft as silk
Within a fountain crystal clear
A golden apple doth appear
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in to steal its gold.
Egg