Riddle: how many days have passed since the time of Adam?

Motif

Riddle: how many days have passed since the time of Adam?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of numbers. · view the constellation · filed as H706

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 3: The Sophic Hydrolith, or Water Stone of the Wise

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Anderson FFC XLII 227.

Within the index

Filed under Riddles of numbers.

1 finer motif beneath it

How many days have passed since the time of Adam? The seven days of the week

Filed beside it

Riddle: how many seconds in eternity?Riddle: how many stars in the heavens?Riddle: how many hairs are in the head?Riddle: how many drops in the sea. (Cf. H696.1.1.)Riddle: how many leaves are on the tree?Riddle of dates Are there more men or women in the world?

wander