My next guess would be "white" only because of the lines mentioning the gem (which I take to be a diamond) and the flower (which I take to be a lily). Unfortunately, that's the best I've got.
Yeah. I'm lost. My next guess was going to be "gifts you give to a girl..." but that's based entirely on three lines of the riddle, and largely falls apart in view of the rest of it. Got any hints that won't give away too much?
Come on everyone, where are your guesses? Is my riddle THAT hard? ._.
You'd be surprised
Anyway, the only other guess I have at the moment is... a deck of cards. (I'm a bit tired now, so if it turns out to be right, I'll give my explanation then. I hope that's alright, and if you'd prefer I don't do that in the future, just say so.)
Also, I assume that your spelling of "it's" in the second like was unintentional, but I should probably check anyway.
I'll categorize my stuff, to make it more manageable
Things I actually hate:
-injustice
-homicide
-infanticide
-genocide
-suicide
-cannibalism
also...
-child slavery
-child prostitution
-children being sold into prostitution by their parents (yes, that happens)
-those parents doing that to support a drug habit
-child soldier recruitment
-child mutilation (yeah, that happens too)
-general child exploitation
-the fact that there's a global trade for all of this ^
-child physical abuse
-child sexual abuse
-other domestic abuse
-drug abuse
-alcohol abuse
-death due to alcohol abuse
-when that death was not the person who was drunk
-gang violence
-animal cruelty
-rape
-violent rape (if there's a kind that's not violent)
-torture
-using religion to justify any of that ^
Things I less seriously hate:
-ignorance
-prejudice
-arrogance
-self-centeredness
-denial of reason
-hypocrisy
-politics getting in the way of the good of the people
-unjustified criticism
-unnecessary rudeness
-stubbornness
-bad fathering
-parents leading by example... to very negative things
Things I "hate," but don't actually hate:
-when someone says "life's not fair" to justify their own unfair actions
-poorly prepared corndogs
-when people can't spell to save their lives
-when people couldn't use proper grammar to save their lives
-when people swear excessively as if it'll make a point
-when people combine all three of these
-when people combine all three of these, then call you out for a typo
-internet advertising
-car dealership commercials
-political commercials
-furniture store commercials
-infomercials
-commercial airline food
-food that looks fantastic... until you bite it
-bug bites
-horribly disorganized rooms
-real (not American) Chinese food
-sushi
-not being able to identify the song that's stuck in your head
-not being able to identify that person you're talking to, when you're sure you met him before... somewhere...
-the song "Whistle," by Flo Rida
-when the radio cuts off a song before it's actually over
-when a song's lyrics don't actually mean anything...
-bronies (no offense)
-people who attempt to reestablish a belt line below their butts
-doors that have a "pull" style handle in the "push" direction
-the kid in class who asks questions like it's his job to prove the professor wrong
-when CoD players flaunt their expert knowledge of guns and military tactics
-when people hate on Taylor Swift just because they don't want to admit that she's awesome
If you actually read all that (or any of that), you deserve a smiley. Here: :D.
If you didn't read it, no taking the smiley. Don't cheat. Honor system here.
In answer to Vexx's riddle, the only things I can think of at the moment are sunrise (or dawn) and sleep (or maybe dreams). And neither of those even seem to fit the whole riddle, unless I'm missing something...
Is the answer, the Flower of Life? Tree of Life even?
It is a vast pattern, think of as a repetition of the Vesica Piscis in a floral pattern. It begins with nothing, everything's beginning, and within it, lies the image of Venn (Venn Diagram) and the ornament from the door of the Chalice (The Chalice Wells' gate/door) and this pattern basically has many forms, and continues to "grow". It is a friend both to priest and "numberphiles" (Mathematicians) because of it's sacred meaning and geometrical properties.
Should it not be the answer, though I really think it is, here's a link to the thing itself. Within this, will most probably be an answer.
I believe this riddle is cracked wide open. Or close to it at least.
Winner!
...And, for those who are curious, here's the full explanation:
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
The beginning of the Flower of Life, or at least one of its base components, is called the Seed of Life. It is said to symbolize the 7 days of creation in Jewish and Christian theology. Where therein lies Venn's image,
...which contains many Venn Diagrams And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
The door of the Chalice Well displays a symbol which sort of is a Venn diagram, but I hoped that anyone who looked it up would discover the term "Vesica Piscis," leading to the answer. But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The Tripod of Life is a component of the Flower of Life, made by adding one more circle to the two forming the Vesica Piscis. The sign of the grandest author(s),
It has stood as a symbol for the Judeo-Christian Trinity, as well as... Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
The Wiccan (witches') Moon Goddess, and her domain: SEa, Air, and Land (an irrelevant reference to the Navy SEALs by the way) I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
As the flower grows, another symbol can be pulled from it called the "Egg of Life," said to depict the cell cluster that we all were a few hours after conception. And once I reach a second form, The green might call me home, for a time.
Since the cell cluster reference was a bit more obscure in that you probably could not find it as easily by following clues, I tried to include a mini-riddle to give you the term "egg." "Green," here, refers to the inexperienced, new, or young, which once called an egg home. I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
Just add a few more circles to complete the Flower... You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
"Ent is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word for "giant," but in the sense most of us would recognize, popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien and marked by the capitalization of the word, it is a large animated tree. An "insensate Ent," therefore, is just a tree. The Tree of Life, as Alnar mentioned, is another component of the fully formed Flower of Life. Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Persephone's undoing being a pomegranate, the "category" would simply be "fruit." The Fruit of Life is another component of the fully formed Flower, and the reference to Persephone was there to ensure that all you solvers would begin thinking in terms of symbolism, because, as you might have been able to tell, there's a lot of it in this riddle Or call me that from which this unfolds,
This was included for those who know nothing of all this symbolism. The thing from which a fruit unfolds is, of course, a flower. And annex the target of Ankou.
And if you annex (add on) the target of Ankou (Ankou is a personification of death from areas of medieval France and England, so his target would be "life"), you get "Flower Life," which is close enough to the answer that I think you could figure it out from there. But regardless of my perfumes,
Just another reference to flowers to round things out. I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
The Flower of Life has long been an important religious and mathematical symbol, used in cultures worldwide and in Pythagorean geometry respectively, and this line was meant to be most useful as an early guide to narrowing down the category of the answer.
I'd say the witches' goddess is Hecate, but apparently, she isn't, at least not in this riddle.
That Venn Diagram, Chalice Wells symbol is more commonly called a Vesica Piscis. Or bladder of a fish. Which symbolizes a solar eclipse more commonly.
This is definitely a riddle within a riddle D:
Vesica Piscis... that's good. Run with that
Also, I could tell you what I mean by "witches' goddess," but that might be a bit too much... go for one more guess, and if you don't get it then and if you want the hint, I'll give it to ya.
Okay, so the beginning of the answer is the "picture of everything's beginning", and within this picture, lies the "Venn Diagram" and the "ornament from the 'door' of the 'Chalice'" (Now, why is it capitilized? Could it be the [Religious reference head] Lord's cup? [Or looking at the post below me, the door of this Chalice Wells Garden])
Yes . Actually, the Chalice Well itself. If you look up what that ornament is, you might be a bit disappointed at first, but just keep digging...
And when this answer "grows", "within" it rests the "sign of the grandest author(s), or this witches' goddess of "SEAL". (SEAL, all capitilized, perhaps it's an acronym?)
It is. Someone below figured it out.
I'm feeling as if there's a riddle within this riddle D:
If my ideas are anywhere on track, then there is a strong motif of overlapping circles or cells.
Someone saw it . And, because we've sort of been dancing around the the other themes, I will clarify them: the other common threads through the riddle are "nature" and "life and death." These are not the answers in themselves, but were meant to get you thinking along the right lines once you discovered this other very important point which ATG (I hope you don't mind the abbreviation) just mentioned.
Also, in regard to your bolded notes: they were mostly wrong, with the exception of your interpretation of the acronym SEAL (though the goddess is not mother earth, you have her domain right... earlier in the line, I mention that she is the goddess of witches, so try to follow these two clues), and your interpretation of "green" as "new."
But I'm not sure what sort of answer that would point to and there are several lines that I have no idea how to interpret. I did get an interesting image when I googled "door of the chalice". The Chalice Well Gardens entrance in England has a paving stone pattern of two overlapping circles inside of a larger circle. Either that is a very obscure clue or else its just a random coincidence...
Everything's beginning, is this a circle, or even a dot? Dots make lines which makes shapes. Considering the riddle, there happens to be lots of transformation.
No to the dot thing, and you would be more right to say it is an "adding on" rather than a transformation.
A dot is the beginning, when it "grows" it will become a line. And when it grows again, it could possibly become a shape, or more likely something that's almost a shape. When this becomes "full" it is then a shape. Perhaps a circle.
Is the answer a circle?
Shapes maybe?
You're getting somewhere with that, but neither one is the answer.
Alnar, I could solve it, but to do so would just be irritating in the extreme. Brain expects verse to have proper rhyme and structure. Doesn't like it when it's just slapped together ;P
I'll have a look at as much as I can tolerate, though. Crest, structure your verses properly!
Aw, but it's so much more fun this way
The first three lines remind me of another type of riddle where the clues help you spell out the thing, rather than actually describing it. From those lines, with that logic, the first letter could be O or B...
That's not what I was going for.... and also, if anyone wants to be helpful, feel free to make a compilation of all the clues gathered so far (but be sure to spoiler it :P).
Reposting for convenience
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning, Where therein lies Venn's image, And the ornament from the door of the Chalice. But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests, The sign of the grandest author(s), Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL. I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside, And once I reach a second form, The green might call me home, for a time. I'll continue to grow, and when I am full, You could pull from me an insensate Ent, Or the category of Persephone's undoing, Or call me that from which this unfolds, And annex the target of Ankou. But regardless of my perfumes, I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
Well, I'm guessing that "one" aspect of the moon would be it's ever-changing phases. Different all the time, and it's the shadow of the Earth upon the moon. That or the fact that it reflect's the sun's light.
Would the answer be Shadow?
No and no... the relation to the moon may not make sense until you're closer to the answer, so don't focus too much on that for now. By the way, I like the new avatar
Green.. Green.. Greed? Money? it's symbolized as the color of love, lust, it signifies witchcraft, evil, and decay. Even prosperity.
Actually, I think you've literally hit everything but what I meant by it
Well then, a pomegranate is symbolized as:
In Greek Mythology, the fruit of the dead,
In Egypt, it symbolizes prosperity and ambition.
Yes. Though I'm not going for a symbolic meaning here, the ones that the pomegranate carry offered some very nice poetic similarity to themes of the riddle's answer. Don't consider that too much of a hint though... I didn't tell you much that you didn't already know.
Is it me, or is there lot's of "Death" in that riddle? ._.
Yes. Like the pomegranate, the rest of my symbols contain themes that pertain to the riddle's answer. There is one more theme that I tried to include, and finding it might help guide your thinking.
Alright, so "Venn's image" == a Venn diagram.
Persephone's undoing was a pomegranate...
See my pomegranate references above
Well, the rest of it, in order...
The picture of everything's beginning, containing a Venn diagram... Well, to me this sounds as though you're describing a state of infinite possibility, containing all possibilities and the relations between them.
not quite; it's a bit more literal
"The ornament from the door of the chalice"... is this a reference to the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail, perchance?
different Chalice, sorry
"the green"... I dunno if it's just me, but it sounds like a reference to a drug of some sort.
nope. 'Green' is an adjective.
"You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing," So, something which can produce a senseless tree giant, or a fruit... "when I am full".
yep. maybe some rewording on the senseless tree giant thing would help your thought process, but basically, yeah.
Friend of priests and "numberphiles". Number-lovers. Mathematicians?
yes.
Not certain on this... but it seems to describe, in some ways, the Moon.
No, but one feature of the moon does capture perhaps the most important aspect of the answer. That will not make sense until you're closer to solving, though.
Also, it's probably better you don't use rhyme and rhythm. If you did, I'd be able to follow it too well. The breaking of flow actually makes it significantly harder for me
I just find that it's difficult to do all the other things I want to do: the thematic language, the precise references, and in a few cases, the flexible meanings of words, when I also have to worry about rhyming
And... here's a pretty big hint, so proceed with caution.
The last two lines probably provide the most valuable information for narrowing down your potential answers, and the two that precede those could... well, actually, I'll save that one for later if nobody guesses it soon
While I do not know the answer, I can probably provide an explanation (in a literal sense) for some things to make it easier for others.
Venn's image could be the Venn Diagram.
yes.
The witches' goddess is (what I think to be) Hecate. She is the patron goddess of witches.
no, but an excellent thought.
The green, perhaps it means the grass? Nature?
think of it in a much less literal sense; almost as slang even
Insensate means "lacking physical sensation" or "lacking compassion or sympathy; unfeeling" and ent could mean giant.
ent can mean giant, yes, in its original sense. I am referring specifically to Tolkein's ents.
Persephone's undoing can be many things, but I would think it was her eating of the pomegranate seeds which confined her to stay with Hades for a part of the year for the rest of her life.
yep, though, because it may help your thought process, you may want to think of the pomegranate as a whole, and not just its seeds.
Ankou is a personification of death in Breton mythology.
good
Those are what Ithink some parts in the riddle mean. You can pick up from that, search, think, and put it all together. Because this riddle somewhat stumps me ._.
*claps* HCrest got it! Yes the answer was Charon. And you have provided a good enough explanation too.
To explain some two parts, I'll give my short explanation 0n the 1st and 3rd lines.
Charon covers a bit of the planet Pluto in darkness. It is 'beyond the sea' because Pluto is the planet after Neptune, the god of the sea in Roman mythology.
He is one of 'darkness and night' because Charon is the son of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness)
With that said HCrest may now post the next riddle.
-snip-
Alright, cool. I'll try to think up something new and interesting... consider this a placeholder 'till I'm done.
Alright, here it is. And I must warn you, it will require some pretty random knowledge on some infrequently thought-about subjects, or at the very least, some skill with research on the internet . If you've already heard of it, this will be much easier for you. And as usual, if only to annoy Vexx, it will not follow poetic meter .
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
Where therein lies Venn's image,
And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The sign of the grandest author(s),
Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
And once I reach a second form,
The green might call me home, for a time.
I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Or call me that from which this unfolds,
And annex the target of Ankou.
But regardless of my perfumes,
I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
Alright, so what is it? Also, since I think this was a good idea, I'll ask you to give me some reasoning for each guess. Not a line-by-line analysis if you don't want to, but whatever made your guess occur to you.
Nota bene: all punctuation, capitalization, and spelling is intentional.
Actually It's Teth one of the Lord's servants. In Psalm 119 verse 72 it says:
The law from your mouth is more precious to me
5]than thousands of pieces of silver and gold
Just so you know, Teth isn't a person... it's the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet . That psalm is sort of an ancient version of an alphabetic acrostic.
And to Alnar: I actually have no good guesses to that riddle at the moment, but I'll get back to you when I do.
EDIT: Never mind. I have a guess (as of 17 minutes after my post, in case time becomes an issue).
I am the shroud of darkness of the King beyond the sea. I am the bridge that spans the flow of forgotten dreams. I am the one of the both darkness and night, Encircling the dwarf who once had might. Without me, neither living nor dead you shall be, Unless of silver or gold, your mouth gleams.
My guess is Charon.
He is the ferryboatman for the river Styx in Greek mythology.
You could then, I suppose, call him a sort of bridge.
Vergil describes Charon in his Aeneid, and I suppose you could call him a dark character.
Coincidentally, Charon is also a moon of Pluto, a dethroned "dwarf planet."
Obviously, you cannot pass across the Styx and into the Underworld, unless...
You can pay Charon. People were often buried with coins in or on their mouths to ensure that they would make it across the Styx.
I've got an idea for a riddle but it needs fleshing out so I'm gonna pass for now.
Here's a brainteaser to tide people over until someone comes up with a good riddle:
You have 8 marbles which are all identical in appearance. Same size, same color, same shape, etc. 7 of the marbles weigh the exact same amount but the eighth is slightly heavier. The difference in weight is too small to tell by hand, however your are equipped with a balance scale. What is the minimum number of comparisons needed to be guaranteed to identify the heavy ball. Explain your answer.
One, if you compare the first two marbles you choose and find that one is heavier, but I'm sure that's not what you meant by "guaranteed." If you're asking how many comparisons I'd need in the worst case scenario, where the heaviest marble is the last one I could choose, the answer is either 7 (if you can only compare marbles one by one) or 3 (if you're allowed to compare groups of marbles - 4 on each side, then divide the heavier group, then divide the heavier group again). Alternatively, you can very significantly increase your chances of finding the heavy marble first by placing them all into a bag with a point at the bottom, shaking it, and pulling out the bottom marble.
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You'd be surprised
Anyway, the only other guess I have at the moment is... a deck of cards. (I'm a bit tired now, so if it turns out to be right, I'll give my explanation then. I hope that's alright, and if you'd prefer I don't do that in the future, just say so.)
Also, I assume that your spelling of "it's" in the second like was unintentional, but I should probably check anyway.
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I'll categorize my stuff, to make it more manageable
Things I actually hate:
-injustice
-homicide
-infanticide
-genocide
-suicide
-cannibalism
also...
-child slavery
-child prostitution
-children being sold into prostitution by their parents (yes, that happens)
-those parents doing that to support a drug habit
-child soldier recruitment
-child mutilation (yeah, that happens too)
-general child exploitation
-the fact that there's a global trade for all of this ^
-child physical abuse
-child sexual abuse
-other domestic abuse
-drug abuse
-alcohol abuse
-death due to alcohol abuse
-when that death was not the person who was drunk
-gang violence
-animal cruelty
-rape
-violent rape (if there's a kind that's not violent)
-torture
-using religion to justify any of that ^
Things I less seriously hate:
-ignorance
-prejudice
-arrogance
-self-centeredness
-denial of reason
-hypocrisy
-politics getting in the way of the good of the people
-unjustified criticism
-unnecessary rudeness
-stubbornness
-bad fathering
-parents leading by example... to very negative things
Things I "hate," but don't actually hate:
-when someone says "life's not fair" to justify their own unfair actions
-poorly prepared corndogs
-when people can't spell to save their lives
-when people couldn't use proper grammar to save their lives
-when people swear excessively as if it'll make a point
-when people combine all three of these
-when people combine all three of these, then call you out for a typo
-internet advertising
-car dealership commercials
-political commercials
-furniture store commercials
-infomercials
-commercial airline food
-food that looks fantastic... until you bite it
-bug bites
-horribly disorganized rooms
-real (not American) Chinese food
-sushi
-not being able to identify the song that's stuck in your head
-not being able to identify that person you're talking to, when you're sure you met him before... somewhere...
-the song "Whistle," by Flo Rida
-when the radio cuts off a song before it's actually over
-when a song's lyrics don't actually mean anything...
-bronies (no offense)
-people who attempt to reestablish a belt line below their butts
-doors that have a "pull" style handle in the "push" direction
-the kid in class who asks questions like it's his job to prove the professor wrong
-when CoD players flaunt their expert knowledge of guns and military tactics
-when people hate on Taylor Swift just because they don't want to admit that she's awesome
If you actually read all that (or any of that), you deserve a smiley. Here: :D.
If you didn't read it, no taking the smiley. Don't cheat. Honor system here.
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-thought or consciousness?
-existence?
-death or an afterlife?
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Winner!
...And, for those who are curious, here's the full explanation:
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
The beginning of the Flower of Life, or at least one of its base components, is called the Seed of Life. It is said to symbolize the 7 days of creation in Jewish and Christian theology.
Where therein lies Venn's image,
...which contains many Venn Diagrams
And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
The door of the Chalice Well displays a symbol which sort of is a Venn diagram, but I hoped that anyone who looked it up would discover the term "Vesica Piscis," leading to the answer.
But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The Tripod of Life is a component of the Flower of Life, made by adding one more circle to the two forming the Vesica Piscis.
The sign of the grandest author(s),
It has stood as a symbol for the Judeo-Christian Trinity, as well as...
Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
The Wiccan (witches') Moon Goddess, and her domain: SEa, Air, and Land (an irrelevant reference to the Navy SEALs by the way)
I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
As the flower grows, another symbol can be pulled from it called the "Egg of Life," said to depict the cell cluster that we all were a few hours after conception.
And once I reach a second form,
The green might call me home, for a time.
Since the cell cluster reference was a bit more obscure in that you probably could not find it as easily by following clues, I tried to include a mini-riddle to give you the term "egg." "Green," here, refers to the inexperienced, new, or young, which once called an egg home.
I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
Just add a few more circles to complete the Flower...
You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
"Ent is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word for "giant," but in the sense most of us would recognize, popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien and marked by the capitalization of the word, it is a large animated tree. An "insensate Ent," therefore, is just a tree. The Tree of Life, as Alnar mentioned, is another component of the fully formed Flower of Life.
Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Persephone's undoing being a pomegranate, the "category" would simply be "fruit." The Fruit of Life is another component of the fully formed Flower, and the reference to Persephone was there to ensure that all you solvers would begin thinking in terms of symbolism, because, as you might have been able to tell, there's a lot of it in this riddle
Or call me that from which this unfolds,
This was included for those who know nothing of all this symbolism. The thing from which a fruit unfolds is, of course, a flower.
And annex the target of Ankou.
And if you annex (add on) the target of Ankou (Ankou is a personification of death from areas of medieval France and England, so his target would be "life"), you get "Flower Life," which is close enough to the answer that I think you could figure it out from there.
But regardless of my perfumes,
Just another reference to flowers to round things out.
I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
The Flower of Life has long been an important religious and mathematical symbol, used in cultures worldwide and in Pythagorean geometry respectively, and this line was meant to be most useful as an early guide to narrowing down the category of the answer.
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Vesica Piscis... that's good. Run with that
Also, I could tell you what I mean by "witches' goddess," but that might be a bit too much... go for one more guess, and if you don't get it then and if you want the hint, I'll give it to ya.
Not a fractal, no, but...
it is a specific pattern.
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Responses to guesses will usually contain hints
No for the moon thing, but bingo on "beginner." Though it might be more helpful to say "young," or as was mentioned below, "new."
Nopes
Aw
Yes
It is. Someone below figured it out.
RIDDLECEPTION!
Someone saw it
Also, in regard to your bolded notes: they were mostly wrong, with the exception of your interpretation of the acronym SEAL (though the goddess is not mother earth, you have her domain right... earlier in the line, I mention that she is the goddess of witches, so try to follow these two clues), and your interpretation of "green" as "new."
I'd go with "clue"
No to the dot thing, and you would be more right to say it is an "adding on" rather than a transformation.
You're getting somewhere with that, but neither one is the answer.
Aw, but it's so much more fun this way
That's not what I was going for.... and also, if anyone wants to be helpful, feel free to make a compilation of all the clues gathered so far (but be sure to spoiler it :P).
Reposting for convenience
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
Where therein lies Venn's image,
And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The sign of the grandest author(s),
Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
And once I reach a second form,
The green might call me home, for a time.
I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Or call me that from which this unfolds,
And annex the target of Ankou.
But regardless of my perfumes,
I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
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No and no... the relation to the moon may not make sense until you're closer to the answer, so don't focus too much on that for now. By the way, I like the new avatar
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Responses to people's guesses will often contain hints.
Actually, I think you've literally hit everything but what I meant by it
Yes. Though I'm not going for a symbolic meaning here, the ones that the pomegranate carry offered some very nice poetic similarity to themes of the riddle's answer. Don't consider that too much of a hint though... I didn't tell you much that you didn't already know.
Yes. Like the pomegranate, the rest of my symbols contain themes that pertain to the riddle's answer. There is one more theme that I tried to include, and finding it might help guide your thinking.
See my pomegranate references above
not quite; it's a bit more literal
different Chalice, sorry
nope. 'Green' is an adjective.
yep. maybe some rewording on the senseless tree giant thing would help your thought process, but basically, yeah.
yes.
No, but one feature of the moon does capture perhaps the most important aspect of the answer. That will not make sense until you're closer to solving, though.
I just find that it's difficult to do all the other things I want to do: the thematic language, the precise references, and in a few cases, the flexible meanings of words, when I also have to worry about rhyming
And... here's a pretty big hint, so proceed with caution.
The last two lines probably provide the most valuable information for narrowing down your potential answers, and the two that precede those could... well, actually, I'll save that one for later if nobody guesses it soon
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yes.
no, but an excellent thought.
think of it in a much less literal sense; almost as slang even
ent can mean giant, yes, in its original sense. I am referring specifically to Tolkein's ents.
yep, though, because it may help your thought process, you may want to think of the pomegranate as a whole, and not just its seeds.
good
Well, I'm glad it wasn't too easy...
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Alright, cool. I'll try to think up something new and interesting... consider this a placeholder 'till I'm done.
Alright, here it is. And I must warn you, it will require some pretty random knowledge on some infrequently thought-about subjects, or at the very least, some skill with research on the internet
I begin with the picture of every thing's beginning,
Where therein lies Venn's image,
And the ornament from the door of the Chalice.
But I grow, now within me a three-foot rests,
The sign of the grandest author(s),
Or perhaps the witches' goddess of SEAL.
I grow yet again, as all the children grow inside,
And once I reach a second form,
The green might call me home, for a time.
I'll continue to grow, and when I am full,
You could pull from me an insensate Ent,
Or the category of Persephone's undoing,
Or call me that from which this unfolds,
And annex the target of Ankou.
But regardless of my perfumes,
I am a friend of priests and numberphiles alike.
Alright, so what is it? Also, since I think this was a good idea, I'll ask you to give me some reasoning for each guess. Not a line-by-line analysis if you don't want to, but whatever made your guess occur to you.
Nota bene: all punctuation, capitalization, and spelling is intentional.
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Just so you know, Teth isn't a person... it's the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
And to Alnar: I actually have no good guesses to that riddle at the moment, but I'll get back to you when I do.
EDIT: Never mind. I have a guess (as of 17 minutes after my post, in case time becomes an issue).
I am the shroud of darkness of the King beyond the sea.
I am the bridge that spans the flow of forgotten dreams.
I am the one of the both darkness and night,
Encircling the dwarf who once had might.
Without me, neither living nor dead you shall be,
Unless of silver or gold, your mouth gleams.
My guess is Charon.
He is the ferryboatman for the river Styx in Greek mythology.
You could then, I suppose, call him a sort of bridge.
Vergil describes Charon in his Aeneid, and I suppose you could call him a dark character.
Coincidentally, Charon is also a moon of Pluto, a dethroned "dwarf planet."
Obviously, you cannot pass across the Styx and into the Underworld, unless...
You can pay Charon. People were often buried with coins in or on their mouths to ensure that they would make it across the Styx.
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One, if you compare the first two marbles you choose and find that one is heavier, but I'm sure that's not what you meant by "guaranteed." If you're asking how many comparisons I'd need in the worst case scenario, where the heaviest marble is the last one I could choose, the answer is either 7 (if you can only compare marbles one by one) or 3 (if you're allowed to compare groups of marbles - 4 on each side, then divide the heavier group, then divide the heavier group again). Alternatively, you can very significantly increase your chances of finding the heavy marble first by placing them all into a bag with a point at the bottom, shaking it, and pulling out the bottom marble.
EDIT: oh... never mind. I'm really behind >.<