AMU - The Riddle of the Sphinx!
The Sphinx is said to have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, and to have asked a riddle of travellers to allow them passage. The exact riddle asked by the Sphinx was not specified by early tellers of the stories, and was not standardized as the one given below until late in Greek history.
It was said in late lore that Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (the Greeks always remembered the foreign origin of the Sphinx) to Thebes in Greece where she asks all passersby the most famous riddle in history: "Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?" She strangled and devoured anyone unable to answer. By some accounts (but much more rarely), there was a second riddle: "There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. Who are the two sisters?" This riddle is also found in a Gascon version of the myth and could be very ancient.
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This object is very well done, the textures are great. The only issue I have with it is that there is no back to it, so unless you have it placed against something else it looks incomplete. I am using it to hide a hidden underground entrance and had to use 2 of them back to back to hide the open rear of the Sphinx.