CCCVIII entry...the riddle of the Sphinx...
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:14 am
Here is my entry to the fairy tale category...
Long ago, on a mountain top near the city of Thebes a man named Oedipus encountered a creature called the Sphinx…
The creature was beautiful and terrible, with the face of a woman, body of a lion, dragon wings and a stinging tail…This creature killed everyone who could not answer this riddle: What has but one voice and becomes four footed, two footed, and three footed?
The Sphinx asked Oedipus the riddle, which none had ever solved.
Oedipus answered: Man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two legs, and finally needs a cane in old age…
Her riddle solved, the enraged Sphinx killed herself by leaping from the mountain…
Having conquered the Sphinx, Oedipus was made king of Thebes…
The folder, when public...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=454317
thank you, and please tell me what you think...
Long ago, on a mountain top near the city of Thebes a man named Oedipus encountered a creature called the Sphinx…
The creature was beautiful and terrible, with the face of a woman, body of a lion, dragon wings and a stinging tail…This creature killed everyone who could not answer this riddle: What has but one voice and becomes four footed, two footed, and three footed?
The Sphinx asked Oedipus the riddle, which none had ever solved.
Oedipus answered: Man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two legs, and finally needs a cane in old age…
Her riddle solved, the enraged Sphinx killed herself by leaping from the mountain…
Having conquered the Sphinx, Oedipus was made king of Thebes…
The folder, when public...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=454317
thank you, and please tell me what you think...