The constellation
H825 Riddle: the king is surrounded by his nobles; what is this like? (The idol Bel surrounded by the priests of the god.)
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- Riddle: who first spun and when? (Eve.) · H811 entry
- Riddle: what were the clothes of Adam and Eve? (Their hair.) · H812 entry
- Riddle: who, having neither father nor mother, are dead? (Adam and Eve.) · H813 entry
- Riddle: who, having had father and mother, is not dead? (Elias.) · H814 entry
- Riddle: who, having had father and mother, is not dead like other mortals? (Lot's wife.) · H815 entry
- Riddle: who has had, here below, two names? (Jacob-Israel.) · H817 entry
- Riddle: what was the walking tomb with the living tenant? (Jonah and the whale.) · H821 entry
- Riddle: what is the land that has seen the sun only once? (The bottom of the Red Sea during the passage of the Israelites.) · H822 entry
- What is the tree that became flesh? (Moses's staff.) · H823 entry
- Riddle: what is that which has drunk water for its sustenance and eaten after its death? (Moses's staff, which became a serpent.) · H824 entry